Yeah, I agree. The last few episodes kind of fell flat for me for that reason. The whole thing just tipped way too far into unreality to compensate for the fact that in real life, there's pretty much no way there'd be any tension for whether or not he was guilty with three surviving (and willing) witnesses to testify…

I don't remember enough of this show to comment meaningfully, but I remember putting Further Instructions near the very bottom of my episode rankings both times I made my way through the series. I hate "sweat lodge"/"vision quest" episodes generally, though.

The "Shut up, Vera" joke is gold. Says so much without being super obvious or putting too fine a point on it at all.

I love that bit. Leslie's response is also great: "I don't know, it depends on how often you use it, but that's not important right now!"

Winslet seriously did deserve it for Eternal Sunshine. It's a brilliant performance.

Next week on CSI: Cyber

I've gotten into a bad habit of watching the trailer for this over and over for the last few weeks, and it seems damn near irresistible. It doesn't look great, necessarily, but it definitely looks right up my alley and I'm always in the mood for some Anna Kendrick, especially singing Anna Kendrick.

It's Daryl aka Blax!

And the kicker is that he was brought in as a love interest for Kurt.

I would love to see a version of Glee stripped down to the essentials, not bound to a quota of iTunes sales and DEFINITELY not run by Ryan Murphy and his cronies. Find actors who can sing on camera and have them do that. Keep the fantasy/music-video style numbers to a minimum. Get rid of Sue entirely. Give it a tone…

Okay, so these are both obviously being cancelled almost immediately, but which one will be the one that the AVC commentariat insists is actually pretty good despite its stupid title and premise, so people really should give it a chance?

I've heard her name tossed around a lot but never knew who she was. I opened up this article and immediately I was like "Oh, the bartender from Mixology Certification". Weird.

Yes, that Hanks.

No, I literally yelled at the screen "IT'S THE FRINGE TYPEWRITER". Twice.

Jeremy wishes.

I'm in full support of Ryan sticking around every week. I don't even really care what he does. If he wants to just hang around the apartment and say British-y things (maybe in that construction uniform?), I'll be happy.

You had me at Enver Gjokaj.

"The One Where The Girls Lose Their Apartment in a Bet (I have no idea what its actually called)"

"Michael, a pimp spit in her mouth!" I have a soft spot in my heart for Season 9, and Paul Rudd and everything to do with his character is a big part of that.

Well I'm glad SOMEONE read my Christmas wish list.