Yes! (Unless he was made into dog food… A little too soon for that.)

For someone quick to accuse the writers of "silly writing", what was this supposed to mean?:

Could be marked cards. But it wasn't explained. Samson couldn't understand the first round that he lost, spluttering "But, it can't be be" (Gregson.mildly: "It can't be what?"). I figured that Gregson had got to the deck of cards, removed some of Samson's marks, replaced them with his own on other cards, beat him at…

But she had toast named for her - that's better. And a dessert.

Sarah?

Still no review of Top Chef on Wednesday?

So did I.

Everyone is saying "There are no answers". But there was *one* big answer in the final episode, even if it opens more questions. To the question "When did all this start, and what started it?" the answer(s) seem to be "35 years ago", "when the old dam broke and people were killed". There was one accusation from that…

Yes, OK, I'm sure that's what Sonia meant, and nobody's disagreeing
here. I just wouldn't myself dignify this sort of thing with the term
"writing" which means, you know, writing, even if it does involve some of those things that writers and producers also do before and after actually writing.

"The writing on this episode is flawed, and that means the whole episode falls flat."

Yes, this is totally implausible. I can't, at this point, imagine how they're going to explain this - they seem to have a disregard for the very idea of democratic European governments that borders on contempt or at least wilful ignorance of the audience. So nowadays I just keep hoping they stay away from this…

Especially apposite because Wendell Pierce, the actor playing Antoine, fakes playing the trombone in every scene in Treme where we see him "playing" it. But he does it right, and is convincing, because this show, unlike the movie within the show, spent the time to teach him how to do it properly. Respect for art and…

I was just joking by taking literally your previous comment which has a typo.

I doubt he knows you exist.

"Nick"? Nick figured it out just fine.

Ah. I wondered about that. Last year you never seemed to get screeners (there were always people wondering about the "late posting".) As I live in California, with viewing 3 hours later than NY, I'm never sure whether a review a few hours later (as opposed to being already up when I've finished watching the episode)…

No. We've been through this last year. They mean real European royal families that have lost their power. They think we're stupid enough to believe that they'd be up to nonsense like this. They don't think we'll even know about the many countries that keep their royals as figurehead constitutional monarchs (aside from…

Lineage, genetic. It's what Grimm is all about. Not switching bodies.

Not necessarily. He seems to be a sort of Wesen himself - did a real woge - so they may decide to tell him what he is and sequester him every December. Or something. Who knows? But it does get him out of Nick's responsibility, yes, which seems to be the main point. It will also impress the council that a Grimm is…

I enjoyed the barbarity of the character: it had the true flavor of a real Grimm fairy tale, unvarnished by prettifying sentimentality.