I looked at it as simply Will starting to suspect everything as a possible bug, or something tracking his actions, even a memento from his now dead Father-in-Law. What I really liked about it was that it simply left it at the end of the episode as a suspicion. I'd actually prefer if we never come back to the owl as an…

The Crew
I think it's a little unfair to point out David's gut as being a sign of a degrading budget since my assumption was that the gut was supposed to be crappy since it's just something a regular person got to trick Bob into having the intervention. Had there been no mention of the gut being a fake during the…

The second I saw it I was just wondering whether it would be a plot point or just that the actress happened to have that tattoo. It should have been obvious that it was the former since it was pretty clearly displayed in the shot and probably would have been pretty easy to shoot around.

Pretty
Regardless of what you think of the show's plot, it would be hard to deny just how well Rubicon is shot. You're dead on about that two shot with Will and Maggie, that was an extremely striking image that just kept going and going as the actors slowly pulled away from each other and then got closer again.

I've got about $3.26 in loose change. You think that'll cover it?

I completely forgot that Noel mentioned that, luckily I remember having that exact reaction to the shot while watching the episode so I'm totally not copying him.

The Fight
I think it's also worth bringing up how the actual fight between Tony and Carmela is shot. If memory serves the sequence is shot with a lot of shaky cam in fairly tight shots, and then suddenly it cuts out for a fairly extended, completely stable, long shot of the den. It's a beautiful switch that pulls the…

Oddly enough I ended up liking Forever a lot more than I remembered it, mostly because my meory pegged it as being outright bad. I was proven wrong, but mostly by being pleasently surprised that the episode was at least part good. Dawn's part strained credibility and wasn't particularly exciting, pretty much for all…

I think you're essentially right that the concept doesn't ramp up, but the way that David plays it does. He slowly gets more and more desperate and has more and more trouble focusing so while the writing isn't necessarily leading to a huge climax his performance is. And hot damn what a performance it is.

Reasonable enough, I just love the movie too much to let it go unmentioned.

The Tarnished Angels
I resisted Sirk at first, I believe the first film of his I saw was Written on The Wind and I just couldn't get in the mindset. But later on I dove back in and I'm now an unabashed fan.

From my last viewing of the series I felt that Season 5 was the worst season of the show pretty much precisely because of this upcoming stretch of episodes. I remember it being a whole bunch of bland episodes without much going on. I've been looking forward to revisitng them to see if I was right or being too hard on…

I fele obliged to mention that obviously stuff like "Smile Time" comes close to Buffy's heights but there are fewer single episodes that really hit in Angel and more really strong extended character work/storylines.

I've always felt that Angel did consistency better than Buffy but rarely reached the high points that Buffy did, there's no "Once More With Feeling." "Conversations With Dead People," or "The Body" in Angel's run. There are a handful of really ridiculously strong Angel episodes, I'd point to season 5 as containing…

Yes please
I'd like to see coverage of it, I mean it's the summer, I need something to read along side TV Club Classic anyway.

As Always
It's the small touches that keep shows like this interesting. The big reveals, robe lady is a psychiatric patient, "kill your neighbor," drugs in your leg implants, all felt too much like stage setting for later plot points. It's the small details that always get my brain going, whether it's the broken in…

More than anything else it just felt a little lazy to me. It was something I've seen before and I would have liked a twist on it, which was provided and I liked quite a bit. I usually don't have a problem with stuff like that, and it wasn't a big issue, but it was a little annoying to think that a show like Dollhouse…

Inverty
I was enjoying The Attic for the first half but something was bugging me for most of that time. I'm usually not one to dig too deep into things like this, but Arcane's depiction as a big, muscled black man was turning me off. I was understanding of the scary, dreamlike shadow figure that he was fitting with…