So basically it took someone almost dying on set to prevent JJ from making Rey and Finn's character dynamic identical to Leia and Han's? Got it.

Haven't seen dialogue about love and fidelity this good since Scenes from a Marriage.

This is one of those few shows where expanding the mythos ALWAYS enriches the overall viewing experience.

No doubt about it, this show is full of Carols. The Walking Dead only has one Carol, and the rest are all just Season One Murphys.

The Blank Eyed Girls remind me of one of my favorite Rilke quotes (a poet whose works I think have inspired many of the romantic and platonic relationships in both Adventure Time and Steven Universe): "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and…

I think it's as perfect a casting choice as Patrick Stewart for Prof. X and Samuel L. Jackson for Nick Fury. It's just sad that The Good Wife always loses so many great actors whose characters are key to the long-run narrative.

"I'm sorry Alicia, but I have to leave before you even get a chance to see more than a single dimension to my character. The Walking Dead is paying more." - Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Sure the Pfeffermans hurt people but it's always because they're dealing with their own kind of hurt which was inflicted upon them by someone else or society at-large. I think this is part of the point of the flashbacks: the Pfeffermans have been dealing with loads of generational pain compounded on their own personal…

Rewatching Barrow (followed by Cornelia's) scene with Henry he looks more irritable than morally conflicted about what to do with his father. When Barrow brings up the issue of the architect, Henry's chief concern seems to be about the cost. He also says, quite forebodingly, "I'm more than happy to have less of…

"I want to make modest improvements that benefit as many people as I am capable of" would make a great campaign slogan!

I would like to hear "DO YOU KNOW THE LIFE OF THE MIND?!!!" in Mike Milligan cadence.

In this episode Peggy finally puts words to what she's really been doing all along: being instead of thinking.

She actively sought out the shoplifting case to the consternation of the bond court judge and all the other attorneys. It was a whole thing.

Sorry but that first sentence isn't true in the slightest. She spends a whole bunch of episodes - including in this season - taking cases contrary to her current firm's financial interests and those usually end up being the most interesting character studies of Saint Alicia that this show has to offer. I get that she…

Well if that truly is the case then the show needs to stop tantalizing us with the possibility that she ever might be interested in being anything more than 'an effective lawyer making good money' - which, in my opinion, would make Alicia a much more boring character than I thought I was spending the past 6 and a half…

My biggest gripe with this season is how many compelling cases and captivating subplots they've dropped before they had the time to become really interesting. Alicia in bond court was fascinating because it revealed the many ways in which the justice system Doesn't work for people who can't even afford the elevator…

Just for the record, this also happens to be the second time this season where a racially-charged case is resolved against the client's favor because a person of color was being deeply dishonest. Ugh. I really hope Monica becomes something of a series regular to help offset this awfulness. It's ironic that TGW has…

Parenting Tips from Jessie, The Best Mom in Alexandria:

Excerpt from the pilot episode of "Morgan Jones: Attorney-at-Law"

The fact that WE don't know what the hell Michonne wants any more than she does reveals the most glaring fault of this series: even many of the central characters in TWD don't have any hopes or aspirations other than to Just Survive Somehow. Here's hoping someone on this show finally takes some deathbed wisdom to…