OK.  I laughed pretty loudly at that.

The inquisition-type structure of these meetings (I have no idea how close this matches medical realtity) could provide a skeleton for a formulatic drama centered around this procedure.

I'm having trouble reconciling the serial killer element with this strangely hierarchical cult organization.  Cults tend to engage in ego annihiliation in subserviance to the cult leader.  A cult leader (and one remote from the day-to-day operations) telling them to "find their own voice" in choice of murder just…

He's a famous crime novelist/faux-psychic widower with a vengeance/savant detective who's a bastard son of a serial killer/broken-down investigator who hides his drinking on the job.

Around this same period, I got up early enough on Saturday mornings to watch the farm report before the cartoons began.  I tell myself those "Samuelson Sez" segments balanced out the Hanna-Barbera-bleached version of the Tom and Jerry Show.

"Get your school, stay in drugs, and don't do milk!"

A lot of "The Temptations" is sudsy melodrama (for good or bad), but if I ever see that it's on, I'll wait and watch the "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" sequence.

I like how they kept Dee Dee flipping us the bird in the title.

And thank you Fox for renewing the show for the extra season.  I feel like I owe the network a viewing of one Stars In Danger: High Dive and three Gordon Ramsey shows to be named later in exchange for this decision.

"Olivia" wasn't the first episode I saw, but it was the one that hooked me.  Watching Anna Torv portray someone who starts out sure she's not in the right world, and then have that confidence gradually collapse in her, was great to watch.  So much was communicated through non-verbal cues, like other great episodes.

Eh, the demo version is competent but much less flashy, Roth's vocal chops notwithstanding.  It made me think that this is how Foreigner would have covered the song.

"Can you help me?  My doctor says I have to take A LAXATIVE!"

Is this going to be similar to an "All Good Things…" type of finale, where we revisit nearly everyone in the series via alternate timelines, and wrap it up as a tidy bow to it all?  I wouldn't object in principle, but judging just by the preview, that's a lot to cover in a two-hour finale.

Oops, my bad.

"Secondly, there’s a lot that’s very Fringe-y about Donald’s backstory and his plan. A rational man defies the laws of space and time in order to save his son? Gosh, that’s familiar."

@avclub-6aeb6fc17abee2c57714b388f6958d89:disqus His NCIS episode was on "Call of Silence" in November of 2004.  I agree that it was one of the episodes the show took a little more care about.  He was in his early 80s at the time, and it was nice to have an episode with a WWII plot that involved an actor who was…

@avclub-6aeb6fc17abee2c57714b388f6958d89:disqus His NCIS episode was on "Call of Silence" in November of 2004.  I agree that it was one of the episodes the show took a little more care about.  He was in his early 80s at the time, and it was nice to have an episode with a WWII plot that involved an actor who was…

Among a cast of observers that is costumed to be identical, Kopsa has met the challenge by standing out as a distinct character.

Among a cast of observers that is costumed to be identical, Kopsa has met the challenge by standing out as a distinct character.

The timing for jumping into that animation was perfect, after all that buildup of tension where only Walter's could save the day.