The title was definitely a problem, I avoided it for a couple seasons because I couldn't make head or tails of what the name was supposed to mean. "Breaking Bad" - that punches, draws in, sells. "The Good Wife" sounds like a historical about Puritan New England or something like that - The Goodwife, y'know?

(I mean do wives of sitting Governors ever do this?

I think the word you're looking for there is "office manager". And Robyn seems a little… sitcommy for a drama's office manager.

Since they're all "department heads", I think it's pretty much overdetermined that they're partners. And would explain the chatter about F/A's sudden liquidity - they all just bought in with their partner shares.

I'm kind of worried that he's gonna shoot somebody for sweeps.

And the soccer dad that has his very own little cheering section because everyone else is petrified of him.

At first I thought it was Peter who sent the guy with the check, but certainly not to play Eli-type reverse-psychology games. Peter *is* that kind of corrupt, although the show dances around it, because the show likes to pretend that the Chicago Machine doesn't *actually* exist.

In what moral schema does Olivia Pope get classified as an "antihero"? She's pretty much the only sort-of-moral person in a show populated by lunatics and demons. (The moral kind, not the True Blood kind.)

Ugh, just awful. The structure was pudding, and not the good kind of pudding, either, that awful soupy stuff with all the chunks, like pre-vomit. No scene built on the previous scene, they kept trying to hide things from the audience that didn't need to be kept, and the ending made it seem like a character was…

Ehhh… As much as I like Better Off Dead, it's got some too-cute-for-the-room moments, mostly the protagonist's mother, mind you, but still a little weak. As much as Real Genius's politics annoy me, you could bounce a quarter off the script. It's just a crazy-well-put-together show.

Not in my experience.

Ferris acts the way he does because he's Cameron's fever-dream figment of imagination..

Classic Rock format radio means that the Long Sixties will never end. Well, maybe they'll die with the last boomer. That song was recorded a year before *I* was born, but I've probably heard it a couple dozen times over the course of my adolescence.

The arrangement is new, which is what I though the writer meant.

The grenade thing felt very real. Most people who aren't suffering from PTSD don't have an instantaneous reaction to unexpected threats, especially in a rest state. It takes *time* to recognize the grenade suddenly appearing on the bar. It's one of the reasons that hand grenades *work* in close urban environments,…

In the same way that a Boston creme is full of filler. Delicious, golden filler.

I'm theorizing that he's another CIA drug kingpin, backed by Samaritan and Decima to keep the drug trade under control and out of the terror-funding game.

How your show uses Amy Acker is how you will be Judged. MAoS was found… wanting.

There is no power in the universe stronger than paperwork.
/bureaucrat

Except he accidentally tweets out Tracy Jordan's address instead?