While I'm glad they finally did the Mycroft reveal and didn't have him really be a moron (which would have been severely disappointing), I was loving Sherlock's bitchiness toward him in this one.

Richie can, but I was unimpressed with Ramon. I'm with Gwen—Richie can do better (a point I'm sure Danny would have made if he wasn't distracted with Mindy).

Considering the title of next week's episode and the blurb FOX released, I suspect you're safe. (Not posting them in case anyone doesn't want to be spoiled, but for anyone else, they're available here: http://thefutoncritic.com/l… )

Was anyone else distracted by that shapely male ass in tighty whities in the opening moments of the locker room scene…and then disturbed to realize it was Morgan?

Not sure anyone will see this, but the extended version is on Hulu now. It's 10 minutes longer. More Tammy and Jamm as promised, but I think my favorite moment is Ben's reaction when Larry's the only one who says yes to moving to Chicago—Ben discovering that he liked Jerry was one of my favorite parts of the last…

I'm sorry—Mindy thinks Rick Santorum is hotter than Tim Daly?

Sepinwall's review has a comment from the director, claiming that the scene supposedly starts as nonconsensual and then becomes consensual by the end.

For what it's worth, in the world of the show it was a contest between two characters of similar political leanings, since Fitz and Sally are both Republicans (and the Democratic candidate, Reston, was a non-factor, having been exposed as a murderer a few episodes back). Which isn't to say the show isn't ridiculous…

For all its flaws, it's nice to see the show is capable of getting great guest stars. Naturally, I'm referring to Ben Lawson as Lohan's groom, whose pretty, pretty self is always welcome on my screen. (Yeah, I know—you thought I was talking about the episode's other big guest star, Flo from the Progressive ads.)

I have nothing to say about the movie, which was disappointing, but thankfully in a way that was just forgettable so it didn't affect my memories of the show.

Except Fitz's DNA wasn't tested against Jerry's. The DNA sample that Eli provided Leo was from the guy Eli shot (Abby took the hair off the corpse and put it in an envelope and gave it to Eli, who gave it to Leo, who gave it to the lab tech), and then Abby bribed the lab tech to say it was a match. Which seemed like…

I assumed Olivia figured out that it wasn't consensual based on Mellie's reaction. The pain in the speech and all the lines leading up to how she didn't want to be nailed to Big Jerry anymore seemed to make it clear she wasn't just talking about the uncertainty of Jerry's paternity. I thought Olivia knew, and Mellie…

Mellie's "I want to see him burn" speech almost made me applaud. So. Fucking. Good. In every over-the-top bit of it. It wasn't even a matter of agreeing with the sentiment—it was just so real and human in a way the rest of the show isn't, especially since it got bogged down in the bombs and terrorists.

Uh, the reason she stopped having sex with him is because his fucking father raped her. It doesn't take anything to paint her as a victim, because she WAS one. The idea that her lack of interest in sex places the blame for him cheating on HER is absurd. And no, not telling her husband "Your father raped me and I don't…

Who's saying she doesn't have blood on her hands? But her role in Daniel Douglas's death was inadvertent and not at all intended, vs. Fitz, who killed someone with his bare hands. Again, these are not the same things, and these characters are not the same in their level of wrongdoing. (Neat how you had to dodge to a…

Save your breath (or typing). MonsieurT is someone who thinks "rape victim doesn't tell her husband she was raped by her father-in-law" and "husband repeatedly cheats on his wife and is emotionally abusive toward her because she committed the sin of not having sex with him" are equal wrongs that makes them equally bad…

To each his own. The physical attack is one thing, because I know some people would never consider that appropriate any under circumstances. (To me, in the grand scheme of crimes committed on "Scandal," that seems like a ridiculously petty thing to care about.) But on point B? Yeah, different strokes and all. Because…

Well, I'm an outlier in the fact that I actually don't hate Fitz. I don't find him particularly likeable, but then I don't think I'm supposed to. He's a mess, and well, so am I, and I tend to give a lot of leeway to characters who make mistakes and bad choices, because…well, yeah. I get it. I'm not perfect either. I…

The only reason I'm watching this show is for Mellie. That's been true for a long time, but was driven home more than ever with this episode, where everything else was dull and draggy (before turning outright ridiculous), but everything revolving around Mellie remained compelling and heartwrenching. Even with the…

It's probably stupid, but I hated the retcon that Mindy didn't really love the Bill Hader character. That was such a huge thing in the pilot and how hung up on him she was and how devastated she was by his wedding. Having them say, "Oh, not really" was really lazy and made no sense.