Now you're making me worry she's sharing the ex's unmarked grave, because Kalinda killed her for her plotlines.

Really? I saw him as an angry, anxious surrogate son stuck between his estranged pretend parents. There's something so childlike about Eli, he tends to absorb plotlines which ought, structurally, to belong to the kids. If only the kids were anything other than writer-ciphers. Thus, the gravitational distortion of…

She *isn't* a "conservative" hero - one of the most effective and surgically vicious counters to her was a scathing review of one of her books in the old National Review by *actual* conservative hero Whittaker Chambers. She has more in common with the Birchers, in that they both have "the abyss looks also" problems…

A sadly common genre TV convention. At least she's just a ward, and not a magically inserted Key or magic baby.

I've been happy with a lack of coins or keys so far this season, if only because Alias permanently scarred me on the subject of unending scavenger hunts and chain maguffins. Please, keep the conflicts to actual social and political interactions, and limit the fighting over tchotkes, writers!

I don't care for Rand, for the reason, external to Rand herself, that the reviewer and the show both demonstrate: her ability to evoke spontaneous Two Minute Hates from random strangers. I never read Rand as a teen despite being the very sort of teen who *would* have read her, mostly because I'd been burned…

I would have gone with Pallas Athena, myself. After what was left of Samaritan bursts full-grown from the virtual skull of the Machine…

Really? I thought the whole point of Breaking Bad was that it was a moral demolition, and the only questions were about what patterns the rubble makes on the way down. Walt was literally a dead man walking.

First five or so episodes, I kind of felt the same way about Shaw, although it was more Fusco getting sidelined than Carter. After a while, they figured out how to accommodate the new characters, mostly by not trying to shoehorn in Zoe and other tertiary characters, as much fun as Zoe is. Well, that and they found…

Let's take Alias now. Now, I'm a huge fan of Alias. It was eight kinds of fun, even on its worst day. There was always something amusing or pretty to look at, and Jennifer Garner had great charisma and physical presence. But 90% of the time, the plots were sketchy excuses to get her in outrageous outfits and stylish…

For one thing, PoI has *brakes*. Fringe's commitment to lunacy was bracing, but they lost control of the story about when they had to pay off with the second reality, and somebody tried to humanize mirrorworld. It just wasn't credible that the world we eventually got could have actually produced the shapeshifters…

We know how Northern Lights (Control, Hersh, et al) and Decima do what they do. How is Vigilance able to put together what they've done in this episode? I understand how they can *avoid detection* by the Machine and vanilla law enforcement, but there was a hell of a lot of detective work involved in tracking down…

Growing a beard in Canada? Okay… This episode was packed solid enough as it was, the Lone Hacktivists kind of usurped his role.

I read that scene as "Alicia is getting old, and is befuddled by these newfangled doohickeys and strange new world entertainment thickets". Mind you, this is the sort of thing I expect of someone in their dotage, not from a high-powered lawyer pushing fifty at the oldest - did we ever get a canonical age on Peter and…

I haven't seen True Detective, but it's immediately recognizable as a parody of it. Although really, the "crack whore eat her own arm" line was one joke over the line, that's a bit clown-shoes.

You've not seen CP in TV before? What about Breaking Bad? Or did I get the issue with Walt's son wrong, and it just looked like CP?

She's not wrong in complaining that it's an off episode, but the lack of romance between Polmar and Alicia is *not* the reason. It's a little off because the show is following a "romance" or at least "affair" pattern, and the character is rebelling against that template. The reviewer *wants* a chase down that blind…

I wanted to know if the writers had already forgotten she was supposed to be covered in heavy scarring, or that they somehow were not noticed by the fagins and artful dodgers?

Given his turn on Dexter as the sociopathic motivational speaker with his own little cult of rapist-murderers, yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the same state as Miller in a killing mood.

Mycroft's moment with the Swiss bankers is legitimately frightening, like, serial-killer unnerving. Good scene.