Nina needs to get Oleg on her side, in preparation for the inevitable moment when he discovers how her relationship w/Stan actually began.

Well-said. I can only imagine how, say, NBC would handle that scene. First they'd show Phillip actually killing him, then telling Duluth that he killed him, probably in some detail as they argue loudly at the bar, then later he'd sigh & tell Elizabeth about it, then later tell his handler, while complaining that…

My father inherited a WW1 Pickelhaube helmet from one relation, & a large red Nazi flag (black swastika in the center) from another. I've told my parents I don't care about anything else, I want those when they're gone. And I only ever knew about the flag when my dad asked me how he could sell it. I nipped that…

I've argued elsewhere in these pages that I don't think Vigilance has any military people in their ranks, because they can't shoot for shit, & their tactics seem to be no more sophisticated than "let's all run in & start shooting." Obviously they can't kill our heroes, but every time we see them, several of them get…

None of the Vigilance people have any discipline with weaponry. They just pull the trigger & spray bullets everywhere. Makes sense considering that they probably don't have any/many trained soldiers in their ranks.

He played a villain in Strike Back (2012) & it was a strange viewing experience. I have such warm feelings for the guy from BoB, but then here he is being vindictive & murderous.

May be simplistic, but as 90% of German combat deaths occurred on the eastern front (Max Hastings) it's not hard to understand why the notion persists. They paid most of the butcher's bill, even if American materials played a significant part in their effort.

Favorite moment for me was, in one of the later episodes, when Captain Crazy (being intentionally vague & non-spoilery here) took over command in battle, & proceeded to run through a bunch of Germans to bring his men back to safety. Wahlberg's voice-over on that was perfect.

On more than one occasion, Alan missed an opportunity to point out to Hatake that he didn't actually make any sacrifices. Stealing & experimenting on children doesn't actually count as sacrifice on his part.

Clearly, you did not watch A Gifted Man. Or Mob Doctor.

Don't be so hard on Hatake. He…had no choice.

No no no. Julia is pretending to be Ilaria CEO, because she knows Peter is a double agent so she's on the inside, to save Alan & his love child with Sarah, which will live forever as a conglomeration of cells in her uterus & also to bring the twins back to life by grafting the one twin's head onto the other's so…

Probably my imagination, but I got the feeling while watching that, each time she's mentioned the dragon slaying, those around her did the Viking equivalent of a sideways glance at each other. At least I didn't get the impression that anyone was tempted to say "Dragons? Tell me more!"

Folk back then saw the hand of the supernatural in pretty much every aspect of life. The show, I assume/hope, wants us to believe that Aethelstan believed he saw something, w/o the show itself asking us to believe that he actually saw something.

You're not alone. I'm perplexed by Oleg's proposition to Stan. I'd be grateful if someone could explain that.

Zoe's stuck in orbit on a space station which is slowly running out of oxygen (The 100.) And Elias is running a hospital. Leon's out there too somewhere, working the night shift.

Haven't they had Kate speak Russian on the show, even recently? Maybe my imagination. Obviously her name ain't Russian.

It may be complex enough to test Root's loyalties, though that's probably not the right word for it. Or maybe it's just that Greer's daddy didn't pay him enough attention.

I didn't write it off, it's sci-fi after all, I was never going to stop watching, but it took me a long time to get over how silly Finch's opening narration sounded to me. I thought the limp was silly, & Caviezel's whisper even more so. But the developing relationship between Reese & Carter was intriguing almost…

I thought that honorific was reserved for people who complain about accents in TV/movies. Give us an actor using a non-native accent & suddenly everyone's a linguist.