Have no fear, the pre-air A.V. Club review by Alex McCown suggests we'll be getting some nice chupacabras and carnival freaks (or similar) in episodes 2 and 3. And maybe 4? I think only 5 and 6 go back to the rubbish basket of never-ending, never-resolved conspiracies and alien abductions.

Um… most of them are wild goose chases, no? Or at least chasing geese that get snuffed out by CSM, sending our intrepid heroes back to square one at the end, pretty much every single goddamn time. Well, maybe that's more of a wild Martian chase.

Even at the time they first aired, I was very suspicious that "E.B.E." and "Erlenmeyer" etc. were going nowhere, but they were so lovingly made, well-produced, etc., that I wanted to like them. (Not so many shows were filmed in Vancouver back then, and none of them made such good use of it as this show.) But they were…

This is much more entertaining than the actual episode we all just watched.

Some of us don't care that a bunch of sweaty lugs have worked all year to get to some stupid playoff game. Isn't that what ESPNews and Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 are for? They can go over there and talk about their sportsing and how the other team sportsed less or more than their sportsing. Screw football… with a…

Is anyone else going to get this Doctor Who reference? Maybe not, but you've got my upvote.

The reason you think it's good is because you haven't suffered through the increasingly stupid mythology episodes throughout the show's run, ALL of which follow this same basic template: We've got proof! Oops, THEY have destroyed our proof! We've got witnesses! Oops, THEY have killed our witnesses! Well, I guess we'll…

The mythology was never excellent in the early seasons in the first place. It did a great job of faking it though. Carter had no ending in mind and was stringing the audience along the whole time — and admittedly many of those episodes were extremely well produced and well directed and looked GREAT, and often had…

*laughs and points at the sucker who believed any part of the mythology was supposed to make the slightest bit of sense whatsoever and wasn't just random shit thrown at a wall by Chris Carter in between surfing and rolling in piles of Fox's money*

Good point. I didn't mean to denigrate Cap's sex appeal. He is pretty sexy. Just not in the same way for me as someone like Atwell. But that's my problem. Also you're right, the potential Daily Mail headlines could be hilarious.

Loads of people love season 1 of Broadchurch. Tennant is excellent, actually much better than he was as the 10th Doctor (but then I wasn't a big fan of the 10th Doctor). The acting and direction and atmosphere are top-notch. The actual writing, eh. Well, the characterization is good. That might be Chibnall's strength.

But that's pretty much the only good thing about Chibnall. None of his Doctor Who episodes were half as good as Broadchurch season 1, which seemed like a fluke in Chibnall's CV, and most of Broadchurch S1's quality was more due to the actors and the direction. Sure, the characterization was good, but there wasn't…

Not Peter Harness? Is he busy with something else?

With the kind of miserable ratings that Agent Carter S2 is getting so far, Hayley Atwell might not be out of the range of possibility, though I'd prefer someone a bit more inhuman. Atwell is maybe too warm, or something. Also, this is my problem, not hers, but I'd be a little confounded by a super-sexy Doctor. (I…

Um, so you haven't suffered through "42", "Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood", or "Power of Three"? I mean seriously, what a Dumpster fire this is going to be. But maybe you like your episodes to be bland and boring as hell.

I wish this were possible, but what you're suggesting simply isn't done in the UK. Are you not from the UK? I'm not either, but looking at other examples of British TV dramas (soaps excepted), I see very few where the showrunner doesn't write EVERY episode, believe it or not (though in most cases, UK shows have very…

OH FUCK NO NOT CHIBNALL!

Your point is ignorant and dopey. They're not similar in any real way. Movies slapped with an NC-17 or whatever can still be released on DVD, or re-edited down to an R. The MPAA isn't generally political either. It's not an arm of a vicious authoritarian government.

This comment times 10,000.

So an episode written by Chris Carter is total ham-fisted rubbish that leads nowhere, while the James Wong and Darin Morgan episodes are great? Wow, this show really HASN'T changed at all, has it?