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The Crazy Ones takes Bob Benson from us and now A to Z takes Ginsberg from us! Damn you, one-and-done comedies (well, unless A to Z absolutely shocks the world by not being one-and-done but that seems highly unlikely)!

Her earnestness has always been one of the most fascinating aspects of Betty. The way she delivers that line as if it made perfect sense was beautiful.

The big twist will, of course, be that Cutler and Lou are now lovers.

The boy from upstairs is roughly the age that Peggy's kid would be now, right? Do you think that plays a role in her relationship with him? Like he reminds her of the kid she gave up? I tend to think that she has so successfully compartmentalized that time in her life that she honestly doesn't think about it, but I

Lou's reference of Bob Dylan was quite interesting because this was one year before Dylan wrote the immortal lines:

Question for the group - do you think Stan, on the whole, is a good person? I used to think definitely yes, but now I think I am just blinded by how witty he is and he might actually just be a different kind of jerk.

Lou and Scout's Honor reminded me of Buzz Hickey's Jim the Duck and that just made me feel sad about Community being canceled.

Weiner's obsession with Pare is just kind of creepy. Now a threesome? Ugh.

With pictures of Sara in the Canary outfit without the mask on and big question marks written on them. "I'm getting so close to figuring this out!"

I'm a bit disappointed that Sara has officially revealed herself to Laurel because I wanted some more shots of Laurel trying to figure out Sara's identity. "Is that my sister? Hmmm…I dunno….It is true that Oliver is the Arrow. And Sara has all of those injuries. Hmmmm…I just can't tell for sure….think, Laurel, THINK!"

I found the "Amy Goes Deep" a bit disappointing, if only because it specifically was NOT her going deep into conversation. It was all just surface stuff. It was amusing enough, but she has such great chemistry with all four of those guys that I would have preferred her to just pick one of them (or Rachel Feinstein)

Oh yeah, that cop, Officer Harris, (the one attacked with the razor) DID die. They addressed his death. His partner was so shaken up by his death that he quits being a cop the next episode to become a cabinet maker.

Ha! Exactly.

I'm a big enough Travanti fan that I actually have him on my Tivo Wish list to auto-record anything he's in. The results are….interesting (his turn on Criminal Minds was pretty rough).

Well, part of that is the ages of the actors during the run. The show lasted seven seasons, ya know? That's the majority of the "prime" years for most of those actors. That said, Marinaro had a successful run on Sisters. Weitz has worked consistently. Haid is a big-time director now (as is BettyThomas).

One sad thing that I can't help but think about when I think about HSB is how three of the cast members died of cancer either during the run or soon after the show ended. Michael Conrad died of urethral cancer in 1983 and in 1990 we lost both Kiel Martin (J.D) to lung cancer and Rene Enriquez (Calletano) to pancreatic

I went with Selleck mostly because he actually won an Emmy during the heart of the whole HSB/St. Elsewhere era, which was a hell of a feat for an actor to pull off at the time with Travanti, Flanders and Daniels to deal with (then again, as shown by Jeff Daniels' inexplicable win in a loaded category last year,

Yep. That's why Todd's doing the review today.

Right? As soon as they didn't have to deal with him on a regular basis they suddenly gave him all this character development. I understand the idea, though, that they felt that they couldn't very well promote the guy and still have him as a regular on the show (as the show was always going to be about Hill Street) but