Admittedly I bailed on the show one episode into this season (after spending the entire last one wishing there were some way I could reach through the tv screen and throat-punch every single character in it), but I always come back here when I see that an episode has gotten a "D" review just to vicariously relive the…

That Poster Every Douchebag You Knew in College Had on His Dorm-Room Wall, You Know, the One With the Two Babes in American Flag Bikinis on the Hood of a Ferrari: The Movie

It really was unfair: Tara unceremoniously gets the hook after finally becoming a bearable character, while her awful, awful mother hangs around uselessly for the whole damn season.

Donaldson's in interesting, if somewhat sad case: he did a couple of interesting pictures in New Zealand (Smash Palace and Sleeping Dogs — the latter of which I just watched recently and which I can unreservedly recommend) that suggested he might have a real future, but then went to Hollywood and turned into one of…

I quite liked a lot of his early ones, like The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, and The Big Nowhere, but I more or less gave up on him after White Jazz. I could see and even appreciate what he was trying to do, specifically in the context of traditional noir writing, taking an already heavily stylized form and…

It was less an actual movie and more a more a greatest-hits reel of action movie tropes. Which was fine by me.

Confession: I was an extra on this film. I was one of the Waltzing Commuters in the Grand Central Station scene, although I was pretty far in the background and have never been able to spot myself onscreen. I did get a free box lunch and a dance lesson out of it, though, so there's that.

Yeah, Cash is a real find. Every episode I'm amazed at just how fucking adorable she makes being a borderline sociopath look.

I did like the shot of the staff arriving at the hospital at the beginning of the episode: Cornelia being helped out of her carriage by her servants, followed by Edwards walking from the subway and Nurse Elkins on her bike, past the junior physicians pausing to finish a smoke, and finally ending up on Thackery…

I'd be curious as to whether the decision to make Gene and Betty such a major part of this season was more a matter of scheduling than anything else. Not that I don't enjoy their scenes or the actors playing them (along the the added bonus of being reminded how charming Sarah Silverman can be in a low-key dramatic…

Hmmm. Penny Dreadful is the most torrented show in Maine? You'd think Stephen King could afford cable..

Hey, a zombie Aubrey Plaza is better than no Aubrey Plaza at all, I guess.

I'm feeling nostalgic for those halcyon days when I first started typing this sentence. Life had so much promise then.

I wonder if the last S1 episode was shot before the show was picked up for a second season? The "I can't live without you" line might have seemed like the right note to go out on if it looked like it might not be renewed, but since it was, it now feels retrospectively more awkward and out of place than it otherwise…

I particularly liked the way she ostentatiously pulled out the stopwatch: "Okay, you wanna say this is research and not an affair, well, I'll fucking well treat it like it is, then!"

Elijah Mundo's first assignment: catching that English hacker chick who shut down the whole Internet the other night on The Strain.

Fuck, I'd trust the chuckleheads from Scrubs before I'd trust these assholes.

"Hermanos! The Devil has built a robot! Andale!"

"Congratulations on completing the University of Notre Dame MD program. Here's your diploma … and here's your tragic backstory."

It's so weird watching this show right after Married, because the leads—to me at least—seem so similar. I'm half convinced that when they were casting this, the producer actually must've said something like, "Get me a Judy Greer type and an English Nat Faxon!"