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NOOOO to Sherlock and Joan!

Love the inclusions of The Goodbye Girl, Valley Girl (a fave 80s movie) and Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai! The Hong Kong comedy really shows off the bravura directing of To with his use of windows and reflections. His romantic comedy masterpiece though is Needing You with Andy Lau and Sammi

"What is that? Roast beef?"

I HAVE watched Psych and Supernatural. I crush Timothy Omundson so bad. :D Team Lassie forever!

I especially love how the execute the resolutions in episodes like Bella, The Female of the Species, or the recent Miss Taken. No standing around an office making accusations! Show, not tell! Otherwise, the default alas, are the scenes in the offices.

Count me in as the one who finds the "mood-character piece" a joy to behold, and I do appreciate that the writing team find intriguing issues to base a mystery/plot on (for-profit colleges? The "de-extinction" of a quagga? P vs NP? The Wikileaks thing that led us to our new Irregulars, Everyone?).

Flash Gordon by Queen for sure. Oh, the sweet, sweet guitar stylings of the Wedding March by Brian May!
("Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?"
"Of the hour? Yes…")

Without exception? There have been several exceptional STORIES in the four seasons of the show so far. Some were even intentionally left unresolved, which is refeshing strorytelling for me. I loved how episodes like Bella and the very recent Miss Taken, just to name a few, had me intrigued about motivations behind a

I sought out and watched this movie back in the day! I was already nursing a crush on Rupert Everett (thanks, Another Country!)

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking/drinking/amphetamines/sniffing glue…"

It's the writing that has failed the Iris character. Candice Patton can act fine, but like the Lana character, she's being asked to play a character that has been awkwardly inserted into the plot lines of the show, or the source of unnecessary, time-wasting artificial tension.

First Lana Lang from Smallville was the worst. Now it's Iris from The Flash.

Capturing the Friedmanns?

Yeah, I adored the first season of Sherlock (well, the two eps only), but each season loses goodwill from me as they come down the pipe. Even Season 2 had massive problems, and Season 3 made me give up.

Yes, the ambiguity really works! Like the episode Bella, I like it (and think it's really gutsy) when Elementary leaves the resolution open. And Cassie is a dyed-in-the-wool grifter… she takes advantage of every opportunity, and has prepared six stories to cover each one. A small window could've led to the bigger

This episode was about unreliable narrators, and Mina/Cassie has not shown all her cards yet. The most likely scenario is that Cassie saw an opening (maybe she knew Norman Ott? ) and began to design her grift around it.

There's a name for elephant dung coffee?

I thought this was one of the stronger episodes we've seen of the show. I liked the parallels of two fathers re-discovering their daughters, but what they see in front of them is not quite the daughter they knew back then.

Outside of reaching Kelly Clarkson/Carrie Underwood status, the best "reward" for winning on Idol (or even finishing well) is that it allows you to make a good living as a musician. No more starving artist. You may not be a superstar or an "Idol", but you get paid well for a job doing something you love.

Well, sh*t. Fallon is the new Leno indeed.