As a Briton, I assume that mistake is similar to the one most Brits make when someone speaks with a posh voice. Or its 'salt of the earth' equivalent, where someone with a proletarian accent speaks 'common sense'.

Please bring back the Elementary reviews!

I too would really, really like it if AVClub would review Elementary again, particularly if they get Genevieve back.

Bon Iver remains too out-there for me, I think. It's the kind of music where I can't remember how it goes even as I'm listening to it.

Unjump my shark…

Someone needs to give Laura Linney a role in one of those Oscar movies so she can get her Oscar movie Oscar before it's too late.

Granted its been decades since I saw it, but what made the miniseries' Pennywise frightening was Tim Curry's unhinged camp. He felt unpredictable. The form isn't particularly menacing (though clowns are definitely creepy, especially with fangs…), it's what he represents, the sense of what is lying underneath.

It'll probably mean the end of the Briton as the sophisticated, smart character, with English actors in particular now only able to get roles which involve walking into a scene sans trousers, protesting unconvincingly that there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for their being half-dressed.

My best guess is, for whatever reason, Logan started (even finished) writing the third season thinking he had a fourth to work into. He is on record from a few years back saying he had three seasons in mind, but I think at some point that changed. A lot of this season felt like it was looking to stretch its legs into…

I like the twist, but I wish it had been prepared for with Vanessa doing some Mother of Evil stuff.

Having slept on it, and read through many of the comments here - insightful and thoughtful and funny as always - I've come to see:

Just done watching it. It's Penny Dreadful, so it's brilliant. But it's also a mess.

Thank goodness Iwan Rheon's torturous mugging-and-gurning performance has gone.

Off on his way to see just what is west of Westeros.

I was thinking that. He may not figure what's going on til the first arrow, but after that surely it's all about the zig-zag and/or dive to the ground to your side, and checking back over your shoulder. Or at least Jon could have shouted something.

It would be rude not to.

While I have concerns about the structural integrity of dead horses when used as club-like weapons by a giant, that would be something to see.

Here's hopin'!

Why didn't they take the time to make Wun Wun a huge fucking scythe or something? Maybe something shaped like a hockey stick or croquet mallet?

Someone should have a crack at remaking/redoing Ghostwatch for the US, and this time let Stephen Volk carry out his idea of broadcasting noises that can't be heard by viewers but would get the attention of their dogs and cats.