While Gillian is clearly the better of the two, I think what history has really shown is that Carter's best work was in casting and hiring writers. Duchovny's flatness actually works for Mulder, as it wouldn't take much for Mulder to seem like a complete nut job. Gillian Anderson was such a find, as someone less…

I thought the dates on the emails were interesting because it seems to imply Will and Alicia started sleeping together again when she left LG, and wasn't just tempted and resisting him as it seemed like was happening on screen. If that's the case, no wonder Will was so pissed when she left.

I kind of love the imagine of Alicia typing something, reading it back over and looking agitated, but then smiling sort of smugly before sending it.

Alicia has definitely hit a bit of a crossroads. She has seemingly chosen a direction by going into politics, but she is ambivalent about it. Johnny's reaction to seeing her with Peter showed how she really can't ever move on from Peter if she wants to continue down this road. I am presuming that we're heading…

Not that Marnie hasn't been pretty awful, but having two serious relationships end with someone just dropping off the face of the earth without a word is harsh. Ouch.

ABC is renowned for having shows with terrible titles. Trophy Wife was much better than its terrible title suggested as well. (I never saw Selfe, but naturally it was also on ABC.)

One of the reasons that Will's death was a effective plot line was that Will was basically just as integral as Alicia as far as connecting the ensemble. After the Alicia/Kalinda falling out, Will was more connected to both Diane and Kalinda than Alicia. Then extracting Alicia onto an island has created a disconnect…

She apparently has no intention of ever really officially ending her marriage, at least so long as she is in politics. That alone really precludes a real relationship, which is more of what she has with Finn. A fling or even ongoing affair with a political advisor is a whole lot simpler.

It reminds me of the old TWOP recaps that featured the ongoing saga of the Mulder/Scully action figures.

I couldn't believe there were four season 2 episodes and no "Telethon." It's probably my favorite episode from that season, and the episode where I went from liking the show to loving it.

I think she might be a sub, which anyone with a degree can do in a lot of places. She's going to march in thinking she'll be inspirational and everyone's friend, which for sure will go poorly.

Brett's dream day cracked me up, because it totally reminds me of one of my married friends. When I first moved for work, I used to just take my Kindle and read on the Starbucks patio pretty much all weekend because I knew nobody and hated where I lived. My married work friend would ask me about my weekend, and I…

Familial relationships when done right can be just as powerful to watch as romantic love. For instance, I think my favorite moment of Veronica Mars was the scene where Veronica and Keith get confirmation that he's her father. That relationship was much more interesting to me than any Logan/Duncan shenanigans.

How I Met Your Mother called it the Dahmer vs Dobler Effect. It's pretty spot on.

The ending of the episode just really took away the effectiveness of what had come before. It reminded me of every soapy love triangle climax in the history of television, and was really contrived.

Once again proving that Gillian Anderson can basically do wrong.

When Holt mentioned his food dream of eating a beige powder of nutrients, it made me laugh because I remembered this great NPR review of Soylent (which is just that). http://www.npr.org/blogs/th…

I thought the "No, we are not" (or its equivalent) line reading to the waitress was great.

It's interesting too that as soon as the affair was over in Noah's eyes, Helen came off completely different. The way they went off to laugh about her father was one of the first times that they were painted as a unit, not as Helen part of her family unit and Noah as an outsider.

Crushing debt.