This episode didn't really work for me. It felt a lot like the writers were putting all the genies that the first 10 episodes released back into their bottles without making use of any of the interesting aspects of the show they'd drawn out. I was particularly flummoxed by the lightning quick reconciliation between…

I'm not surprised no one on the AV Club listens to it, but I feel like I have to mention the Giant Bombcast. It's the purest expression of what Giant Bomb does so well to my mind, and that's create a strange and often very funny combination of criticism and reality show. Giant Bomb's a site that gets better and better…

I think it works fine, it's just that the show chooses to prime you with the Chinatown clip so you're in the mindset of cynicism while you're watching the optimistic clip of a man changing. That way it's less of a satire of the previous scene and more of a free association of the two moods that still leaves you…

Barney's labored, constantly shifting joke telling reminded me a whole lot of a monologue/joke The Doctor, specifically Matt Smith's but that might be because he's most recent in my mind, might give.

It seems like Revenge is settling into this weird groove where it goes balls to the wall crazy plot wise one week and then backs off into a calmer, table setting episode the next. I'd be fine with that if I thought the character stuff were better executed, but there's just way too much dead space here. I'm hopeful…

I think that piece of needlework was in Bohannon's coat, not Johnson's things. He took off the coat and then placed it on the bed and that's where he pulled the needlework from.

I've been assuming that Ruby is going to end up being Rose Red, not Little Red Riding Hood. Makes more sense to me that the character they're developing will end up as Emma's aunt rather than a random other fairy tale character with no direct relation to her.

I can buy that, I think what we're seeing now is him pulling away because he tried opening up and became scared. Either way I think he's almost actively distancing himself from the group nearly every week in one way or another.

I think what has been causing the sense of incompleteness for a lot of these early season episodes is exactly what you keep coming back to, this season is building to something, specifically, a larger storyline about Jeff. I think he's the element that ties this episode together in that he's absenting himself from the…

I laugh a lot at the moment in the first scene where Sam shrugs at the kid like he's agreeing with him when he gets indignant over him not giving a "vet" a drink. That entire first sequence is just so perfect, it's a scene that's about one character lying to the other and the second character having fun at the other's…

My assumption based on Nolan's final conversation with Emily was that he gave Tyler the info on Conrad as part of the having sex with him deal, but that it's not exactly what Tyler thinks it is. That way Nolan can continue the arrangement but when Tyler tries to act on the info he's been given he'll create his own…

My favorite/worst part of this episode was the revelation that's Jim's go to move for interrogation is being a sarcastic asshole who tells his suspect literally everything he thinks they did.

I wanted to mention just how much I loved the depiction of the ghosts disappearing. Carrie mentioned it slightly in the review, but I felt it deserved a more specific bit of praise as I thought it was just a beautifully effective way to depict the departing ghosts. The quick, simple way they disappeared around the…

I'm pretty genuinely surprised you thought this was a step up for the series. The things it tried to do family wise might have been a positive if they showed even the slightest hint of an attempt to actually engage with the drama they were creating. Maddy's storyline could have dealt with her relationship with her…

This episode ended up bugging me quite a bit. The jump in time immediately set me on edge and proved to be totally unnecessary and I felt that most of the plot just accelerated far too quickly. I would have liked a few more episodes to build up to Colette breaking down about her lost family, instead we got all the…

That's a specious way of looking at it. Knowing revenge is coming doesn't mean it has to be uninteresting and that's my problem with the show so far, it's terribly uninteresting. It's like a long car trip through boring countryside, I'm excited to get where we're going but there's nothing interesting to look at along…

The problem I had with it is that there's no surprise to it as of yet. A random guest star pops up and we know that Emily's going to be taking them down. In other procedurals there's at least mystery to who did something or why but in Revenge there's no hiding that Emily's going after someone who hurt her father and…

I'm surprised people liked this so much. Pretty much everything that seemed to work for other folks completely didn't work for me. I think the revenge procedural part of the show is an inherently horrible idea for one. I can understand a crime of the week show, I can't understand Revenge just popping up someone each…

I can't say I thought this episode was notably better or worse than the pilot, even if the second half of the pilot was better than the first half it just wasn't funny, but yes, I'm definitely worried about the long term prospects of this show. Also to get totally anal retentive Cheers didn't leave the bar at all…

Yeah, I'm pretty flummoxed by folks who are saying they enjoyed Faye, she was one of the biggest stumbling blocks for me in this pilot. Totally unsympathetic and not anywhere near enough fun to justify it. Then at the end she completely turns from being out of control to worried about Diana's safety for no real…