Agreed. Walt may not have hit her, but he's an abusive husband through and through, blackmailing her into living with a man she has come to despise, and play a good wife. How anyone can hold the 'I fucked Ted' thing against her when that was her trying to assert some power in the only way she could, when Walt refused…

OK - noted!

Agree with your top tier, though I've only seen season 1 of Justified and just thought it was okay, I'll definitely rank it (and the others) above The Shield, which I essentially gave up on towards the end of season 4 and sold my DVD boxset I had blind-bought on the strength of so many good words. I guess I didn't…

Edge of Glory is terrible, awful, cheesy power-ballad. You and I is okay, but Sheisse and Americano are the best tracks off of BtW, great dance songs. The title track is actually better in its country version I think, the album version is incredibly over-produced.

Agree. I definitely started to notice the silly plot contrivances, easy escapes, pointless secondary character storylines, reset/repeat season arcs, etc, a lot more in season 5. I never thought the show was on the same level as the best shows out there, but it managed to be moderately interesting and intelligent in…

I liked Lumen, so I'd rank 5 over 3, 6 and 7. I do think 6, 7 and 8 have all had things going for them in the opening few episodes, but then have just fallen apart and gotten terrible in the second half. Season 8 is following that trend quite nicely at the moment.

I liked: "If he's stalking Zach, how will I?"

Hmm, yeah worst episode of the season so far for sure. At least the premiere had the memorial bench dialogue counterbalanced by coked-up Jennifer Carpenter really going for it. I actually enjoyed the Vogel/Deb/Dexter stuff in the last few episodes quite a bit, but this just had nothing going for it. I agree with…

My partner pointed out while watching this that Dexter quickly becoming weirdly friendly with Zach would definitely be read as 'is this guy into me?' by a real person.

I'm 5 episodes in but the only prisoners that I can see as qualifying are probably Chapman (which is kind of the point), and Lorna. That's not to say that the rest aren't attractive, but not in a typical US-TV way IMO. It still has a larger and more diverse female cast than most other shows on TV: overweight women,…

I haven't minded the Deb/Dexter stuff this season (and I definitely preeferred the last few episodes to this one), but during the scene where Dexter awkwardly said, of his steak, 'not exactly worth living for', I bust out laughing.

Interesting comparison (and I love both shows), hadn't really thought about the plot-vs-character thing but Buffy DOES feel more character- driven for sure. I wouldn't call BSG an 'archetype' for a plot-driven show though, because there were still characters I cared about at the end whose arcs I could still just about…

Since everything is ultimately subjective in the end, I see no problem with this.

I only saw the first 2 and a half seasons of Lost before giving up (and I never thought it was particularly good to begin with), but I really would've liked it if Jack had died. And Sawyer. And Kate. And… yeah beginning to see why I never liked this show much…

*had CGI tears put on their face.

I don't know, it seemed if anything *less* personal to me, particularly the fact that lots of the songs are named after and reference other people's names…. it seemed to me the point she was speaking through different personas and characters more explicitly than before.

I hated the Pillows and Blankets two-parter.

I'm fully onboard with finally getting an Alcide full frontal shot before killing off his character and the werewolf storyline in one fell swoop.

Except the show has been in as much of a mess for at least the past two seasons when he was in charge, so apparently it makes no difference.

I like the one where Chandler pretends to move to Yemen because he can't face breaking up with her: