I don't really understand any of that gambling stuff either, but the basic gist of it is that as far as the house (or the bookmakers) go, gambling isn't really gambling. They should evaluate the odds of each side winning in such a way that the amount of bets they take on each result is commensurate to the risk of…

An F strikes me as extreme, but I agree that Major's downward spiral over the last few episodes was a cheat. You can explain it to a certain extent - kidnapping people with no plan as to how you're going to let them out, and making their families think they're dead, is still pretty bad, and even apart from that he…

I think this episode is even implying that with Liv and Major's sunny but unconvincing assurances that they can manage without a full sex life. They want to believe that everything will be OK because they're together now, but their relationship is probably unsustainable, and they both have huge issues that they're…

Also, last week we saw him identify someone as a zombie, and then leave him unharmed when he saw him with his family.

The show has been suspiciously vague about Mateo Sr., and particularly the circumstances of his death. We don't even know when he died - I think it's been established that the already wasn't around when Xo got pregnant with Jane, and I've been assuming that her decision to have a baby was a reaction to that loss, but…

So I think I'm going to drop Supergirl. It's not bad, but it doesn't seem to be aiming for anything more than being another The Flash, this time with a heroine. And you know, I'm already watching The Flash, which has characters that I like better than the ones on Supergirl, and which I'm sort of starting to lose…

I'm not sure he has the option to take them back, seeing as he's legally dead and signed the company over to her before he "died." Mind you, Felicity is proving to be almost as bad a CEO as Oliver was, so I'm not sure how much longer she's going to have all that money and the crazy-haired sidekicks.

They did look at her. That is precisely what happened. They looked at her, and not at her skill as an actress or at her non-Hollywood-standard beauty, and this is the result.

Is she the child who hugs Alfred before he goes to battle? She's a bit young now, but the show hasn't been shy about skipping long periods of time until now.

I didn't even like Rogue Nation that much, but Spectre makes it look like a masterpiece. Especially considering that they were basically telling the same story.

I think there's probably a cluster of reasons - he married her in a whirlwind in Paris and she doesn't fit in his life in New York, he's worried that she won't help his career advancement, and yes, he probably doesn't truly love her (I don't think he loved anyone until Cornelia). But mainly I think the issue is that…

From a pragmatic standpoint, Cleary and Harriet should get married because she needs a situation and the only way to respectably set up a household with him is to marry him. But I also think they're well suited. He's clearly smitten with her, and he respects her intelligence and nerve. I also think they bring out…

I was concerned last week that the show would make Opal a gold-digger, and that might still be her primary intention towards Algie, but damn if she isn't fantastic. If nothing else, I think this show has really suffered from only having one black main character (and the ones it did feature were clearly people whom…

I don't know how fair it is to call the eugenics plot ridiculous given that this stuff was really going on, and did lead to the sterilization of thousands of people. It may be a bad choice to make one character on this show the receptacle of all forms of racism (I might have liked the show better when it allowed…

My take on the non-issue of Sherlock's relapse in this episode is that the blow-up is yet to come. Sherlock clearly expects Joan, Gregson, and everyone else in his life to be disappointed and angry, and instead at every turn he finds compassion and understanding. Even Agent McNally is telling him to take care of…

Something that I really wish this show would remember is that in the original stories, Holmes very rarely took cases from the police. It would be totally possible for Sherlock and Joan to built a thriving detective practice by working for private clients, and still keep Gregson and Bell on the show for when those…

I've seen some criticism of AA along those lines (no personal experience with the program, this is just stuff I've read). I've also seen people say that the program's insistence that one drink is as bad as a binge can be counter-productive - people slip up, feel like they might as well go whole hog since they've…

I think it's definitely a problem with the show that Liv is its most reactive character, and that she's been left out of most of the ongoing storylines. But I also see how that makes sense for what the show is trying to be. The one thing iZombie doesn't want Liv to be is a zombie slayer - in fact it's given Major a…

Actually, one of the things I like about iZombie is how much it avoids the major tropes of the CW formula. Its characters are not overgrown teenagers and, while they often mess up royally, they do so in adult ways, and deal with their mistakes similarlty.

Liv has changed her life in such a way as to constantly bring her into contact with people and places from the lives of the people whose brains she ingests. When she asks Lowell how he couldn't have known that the brains he got from Blaine were from children, he replies that he hasn't changed his lifestyle, so there…