Well, they did lock Carol in a closet, and had everyone assume she was dead, and bury…something… in a grave, only to have her emerge from the closet and Daryl fear that she was a zombie when she supposedly was already buried…

I don't know enough about psychopaths or sociopaths (thankfully) to know how much is nature and how much is nurture. I tend to come down on the "nature" side, so I agree with everyone there. But Carol gave Lizzie all the tools, training and reinforcement she needed to let that aspect of her personality reign supreme.…

I think after Rick sent her away, she circled back to the prison in time to watch the whole battle go down, and then had to somehow find the girls. I trust Scott Gimple to write an amazing story about the adventures of Carol. I agree with you that it felt like the episode "dropped a minute or two of tape," that is the…

Its the only way I can make sense of Carol. She's bound and determined that those kids aren't going to end up like Sophia.

Carol is protecting Lizzie, which is the reason we didn't see her find the kids in the forest - an odd choice seeing how this show loves reunions. They're saving that scene, so they can show how Carol stops Lizzie from smothering Judith. I think Lizzie killed Karen and what's his name back in the prison, and Carol…

Doesn't anybody find it odd that those in the know think a total stranger got into the house and attacked Anna, and nobody changed the locks or anything. Mrs Hughes even made a remark about not locking the doors because "This is England" which just shot their cover story out of the water. It doesn't seem to occur to…

I do hope Mary shoves all of her suitors, for now. Matthew hasn't even
been dead a year (9 months? George isn't even walking yet, is he?) I doubt that Mabel
Lane-Fox will have the decency to drop dead of the flu, so the waffling
Tony is out. Evelyn's been in her life for years, and she's never given
him much of a…

The fact that Edith is in a really, really bad position was sort of glossed over I felt. Unmarried, pregnant by a man who is not of her social status and of whom her parents only grudgingly approve, and who is missing in the enemy country of Germany! Thank goodness nobody cares about her, and while they would fall…

She has to wait for Mrs Pattmore to retire first, so I guess it depends on how long she's willing to wait for the promotion. She's been in the kitchen at least 10 years, and taught Alfred enough to get him the job at the Ritz (which should have been her job) so I think she could handle her own kitchen.

I can't really agree about Daisy. She's not stuck by any means, in a way I think that she has more opportunity than some of the others. She's young, and has worked her way up the ladder a bit and has cooking skills. She's a war widow, which would have commanded some respect and understanding. She's served the house…

It isn't a bad set done on the cheap, its the actual trompe l'oeil painting of books on the doorway at Highclere Castle. While close inspection would reveal to anyone that the books were just painted on, it is a really fun way to have a "secret" door.

While I have really enjoyed this season so far, I am a little disappointed with how heavy handed Julian Fellows' writing is - I'm sure I'm not the first to say this. Gosford Park was a masterpiece of subtlty. You settle in for an archetypal English Country House Mystery, and not until the very end does he suddenly…

Gail took a little time off, and just had a baby!

But the person who suggested the clogged drain hair in the first place was the Famous French Chef. It was her menu. Was Nick even allowed to jettison these ideas, or did he just have to soldier on with things he didn't know very much about? And if they had thrown it out, what would they have done instead? It seemed…

I agree, that was probably the most unfair elimination. I remember a totally lame challenge from much earlier, when they had the chefs create a menu for a camp where all the children had diabetes. The chefs had to have all of their dishes checked by dieticians, then they were critiqued and given feedback, then they…

I was really, really irritated that Nicholas has gone along with all the crazy challenges, doing everything they asked of him, playing by the rules…and then the judges didn't like the results and wanted him to resign to make it all "fair." Yes he created inferior dishes, but he was doing so under the direction of a…

I totally agree, John Besh seems like a very nice person, and he's been exceptionally generous with his time, talent, restaurants and home, but to single out his hair? Very odd to me.

Yeah, I miss Gail, too! But it was nice to see the video on the Top Chef web site where she took all the chefs out for New Orleans style slushies. AND she just had a baby. Yay Gail!

I think you are right. There was a lot of blood on the baby carrier, so it looked like someone was very close to it when they took a bullet. No zombies had made it to that area yet. I don't think the writers would call for gravely wounding one of the kids that was lugging it around, so it has to be someone else…

I haven't read that one, but he is such a good writer that I definitely will.