I think you need a bit of style to be able to support opening credits, and none of those shows really have that (I like them, but it's just not what they are). Mind you, I've always been really impressed that Elementary took the time to make opening credits, and to make them distinctive and interesting. It was the…

Season 2 was an improvement (though I didn't end up loving it quite as much as a lot of other people did). But it still never reached the heights of the title sequence, because let's be honest, what could?

So two actors playing a twentyish character's parents have the same birthday… and an age difference of, what, twenty years?

Yes. That's exactly my point. We have no idea why Frank agreed to kill Lila when Sam asked him to.

And if your boss - I'm sorry, your boss's husband, whose marriage to her is on the rocks - told you to kill his mistress, you'd just do it?

The problem with that last scene, with Frank and Laurel's relationship, and with Frank in general, is that we still, more than half a season after finding out about it, have no idea why he killed Lila. This is a man who squeezed the life out of a young girl with his bare hands, a woman who was a total stranger to…

Well, it took nearly a year, but I finally managed to get that theme song out of my head. And three seconds of this trailer was enough to infect me all over again. Damn, that is one effective song.

Mind you, very few hotels are OK with people having wild parties or playing music at all hours in their rooms. Airbnb has its own host of problems (the insurance point, which is raised in this episode, is an important one - there was a much-discussed article a few weeks ago by a woman whose father died in an accident…

so amenable—to his displeasure, I think—to various forms of social conservatism

Yes, one of the things Jake never says in response to Al, which you'd think would be on his mind, is that if he dies in the past, the whole game is over, and the world will be stuck with whatever future he created. And given the kind of mission he's taking on, the dangers he would face would be far greater than just…

I'm hoping that's what the show is going for, though people who have read the book have suggested that it takes Al's views about the benefit of saving Kennedy pretty seriously. That may not be something the show decides to stick with, however.

I think there's an argument to be made that if you changed the outcome of the 2000 election - which might be as easy as challenging the butterfly ballot in one Florida county - you could also prevent 9/11, because Gore might not have ignored the FBI's warnings the way Bush did. At the very least, it would be worth a…

There was a Quantum Leap episode where Sam leaps into Oswald, Al is obsessed with using the leap to prove that there was a vast conspiracy, and they're both wondering if Sam's purpose is to prevent the assassination. And QL was about the most 80s show you could imagine. I think it was around that time that young…

I was actually 100% on Stan's side. I mean, yes, it's not great that he was willing to sabotage everyone's attempt to save the world, including being so petty as to refuse to hold Ford's hand. But I just find Ford so unsympathetic that it's hard for me to condemn Stan's behavior. It's not just that he's ultimately…

I think it was the series review that pointed out the massive plot hole that Jake could just go to the past, kill Oswald, and then see if JFK's death had been prevented. If not, he'd go back to 1960 and reset the murder.

I thought the episode was really well done, and I'm definitely signed up for the rest of the series, but I think the last paragraph in the review gets at my core problem with this story. I'm only three years younger than Franco, and if someone offered me the chance to prevent JFK's assassination (and take three years…

That's interesting, because literally the only thing I know about Black Sails is that the main character is bisexual and was once in a polyamorous relationship. So you'd think there'd be some crossover from people who watch Outlander for the sex-positivity.

Then don't have one.

The term "partial-birth abortion" was invented by anti-choices and designed to be as inflammatory as possible. It is also used to derail the entire conversation about abortion, even though the procedure described represents a vanishingly small percentage of all abortions performed.

When Annelise is raving on pain medication, she says something about "the cleaning woman" who has a young son that she'd lie to protect. I'm guessing that's Wes's mother, since she was clearly on Annelise's mind in this episode. So my guess is, either Annelise paid Rose to lie about something, which she ended up…