The Good Wife.

1.) My sense last week was that she just left witness protection without telling anyone, went back to using her real identity, and no one had bothered to check on her. I have no idea if this actually makes any sense.

Unfortunately, they don't view this as an acceptable reason for not wanting to read the book. Or they bring up that he has a co-author or that he was a high school history teacher (apparently true according to Wikipedia). Then I just wish that Bill O'Reilly wouldn't write these stupid books so that I wouldn't have to…

Or maybe it's because it's the first episode to get (some of) us to care about any of the characters?

Because it would interfere with the will they or won't they between her and Agent Boring Guy.

Just an FYI: if you want stuff typed in Word to look okay in disqus, copy and paste it into Notepad, then copy and paste that into disqus. Actually, I do that copy and pasting anything into disqus.

What makes it even more bizarre is that they've scheduled it against the (inexplicably popular to me) NCIS mothership.

My mom does.

8000 lb gorilla-elephant in the room called Obama

A couple points:

I very rarely like these kinds of twists (where the audience is kept in the dark about important information known by the main characters). So, yeah, I don't care much about this one one way or the the other.

In case anyone is wondering, this is kind of wonderful as a bad movie. Not quite Happening level, but still pretty wonderful.

Zack Handlen, not Todd, reviews the show on a weekly basis.

Game of Thrones costs about $60 million/season or $6 million per episode. So half of that would be $3 million, which I've seen reported as the normal cost of an hour long TV show. It's possible that with cost cutting a lot/most network dramas cost less than that. And maybe there's additional overhead associated with…

This show looks cheap, but nowhere near as cheap as Alphas.

BECAUSE THE LIGHTING IS TOO DAMN BRIGHT!

I seem to remember they changed the title because they thought it was more appropriate for Abu Nazir's death episode. Can't find a source for that right now though.

At least the second half of last season was bananapants insane. At this point I'm just disengaged.

Wow. I just realized this was the first time I've ever sat through an entire Sandra Bullock movie. The closest I had come previously was about 75% of Crash on cable.

It's actually a very good article, and the piece is ultimately very positive towards the film.