This was why the Magnuson plot didn't make sense—he was way too dangerous for the goverment to let him live, especially when he's going after folks higher up than Mycroft.

If you tally up good vs. bad eps., this show really only had five terrific ones out of thirteen. Those five were strong enough to cement SHERLOCK's rep.—and inspire hope those were the first of many. No dice, unfortunately.

It's really a shame the show couldn't have at least delivered a few more case-oriented corkers like A STUDY IN PINK and THE GREAT GAME.

A good part of the problem is that too much contemporary TV drama is written to produce Twitter-worthy moments/scenes over coherence. That style burns through a lot of plot arguably before it should and it eventually collapses into incoherence and confusion, as shows like EMPIRE, SCANDAL, and REVENGE have proved.

Proof these guys are repeating themselves to diminishing effect. They were able to get away with Mycroft giving up secrets to Moriarty before because we were led to believe that was Mycroft and Sherlock's plot to nail him. But this manuever this time made no sense at all.

More like overcooked…

And they make her a subsidiary of Moriarty, Ltd, which is even worse. Though SHERLOCK pulls this off better than the Downey franchise—bleccchh….

As does Stanley Donen's ARABESQUE.

I had to force myself to finish this, which put it on Abominable Bride" level bad.

Cue "You're Havin' My Baby" as a trope that keeps popping up after beung staked, shot, beheaded, burned, and nuked. :p

And I went to a private school where a girl pulled a similar trick on her friend—though it involved a sanitary napkin and was a one-on-one attack.

Yep. The mean girls in Carrie scapegoated her for their own feelings of being "dirty," "ugly," and awkward. It was (and is) a way to establish hierarchy and keep people in line.

BSD was proof positive that Keanu is only convincing playing certain periods—and the 19th century was not one of them.

Hmm, one could just Airbnb it. ;)

Seriously. Verbinski in general doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves for being as good as he is. He has the same problem Curtis Hansen had—was good at lots of genres but never got the hype he should have.

His Jack Vincennes was right dashing, even with the showboating cop problem.

Yeah, her performance really should put Eva Galli on AFI's list of great movie villains. :) The movie's look is gorgeous too—charming New England town that gets plunged into a hellish deep freeze. Agreed that it's worth watching despite its mistakes—I always catch it when it's rerun.

"What shall I say when my lord comes a calling? What shall I say when
he knocks on my door? What shall I say when his feet enter softly?
Leaving the marks of his grave on my floor."

It would look like any given Trump supporter's text. ;)

Eheheheh. My mom and I were riffing that anyone who chooses to live near a graveyard or an abandoned hospital is pretty much asking for it. Then it occurred to me that the on-campus house I lived in senior year was right across the street from the university's memorial graveyard.