I was thinking in that scene that a potential side-effect of this episode is that if Dipper isn't back in love with Wendy now, I don't know what's wrong with him.

You know, I don't usually get seriously worked up over TV shows, but when I finished watching the teaser for this episode, I had to pause it so I could catch my breath and calm down a little.

I'm actually a lot more sympathetic towards Noah in re: the lie about Alison. It was clearly wrong to lie, but Helen put him in an impossible situation. It isn't actually reasonable to expect him not to be living with the woman he left her for, or for her kids not to be exposed to this person.

I definitely think Noah is to blame for not communicating his dissatisfaction (though I also don't think that Helen encouraged that kind of communication; she has a tendency to steamroll him, using her parents' wealth as ballast). But I can't look at the state of the marriage and think that it was a functional one…

The justification in the show is that the FBI is Brian's only source of NZT. But yes, one of my problems with the series (and one of the reasons I decided to drop it even though I found it mildly diverting) was how passive Brian was despite his supposedly immense brain power.

I was more annoyed by how bad the supposed Israeli characters' accents were. The ambassador in particular was doing a stereotypical "Jewish" accent, but Israeli-accented English sounds nothing like that (and that's ignoring the fact that many Israelis, and particularly those selected for foreign postings, have very…

I appreciated the total lack of sympathy Noah got from his father and sister over how much the affair has fucked up his life. It's clear that he came to Nina's looking for solace, and equally clear that no one in his family actually likes Helen very much (not least from the fact that this is the first time we've seen…

OK, but, in fairness, look at Noah's kids: would anyone really think that those terrors are the best thing that's ever happened to them?

I don't know. Most of the things wrong with the kids were wrong way before the affair and the divorce. But then, the marriage was basically dead long before that, so who knows.

The foils are for bleach (I guess she was getting highlights?). You leave them in for a little bit to get the shade you want, but the longer they stay in, the more brittle your hair will become.

Between this episode and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the word "paramour" got a surprising workout this Sunday.

He's been pretty weird in Noah's perspective too. Giving your buddy $50K so that you can more comfortably screw his soon-to-be ex-wife? That's not normal behavior.

I can't blame Helen for not being over the fact that Noah detonated a bomb in the middle of her life. The fact that she can't do anything about it probably makes it worse - she was going along perfectly happily, trusting him to value their shared life the same way she did, and then boom! Everything has changed and…

It's hard for me to see Joe's actions as pro-active, seeing as they only come in response to Iris's mother showing up. If she'd stayed away, he might never have told Iris the truth.

Peggy Carter isn't a superhero. Hell, the first season of Agent Carter wasn't even about dealing with superheroes, a la Agents of SHIELD. I'd class iZombie as a superhero show before Agent Carter.

It's also the first superhero property starring a woman since the MCU kicked off in 2008, and especially in the last few years when superhero TV shows became all the rage. (Agent Carter doesn't exactly count, and Jessica Jones might but Supergirl is beating it to the punch.) Given how hesitant everyone involved with…

I think the last few episodes start to find things to do with the rest of the cast, and through that humanize Walter beyond the novelty of watching Patrick Stewart play a debauched narcissist. The subplots about Rosalie's sorrow over Teddy and her general feelings of loneliness, or Jim and Celia's growing…

I recommend following Alex Hirsch on twitter. I mean, I recommend that anyway, because he's funny but doesn't tweet too much and sometimes he puts up cool art from the show, but mainly because he sends out announcements about new episodes.

If anything, I've found that both Flash and Arrow get worse and less interesting when they climb down the comics rabbit hole. I don't care that such-and-such a character is destined to be such-and-such a superhero, and I certainly don't care when a show namechecks some comics event. If you can find a way to make…

It's possible that the later seasons were so terrible and unending that my mind made them seem longer than they actually were.