Actually now that you mention it, I should probably remove CBS from my mental shitlist, given that, indeed, it gives us TGW and this show.

Nikita was often like that, and this show even more so. As you say, better than most movies.

It is? Oh man, that is good news. It locks in the next two episodes as non-filler and mythos-heavy (i.e., will involve the larger serialized story).

French guy the hero's wife cheats with, a la Homeland.

She's stepping out on Root? ;)

Things that are soaps, some obvious, some somewhat camouflaged: Revenge, Downton Abbey (as you say), Sons of Anarchy (like Oz, it's a male soap; unlike Oz, it's not good). Mad Men is not a soap (not even to say "it's a soap but a great one"). Arrow has shed all its soap elements.

I'm up for watching Con Air pretty much always.

If they get married: Red Clay!

"Crazy hot" dissipates with every episode one watches; there's just no there there.

There is really no upside to making sweeping comments like that. You're just going to piss some people off, while achieving very little to balance it out.

Not "The Apple-Eating Man"?

She must be funny or something, whenever she is not onscreen.

I like him for being protective of her, but she's such a blank to us that it's hard to know what he's talking about there. Anyhoo, I took my cue from the dying man's reactions, and to him that seemed an accurate enough assessment, so I'll just roll with it. The actress and the role as written haven't done that bit of…

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Again, you gotta mention a season. The sweaters were a clear entry into that.

I hope it's not David Lee, at least not in a way that deprives us of him. I'm okay if it's done in such a way that, instead, it gives him his own storyline. Sort of like Will's judge-bribing (I'm sure that's not the right term) problems.

Also it's a bit of a stretch to say Nolan "saved" the publicist's marriage. He *didn't actively ruin* it. At most, I would concede that he sort of makes her stop cheating on her husband, which maybe helps their long-term prospects?

The part I don't follow is why it would matter to Emily that Daniel *never* get together with Sarah (the line was "no future": he's reconnecting to his past so Emily has to make sure that couple has no future). Until the wedding, I get, but after that? I don't see why Emily would care one way or the other.

I liked her Pan Am hair better. Her features look more severe now, mostly angles and nose.