Ruth Wilson definitely has some issues holding her accent, though it doesn't particularly bother me. But Dominic West does not — he does an excellent American accent, just as he did on The Wire for five years.

I think my favorite bit of the character work in this episode was that Sherlock, having been told by Kitty that he had correctly deduced what she wanted, didn't just smugly continue on that path. Instead, he absorbed what Joan had said, realized she was also right (about what Kitty needs, rather than wants — to be…

Just saw your response here: Bomb Girls sounds like it would be right up your alley. Canadian show about women working in a munitions factory in WWII. It's not cable-drama level good or anything (CBC production, so calibrate your expectations accordingly), but it's a lot of fun.

They started the season late because of football, so everything was new (except Big Bang, which started the season on time but on a different night to avoid football). But don't worry about commitment: they've got a very lucrative syndication deal on Elementary, so it's good for at least four seasons. In comparison…

If Lucy Liu asks you to go somewhere with her, you go. It doesn't matter where or why.

Mr Selfridge (don't let Jeremy Piven scare you off), The Bletchley Circle, or Selfie if you weren't watching it (already canceled, but apparently Hulu has picked up the rest of the unaired episodes).

I think Sherlock much prefers to have Joan pick the lock rather than just giving her a key. He knows she can do it, and he likes it when she exercises those skills.

Really? I found his American accent *terrible* and I think accounts for how wooden he was in his scenes this episode — he was trying to hard to hold onto the accent, he forgot to act.

It was a modified version. Sherlock knew it was a computer so he couldn't do the actual blind "can you tell if this is a computer or not" version. But by trying to elicit a response that ONLY a computer would give, he was working around his existing knowledge: if the answer could only be given by a computer, then…

This was legitimately one of my favorite bits of dialogue the show has ever done.

This was a great episode all around, but Jeremy's Falkland Islands reference was my favorite line of the night. He's fantastic in small doses, he's become my MVP this season.

I don't think he's the reason they're sidelining Jenny for a bit. This season began with a new police chief catching her with a bunch of weapons and her only narrowly escaping prison/more mental hospital time. And then while doing her mandated community service she went coin-crazy and almost killed said police…

Definitely fewer make the opposite leap, but Gillian Anderson has done a lot of British television (including accents).

I loved the contrasting his/her perspectives. Carrie talked about some of the obvious differences between how the characters recalled (or at least described) events, but here's a really small one that I think is particularly impressive: in Noah's memories Alison has her hair down (perceived as sexier by most men),…

I've seen this said a lot, and I just want to note that it's only true for network shows: Jada Pinkett-Smith was the lead on that Hawthorne show on TNT a few years ago.

I just said this in response to someone else, but under that narrow definition even a lot of rom com movies wouldn't qualify. You've Got Mail has a whole bunch of stuff just focused on her bookstore and grieving her mother. 10 Things I Hate About You probably spends more time on the relationship between the sisters…

That's why I don't think you can limit TV rom coms to shows that are solely about a relationship. By that definition, 30 Rock isn't a workplace comedy because Liz has a personal life. As you point out, TV will always have to deviate more from the main premise because there's more time to fill, but even rom com…

I agree with the premise that The Mindy Project — and now, maybe, the A to Z show — are sort of the purest examples of rom com on television. But this skipped over a whole lot of the most obvious examples of TV rom coms, and I don't really think it's possible to analyze the genre when you're ignoring 90% of the shows…

I think you're right. In a group without a formalized hierarchy or power-sharing system, the most forceful personalities are going to naturally end up running things. I do really love that so far it's been three women doing so — I wonder if that says something about the GR's philosophy and the types of people it…

Meg might be my favorite character on the show. I think she reacted so strongly to the GR in the first episode because she was scared of them — they had embraced the idea that "normal" life is impossible in the wake of the disappearances, and she was still desperately trying to be normal and get on with her life, her…