Ah, Downton Abbey. I'll kinda miss you. What does it say that now Lady Edith is the character with the most interesting possibilities. I just wish she'd get on with it. She's the future.

Anachronism city. Would a southern belle know to use the word "invasive" to describe a procedure? And would she say "thanks?" Excuse me, young lady, but were you raised in a barn?
Did folks back then call their fathers "dad"? (maybe they did, but it sounds off). And yes, all the rest of it - I was horrified at the end…

I have a set of Hildebrand-illustrated calendars somewhere around here too. Am not at all ashamed.

"Why would you ever have a garden maze?" Nearly identical to the question I asked the housebuddy when the maze appeared. And I agree with your take on it. Found the women's lib bits a little out of place somehow - tied in with a few earlier scenes, yes, and that was rewarding but still somehow a bit much - and yet was…

I get that, but not all of them did and not all of the ones who did went batshit crazy. My problem was that, with all of the issues and changes in medical techniques and lives of the ordinary people around them, we spent an inordinate amount of time rolling around in Thack's narcissism and addiction.

Between ISIS and Donald Trump, there has been a lot of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth about what the world is coming to, and I've taken to sending folks to "Fargo" for a bit of therapy. Because both Camus and Betsy are right. Absurd as the story of humanity looks like on the broad scale, loving and caring…

You're probably right - and yet, I don't remember her trying *that* hard - was surprised at Cary, so may have shoved some of that disappointment off on Diane. I think what made me remember it wrong was how ham-handed she was in hiring her - Diane had a gift for being straight-forward when it was the best thing to do,…

I'm a "lefty," but a lefty who recognizes that ISIS is a threat to world stability, at the very least, and who disapproves of letting the sun shine in on every government document ever been written until at least 100 years after the fact. I do not, however, agree with massive serin attacks to "wake up the West." I…

For my money, the show went off the tracks during the hiring process at Lockhart, et al. It *never* made sense to me that Diane would be so tone deaf and dismissive of an obviously very talented African American applicant - I think the old Diane would have been in her corner. Likewise, Cary. It's as if they all slid…

How can Soderbergh resist a replay of "It Happened One Night?" Cleary as Clark Gable and Harry as Claudette Colbert.

I feel almost guilty to be sitting in a warm room on a comfy couch with wine and chocolate while watching this show. Everybody looks cold and uncomfortable. When I remember what I saw, I seem to remember it in black and white. But I'm grateful to the reviewers, who help me figure out a bit of what I just watched.…

She's crazy about him.

The Fox of Portlandia
Because Captain Renard.

The line (I think from a show or two ago), "It's a war, and it's coming to Portland!" (paraphrased), had me giggling because - Portland. So now I have a Christmas wish - I want to see a Grimm/Portlandia crossover. Maybe a Christmas special. Next year. The Wesen of the week could be something fox-like and there could…

I know (although now that you mention it, I vaguely remember it from RA). But this year's Fargo seems to have featured it prominently with that signature Minnesota lilt.

I was in St. Peter. Halfway between LeSeur (the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant - and please let next season's Fargo go far enough into Minnesota to feature the billboard, if it's still there) and Mankato.

I also want this show to go on to further glory, but I'm wondering where it has to go once both the gadget and the principles are off the hill?

When this season of Fargo becomes available on DVD, this is the episode that you should keep next to your DVD player for when, watching the news, you find yourself asking, "Why? Why?"

Coming in right after, "Ya gotta stop stabbin' him, hon." And Mike's "Well, okay then."

Just in time to take over the northern territories, Mike has adopted the lingo: "Well, okay then." He'll fit right in.