I hated this plot too. Not only did I not understand the Ann-wants-a-baby thing at all, but why in the world would she ever pick such a random and gross group of guys to be her prospective sperm donors?

Your memory is so much better than mine (and, I'm thinking, the show's writers)! Oh, that would have been the perfet callback.

I don't know… Ryan is genuinely a sweet guy. He demonstrably cares a lot about her and supports her as best he can. He's the brother of her best friend. And he's incredibly attractive.

I would love a great Dallas episode this season. The best scene she's gotten so far, IMO, is when she swooped in as Super-Mom and made George get Alex to stay and spend a night with her daughter for once. That was sweet, and I love how George and Dallas are, respectively, the perfect father and mother for each other's…

Why would she for a moment suspect that they would actually cure her son? She doesn't know they can't risk being discovered. And as others have noted, there may well have been a bomb in the clock, or a recording device that would leak state secrets to the Soviets.

This is the closest to how I read the situation. Viola wanted both her son to live AND not to betray her employers, who have apparently helped her with her son in the past (at least that's how I read her conversation with her boss), and her country. She initially refused to commit an evil act in the hope of a good…

This is the most gloriously terrifying thing I have seen.

Loretta Young is TCM's Star of the Month for January, so actually they've been doing her movies every Wednesday this past month: http://www.tcm.com/this-mon…|0/Loretta-Young-Wednesdays-in-January.html

I think the damage to the Florrick campaign is minimal. Alicia is just a spouse, not the candidate. Peter, on the other hand, has a prison conversion story, which he can toss out whenever he needs to prove his religious cred (not to mention, he has a very religiously engaged daughter, though I don't think he would…

I thought it was neither. I thought Dianne was just seeing a reflection of herself in Alicia—not feeling guilty, just remembering what it was like to suck it up and play ball all those years ago when she made partner.

I think it was meant to be a gradual reveal: first Alicia finds out about the $60k buy-in, then she discovers Cary got an offer too, and finally she finds out that she's only one of five associates who got the offer. At no point are we supposed to believe that it's solely based on her merit, but each new reveal means…

I don't remember this! But it sounds fun. Do you have an episode title for the apples?

My favorite moment of the episode, and this will sound dumb, was Fanny's freakout over the homemade candles. Way too often I get an Emily Gilmore vibe from Fanny, in that she's basically the same person just on a different side of the cultural spectrum. But Emily would have never gushed over something she liked, and…

Let me draw out the point I think you're getting at here. Juliette is a very, very dumb person. She consistently makes decisions based purely on impulse, and these decisions actively hinder her from achieving either short-term or long-term goals. Getting a divorce so that "no one will find out" makes as much sense as…

JL —> JLU was the best thing that ever happened to that show.

I wouldn't mind a DC Shorts half-hour based on the Adult Swim model of 11-minute episodes. Short seasons (6 episodes-ish?), so in a full season of TV, you could do close to 6 different series.

That's interesting! I only started watching YJ with season 2, so I figured the basics of who these folks are and what they do had already been covered. But from what you're saying, it sounds like the show is coasting more on comics-nerd-knowledge than I thought.

Totally loving the Amethyst stuff, though. I wish the shorts were longer!

I didn't like this episode as much as the reviewer did. I'm a comics fan, so I get the references, but I think at the moment YJ is little more than a parlor game in which characters/costumes/random elements from the comics are being rearranged into a more streamlined (but oh-so-self-serious) narrative/universe. Is…

The hug. To me that was the masterful moment of the entire episode. To put Sasha through all that cutesy teen romance choreography, and then throw it all away when the REALLY meaningful relationship came back into the picture… A great decision and well acted.