Malcolm X, Clockers, Inside Man.

I liked this one too. But my expectations are pretty low at this point.

Also Andrea from Breaking Bad!

Wikipedia says Los Angeles, and I think I remember reading that a while back too. But if they end of retconning that and deciding it's just Vancouver, I'd be quite happy.

This is a good explanation for why Brody behaves this way. But I still find it pretty funny how he ignores Chris in this episode.

B. The show has gotten my attention back after a… problematic start to the season. But this grade is kind of a placeholder until I see how this all plays out.

This is one of my major reasons for preferring Moffat as well. That and the tone of the performances. Under Davies everyone [edit: the doctors excepted I suppose. Tennant in particular was excellent] felt too broad and highly pitched. I think under Moffat they this was balanced out by increasing the tempo.

Yeah, I watched it again and it's definitely Ward following May. Even if they're ignoring basic film grammar in some sort of weird experiment to deceive the audience, the room looks identical to May's and the person entering is wearing Ward's clothes and watch.

That's what I thought too, and I saw a ton of promos. I only found out there was a new episode last night from reading it somewhere here.

According to Wikipedia, it aired in production order? Unless you're talking about the Season 1 holdover that aired in Season 2.

The banter was good, but I felt it was too soon.

This was probably a better introduction that the pilot. It wasn't horrible or anything, but this one's relative strength makes me think that it suffered pretty heavily from modern network tv pilot demands.

Well, Wyman and Pinkner were the only two showrunners the show ever had. Kurtzman and Orci's involvement was largely in the early parts of Season 1, which might be the least popular part of the show around here. Bryan Burk, I believe, is more J.J. Abram's producing partner than a writer. According to imdb, his "story…

I believe in the commentary they basically admit this. Well, not those words exactly, but it was included to hedge their bet that the audience would be okay with Jim leaving her.

I'm going to guess the majority of the show's audience isn't familiar with Marvel comics.

I think this would be my ranking too. With Fitz-Simmons and Skye-Ward being pretty close to tied.

Putting her ahead of Skye and Ward is pretty faint praise.

I thought the cold open was going to an in media res. That it turned out not to be earned the episode at least some points from me.

I'm completely unfamiliar with Marvel comics and I got no sense she was supposed to be a lesbian.

Agreed that "The Waldo Moment" is the weakest. The rest are great and I'm not sure I could rank them.