The character is just really boring and the choices Stapleton's making aren't making him any more interesting. Since the character's writing has no humor whatsoever, the acting should. It seems like he's being directed to be as somber and serious and personalityless as possible about all things.

well the perfectly reasonable explanation for the spring being empty is the earthquake. the rest is TBD

lol but that's not what you said, you said if you care about language, you would be an asshole about the sign they have up. Yes it matters, but—get this—it doesn't always really matter.

I didn't like, though, that they played the same game two episodes in a row. Yes, we got different glimpses, but having the same thing in the last thirty seconds again after setting them up happily and whatnot seemed a little cheap.

Not always— if the verb isn't transitive ("Die Brian") it's just nonsense.

Okay, sure, if you also ignore how people talk. If someone told you to put something down someone what would you think that meant to do? Do you feed it to them? Do you put it in their shirt? Anything it could be trying to describe would be much more readily and clearly described by some other sentence. I can't imagine…

Except "put that down, Brian" doesn't have some other meaning when you take the comma out. It seems like something he might mention but wouldn't really care about.

I might agree with you if this were on TVLine, but this is a pretty standard AV Club review style—the analysis is typically more involved than other review sites that mostly just summarize the episode, with the idea that media deserves equal analysis whether it's "serious" or "escapist"—other factors like how in the…

yer killin me, smalls

amazed how much better a name it is for that show than this one.

:/ I don't think your AV club grade votes will be the thing that gets Sleepy Hollow renewed or not.

Crane would so not use "begs the question" that way.

I wouldn't say The Good Wife is drama second. The Good Wife finds one source of drama (which frequently makes up, along with snappy dialogue, the bulk of the "fun" aspect) by using extreme examples of law in practice. And then there's all the other drama—the political/family dynamic/relationship drama that's often…

lol "not loving it" or "not particularly caring for it" is a far cry from calling it "tween shit"

Yeah you would

I cried at least two and a half times.

Haha, yeah, not defending it morally, just slightly less dumb than being burst at an atomic level. Which would actually probably be less painful and more of an instant-death situation. But way more explodey.

Yeah, my bigger problem is that the setup of the entire episode implies that when she says "Impossible" and he says "But what if it wasn't," by god he'll do it. Which is gross and invalidating so they'd better not.

it'd be cool if we saw an episode where he did save her up until him showing up and shaking his head n stuff

I don't think they "burst him on an atomic level," I think he died of radiation poisoning/burns.