And she went out into an actual snowstorm in a pair of boots with serious heels.

It's a pretty common refrain among Elementary's fans that the primary mystery plots they can take or leave; the little character moments the writers and actors create, and the evolution of the Holmes / Watson dynamic are what keep the fans tuning in.

Clyde returns at last!

Let's see…

Once again, I have cause to appreciate my blissful ignorance of Taylor Swift and all of her works.

Depends on which midwesterners you're talking about, basically.

Well… no.
It's not wildly obvious, but there's a different vowel sound and the use of the tongue in forming the sound is definitely distinct.

I'm not an expert in the field, and I know that there's a whole bunch of Cali accents, but as I understand it, there are some deviations. There are vowel mergers that show up a lot, like cot-caught, and there are other, subtler things that I could probably put a name to if I'd retained more from my linguistics course.

God willing.

God damn it. No Elementary. No Person of Interest.

Speaking as a guy raised in southern Iowa, which is one of the last remaining habitats for the so-called 'general american accent' (newsreader American english) I've always thought it was kind of awesome how hard many of the people on television, even folk from other continents, work to sound like my friends and…

I suppose it's just a case study in how first impressions tend to shape your opinions of a work on later viewings.

It would have been nice to see the other aliens' personalities more developed, but between the Weavers and the Bird-Kersees, you already have, what, nine major characters? For a show trying to find its feet, focusing on the main cast was probably best choice.

A lot of credit has to go to the writers, for the speed with which they identified the substantial dead wood in the pilot episode (e.g. The zabvronians more inane traits, like crying green goo out of the ears) and cut them out quickly and cleanly.

Ace of Clubs, wasn't it? Hence the "balls"? 3 balls attached to a single stem, as opposed to Spades, which looks like a Heart with a stem attached?

"It's like her breasts are afraid of the dark! When a Helen Mirren film
comes on a telly that's like a guarantee. Her name says: OK, boys, you
better watch this one with a curtain shut!"

Ambrosia

A Man - and I mean a real man, not some dime-novel paragon!

I've come to the conclusion that I can watch Lee Van Cleef in pretty
much anything, and come away satisfied. The first time I watched For a Few Dollars More at age 15, he be basically supplanted Clint Eastwood and John Wayne in my mind as the essential Western Badass.