And in full Elvis voice, to boot. I love that whole exchange.

I still have the CD. I've listened to Cage's version more than I have the King's.

As I said, it's been a long time. But I recall the bird saying "Leland, no." Which is why I wasn't surprised at the eventual reveal.

I haven't seen it since it first aired. But as I recall, the mynah bird actually reveals the killer several episodes before the show does.

Not that Holt would ever use it to his advantage, but I think some of his superiors would be less likely to mess with him knowing his mother is a federal judge. One of those details that probably should have been more prominently discussed in prior episodes.

The plot of the season finale has been leaked. I won't spoil it here, particularly because it will likely end in a cliffhanger. But I don't think it has anything to do with that.

I think Fox unfortunately got stuck with the episode. They might have pulled it, but it leads directly into next week's episodes (which I think are the season finale). True, it's not like Fox hasn't shown episodes out of order before (cough*Firefly*cough). But it was on very short notice and would have thrown off…

Alec Baldwin has taken over The Essentials on TCM. I hear he and Fey may have some mutual acquaintances.

I have admit I'm glad to read reviews after-the-fact from someone who has read the book. I was a bit confused by the Jinn scene as I thought the salesman and the Jinn had merged or possessed one another or something.

For a bunch of super powerful, nigh omniscient beings, they sure have trouble telling if a person is "one of the family." At least Charlotte admitted at the end that she knew it wasn't God as soon as they kissed.

And nice lampshading on the belt buckle. Johnson shouldn't have been able to wear the belt in a mental…

I watched a couple episodes and I couldn't believe how broadly Perry was playing his character. Like "Chuck Lorre would tell you to tone it down" broad. Which is odd because he hasn't gone that way in most of his post-Friends sitcoms. It was almost like a meta-parody of a sitcom character.

Monk's is wonderful. The first couple of sips threw me off, but by the end of the night it's all I wanted to drink.

I got a bit confused by that as well. When they revealed the rescue ship was actually a replacement crew, I thought "why?" Like you say, the suits seemingly could perform all the tasks and were even capable of learning. I thought the final reveal would be that the suits were terminating their hosts because they…

I'm getting more than a little tired of these "comics universe-adjacent" shows. While I like SHIELD, and liked Powerless, I'm sick of the cynical "Batman/Superman/Spider-Man/Thor may show up in this show…but probably not…you won't find out unless you watch" marketing hook. If you want to make shows about minor…

I liked it too. I feel like it was really harmed by the mandate that it connect to the DC Universe. Had they just done a straightforward Better Off Ted type show with that cast, I think it would have done much better.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and the Matt Dillon movie A Kiss Before Dying each have a similar scene of a body being disposed of by being cut up in a bathtub. In neither scene do they actually show anything, but you can hear the sounds of a dull knife tearing through gristle. Horrifying.

The way he slowly twirls the forceps while he's describing what the eels do to the brain….(shudder)

At least the crew of the Nostromo had a quarantine procedure that Ash circumvented.

I thought the goal of sci-fi auteurs was to tell us things we didn't already know.

LMOE is one of those shows that constantly pushes right up to the edge of "why am I watching this again?" I almost quit after Tandy's horndog shenanigans in season 1, then stayed after they got past that.

I would have bailed during this latest Tandy-at-his-Tandyest season, but that damn dinosaur suit laid me out every…