I'm hoping the new Tuesday comedy block raises the ratings for all of them. This will be the first time I've watched four consecutive sitcoms since the heyday of NBC Thursdays.

Yeah, they could go the long-lost twin route, or do the Bobby Ewing "it was all a bad dream" thing. I'd also like to see more of that world to get more of Alexander and Olyphant.

Regarding Natalie Morales, I think that's just acting. Her character doesn't want to be on a TV show about a lawyer, she wants to work at a real law firm, so she has no patience for the way Devane and Stevie cater to Dean's whims (I haven't learned all the character names, and he'll always be Stevie to me).

I don't think the judge show was on the table, either, but I'd watch the hell out of it. Or, at least, small clips of it.

I kind of wish they'd kept Mitchard alive, as a plot option, so that the possibility of Dean going back to play the character again could come up in future episodes. Then again, the show within the show is so ridiculous they probably wouldn't have any trouble coming up with a way for him to return.

"No one could toss together a bunch of stories like this, with all the overlapping, time-jumping, and shocking reveals, and play it by ear."

That surprised me, too. Beth is somewhere in her early 30s, so Rick was a relatively old dad. Not as old as Grampa Simpson; the age gap between him and Homer keeps getting bigger.

The problem with Welcome to Sweden wasn't Sweden, it was who they were welcoming.

All these years, I thought he was the voice of Dale Gribble. Probably because he looks like Dale Gribble.

My admittedly oversimplified family cartoon math:

I agree with pretty much all of this. In hoisting these fake teams on us, we're losing out on the teams that really mattered - the partnerships. I suppose it wasn't always fair to those who got saddled with weak partners, but it made the show more enjoyable, to watch the partnerships develop, and I think it made for…

If it makes you feel any better, I think Burim is actually Swiss. Whatever he is, the only plausible reason he went home before Asaf is that the producers think Asaf is good television. And that shows that they don't really understand the appeal of their own show. If people want to watch trainwrecks, they can watch…

Thanks. I thought I was maybe losing my mind.

I was a bit confused when we first saw Leo in the first episode, because we were just getting introduced to this world, and his eyes kind of looked like the synths' eyes. I initially thought he was a synth, then decided he wasn't. Now I'm back to being confused.

I got the feeling that they put the pedophilia angle in there to make us sympathize with Niska - sure, she killed a guy, but he was a horrible guy.

Both here and in the review of the first episode, the reviewer refers to a scene where Mattie threatened Anita with a gun. Was that part of the AMC broadcast? I watched it twice: the original airing, and again on demand, and don't remember seeing that scene.

Stage vs. Street is a misnomer. If they're eliminating one person from each "team" every week, it's really stage vs. stage and street vs. street. The only time it will be stage vs. street is in the finale. It's not going to be a race war, it's old-fashioned segregation.