The first few episodes were, at least. I'm not sure how the rest were done. Really really looking forward to this. Loved last season, happy it's back in m life.

What constitutes dismal ratings on "Lifetime"?

As tedious as the cases of the week are, I find I agree with this. I'm far more interested in the scenes with Hodiak and his son/his hippy partner/the black panthers than I am in the Manson stuff.

Has anyone bothered to binge-finish this? I'll probably half-watch the rest in the same way I've half-watched the past couple episodes (cooking while waiting for Hannibal to start, with the TV occasionally on mute), and nothing about it is pulling me along even through the individual episode. I can't imagine sitting…

Happy to see this back, though I think I miss DVD Commentary Tracks of the Damned more.

"The Wire" was pessimistic about institutions but fairly optimistic about what human beings could do for each other on a basic level, if they bothered to give a damn at the right time. I never felt, watching "The Wire," like it was a particularly nihilistic show, as bleak as it sometimes was. "Game of Thrones" tends…

I think they rein it in, but I think they rein it in for things the show has very little interest in ever doing. I've been watching the Season 2 DVDs with the commentary tracks on lately, and on one of them Bryan Fuller talks about what they could and couldn't show (answer: they couldn't show much at all) when Alana…

I figure the antagonist this year is going to be "Litchfield closing/bureacracy" (I've only seen the first ep), which is just fine by me.

I can't imagine it'd be that much different. I already think it's the goriest show on TV, cable or otherwise. What it gets away with astounds me.

Van Damn is the only 'character' on this show I'm able to name without resorting to Google.

I'm so happy to see him in a role where he's not playing Jafar or a Jafar-equivalent (or whatever he was in that Sinbad show). This is better material than he's had in years…which is probably damning with faint praise, but I'll still take it.

So, so happy this is back.

It's in the top 3 easily. I think it, "Walkabout," and "The Constant" throw down in the fighting pits for best most days. I can't decide which is the 'best' among them, and there are individual episodes I enjoy more in a given moment, but I probably wouldn't try to argue any of the others is better than those.

I've been looking forward to Crazy Bearded Jack all through these recaps. Such a great, strange image throughout the episode with an amazing pay-off. "WE HAVE TO GO BACK!" is probably my favorite scene of the show since the Season 2 opener with the Mama Cass song, though Not Penny's Boat is also up there.

I have zero awareness of what people did or didn't know about Dominic Monaghan leaving the show back when this first aired. I wasn't really following "Lost" online at the time (I didn't go into that particular vortex until Season 4). So, at the time, I really and truly did not think they'd ever kill Charlie. This…

I particularly remember really liking the Michael/Maria stuff as a teenage girl. Even though, even at that age, I couldn't QUITE deny the fact that the guy playing Michael was not the greatest actor in all of thespiandom.

Oh, "Roswell." I remember liking it despite how convoluted parts of it became. Though I haven't watched it in years, and I suspect my memories of it have been overly kind.

Orlando Bloom: More Plausibly Human Than Ashton Kutcher

"Avengers" I could've handled. When I went to see it this weekend, the local IMAX was showing f'ing "Tomorowland."

I don't mind the casting, but I sorta wish it had been followed through to the logical conclusion of also casting a black actress as Sue Storm once it was decided they wanted Michael B. Jordan in the role.