Eh, I'm an atheist who compromises daily on their atheism in order to live a normal life. It happens. Not everyone is so fortunate as to be able to wear their atheism openly, and Alicia's already gotten a lot of leeway thanks to being rich and white.

I finally got around to binge-watching The Fall S1 last night. The contrast between how Archie Panjabi's character is treated there and on TGW is…well, not very flattering to TGW to say the least. There's even a bar scene between Archie and Gillian Anderson as if to rub it right into my face :(((

I think the writers really wanted the repeat of the Peter/Alicia hallway argument and had to come up with a reason to do so. Doing it over a man Peter suspects Alicia of sleeping with is probably an intended part of the parallel. I wish they could have come up with a less clunky way, though, because supposedly smart…

I wasn't expecting Kalinda to pour her heart out to Lana, but I was expecting an evasive answer that could reveal something about her to Lana (and the audience). For example something flippant like "I'm not gay, I'm bi," or something intended to shut down the conversation, "My parents are dead." Or hell, even "Well,…

That actually isn't my cat, so I have no idea, it's just a picture I got off the Internet. (Blasphemy against the furry terror that owns me, I know.) But it *is* super adorable, isn't it?

I was holding my breath waiting to see if we'd *finally* get some insight into Kalinda's background beyond her sex life. As the saying goes I shouldn't have bothered :(

I think a parallel could be drawn here between this ep and an earlier occasion where Alicia also exploited her knowledge of Jonas Stern's dementia in order to win the case. The difference is that then she had to be reluctantly pushed into it, but in the present she just does it cheerfully (seemingly) guilt-free. She's…

Did anyone else's ears prick at the phrase "ASA bar" and then be promptly disappointed when Geneva and Matan failed to show up? It's been ages since we had a regular cast member at the SA's office again and then we see him mostly working with Castro whom most of us don't give a shit about :((( I want more ASA…

I'm pretty fond of Hannibal too but the stag/elk bit tickled me, mostly because it's not too far off from what the fans are already doing (aka Swiggity Swag the Nightmare Stag) and Hannibal is in many ways an absurd show that likes to poke fun at its own absurdity (aka every single cannibal joke made on the show).…

First: that was the sound of the point of the show sailing above your head.
Second: You just had to insert a cheap shot at atheism in there, didn't you? Alicia being an atheist is about the least objectionable thing about her.

What does it matter about Castro's motives? He's after a dangerous drug dealer who's already ordered multiple murders over the course of the show. It's something that an SA *should* be doing. As I've already said: for the purposes of doing the SA job well intent and personal character isn't as important as you think…

It was a believable answer but also a little offensive set against the backdrop of modern atheist-Christian relations, so it was confusing for me hearing that line from a character we're supposed to like. And I was more concerned with what other viewers might think the line was supposed to mean; in the review Sonia…

Next to Eli Gold, master manipulator of making people do what he wants, James Castro is like a rubber squeaky hammer that kids leave behind in the playroom when they grow up.

Except Castro isn't evil. He's a guy who will do anything to meet the ends, just like Alicia. He's going after actual "bad man" (in Alicia language) Lemond Bishop for heaven's sake while Alicia defends him. I guess he's being so aggressive to make his campaign look good (with bonus smearing of his most dangerous…

Yeah, lack of belief in God doesn't make it easier to go beyond morality, that's Alicia's thing and not an atheism thing.

Sure, comment on it when it gets too intrusive or irrelevant to the episode's plot. But it should be okay for Sonia to drop in a mention or two in the ending notes when the showrunners themselves seem to be shipping it too (and you can't replace *them* with non-shippers). I've also enjoyed Sonia's recaps so far…

The shipping, such as it was, made up one sentence out of a 1.4k word article and didn't even show up in the main body. Live with it.

Apparently Gunter is based on a true story, though:
https://twitter.com/GoodWif…

I don't know, it worked if I imagined it as a massive middle finger to Louis Canning who's just had a bunch of talent walk out together with Diane.

Trey being Bishop's top man means that he's probably the least likely to be suspected of the three, so I didn't find it *that* suspiciously convenient.