The cricket thing was also a lie, he said the games start at 4am and he gets up just before 6am on the tape. Plus it probably, even with someone as high-strung as Allison, wouldn't be something to hide if he wanted to get up early and watch cricket - particularly if he'd ever mentioned an interest.

Neolution is REAL!

Winner: John Cazale

An actual human being has watched Army Wives?

"The actor who plays Art called in sick today and you're filling in, get over to makeup Tatiana."

Frankly, having the adopted girl who can have children and is the last to discover she's a clone is such a blatant feint toward the reveal that she's the original that I can only hope they've either got something more interesting planned or figure out a really compelling way to make up for going the obvious route.

Rest in peace, Rowan. We'll miss you.

This aired a week ago in Pirate Standard Time.

That's so fucking perfect.

Television, it knows what we want!

Ok whatever, but I am NOT calling you Dad.

Same reason network miniseries are dead - too expensive to buy the rights to/make and promote for such limited airtime.  A series has an automatic returning audience you don't need to spend ad dollars bringing back each week/season, making it easier to maximize return on advertising dollar investment.

It's rare, but the great 22 episode season is one of network TV's little miracles, like Parks and Rec season 2, or Friday Night Lights season 1. 

Most of which could scale up to the 30 episode season model more easily than live-action shows.

No, but keep an eye out for Duck Dynasty Dynasty, where the cast members from Dynasty who need to do reality TV for money appear as the panel on the Duck Dynasty aftershow.

I've watched it happen week by week, but seeing it compared like that really hits home that death is coming for the networks.  I recall discussions on TV podcasts about how no network could justify letting any show dip as low as a 2.0 in the demo.  That American Idol has shed so much of the demo between those two…

I'm thinking a cop who planted a cellphone to cover up his stoned partner's accidental murder (barring future twists, of course) might possibly cut a few procedural corners.

I think what bothers me most about the inclusion of this sort of content in a number of episodes this season is that instead of using the increased freedom allowed by changing network standards to refresh the show they're just indifferently churning this type of material through the same sloppy and lazy joke…

I'm pretty sure that's what happened, since it'd be a weird detail/effort for the show to put in for something as spectacularly incidental as that.  There's absolutely a skin flap there that would've required extra effects work where a tiny bit of blood would do the same job.

I was a little disappointed that they didn't go with an alcohol based hand sanitizer so that she could get out of it by appearing to be a bit drunk.  That said, the fact that most of her solutions were "street-smarts" over "special agent" felt like a strength even if they aren't exactly mindblowingly creative.  There…