I liked last night's episode after about the 15-minute mark. I think it's finally hitting the James Ellroy story beats it's been attempting all year. It's still not great, but it was fun and solid. Speaking of Ellroy, a father in a custody battle for his kid who (maybe) isn't his biological son and who takes a…

In the interest of fairness, and I'm not saying what he did is okay, it's important to remember that Bill Cosby raped dozens of women and is a terrible, terrible human being no one should ever defend.

Yeah, I've had those thoughts too — if it is a cop, then keeping Velcoro alive might make sense for some personal or strategic reasons, but on the other hand, Birdman has no idea what else Velcoro knows about, besides the location of that bungalow, or where his connections go.

I think they wanted Velcoro's shooting to feel like Twin Peaks, when Dale Cooper is shot and experiences a visit from the Giant; unfortunately, it was more like the X-Files cliffhanger where Moulder is trapped in a burning underground boxcar and then just … Escapes. Because. Yes, the riot bullet suggesting it was a…

Well, if Tobias were a more known or respected critic, calling All About My Mother "close to boring," would be a review his fans expected him to revisit or justify in his maturity. But Tobias is not a known or respected critic, he has no fans, and he never matured.

The Beatles seem to get played way less frequently on the radio than Sublime and Nirvana.

Puddle of Mud mentioned like right next to Pearl Jam? Is that something people really do? Pearl Jam is not what they used to be, but Ten sold so much — and Vs debuted so high — for a reason.

Yeah. Sonia's take on the show is … idiosyncratic.

So when Lindelhof said this was not going to be like Lost … I think he doesn't remember what made Lost, Lost. We have episodes that follow just one ensemble character, often on a journey or in different settings, and now we have a flashback episode where recurrent symbols (dogs, deer) are given a lot more subtextual…