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The Killing. Sorry, I know this was like two months late.

To be fair, he was a dick to a presumed homeless man. That ain't particularly holy.

We did get a gruff cop dad crossover though, which was a thing of beauty.

In my headcanon, Slade was in love with Olly, and felt betrayed to discover Olly showing interest in Shado, not him. And just when he was starting to come to terms with these feelings! No wonder he went psycho.

The AV Club's search is finicky, temperamental and increasingly frustrating, aka "pulling a Robyn."

I didn't mind season 2. I was watching mostly for the Tennant/Colman chemistry though.

Oh my god. Lithgow + Fuller + Gaiman + Slade. Oh my god.

I love you.

Plus his boat got destroyed!

Look, was Dexter the series given an ignominious end that totally replaced "pulling a Lost" with "becoming a lumberjack" in the public consciousness of bad endings? Sure. Was the final season a mess that offered no momentum, or weight, or consequences, or threat, or thrill, or even sendoff to long-suffering side

It's funny hearing Moffat talk about how awful 2013 was for him, and looking back at those eps, I wonder if he or Matt wishes they could have a do over on the regeneration ep. Something about the last monologue is super cringey to me.

I like it as a concept, but I think the way they stress everything's happening the same way in the end montage, and that rooms reset, suggests the takeaway is meant to be that the only change he makes is on the wall. If it was meant to be that he worked slowly to discover every clue and leave it for his future self, I

You monster.

I see your Rani and raise you the Valeyard. Doctor/Dalek hybrids, somewhere between 12th and 13th reincarnations, and now a Minister of War…

And it was actually him playing, too.

And now there's a Minister of War… I'm just saying!

Yeah, I didn't fall in love with this like everyone else. There were some moments, but it felt pretty formulaic to me. I'll give it a few more chances, because comedies take a while to hit the sweet spot, but it wasn't like Happy Endings where it was just on fire right out of the gate.

Yeah, I found it a bit odd too. I'm not against an AIDS joke, but if you're gonna go there the joke needs to be funny enough to justify its inclusion. This didn't quite get there for me.

I was really hoping, somehow, against all logic, that the Dalek/Time Lord hybrid would somehow precipitate the Valeyard. "Amalgamation of the dark sides between his twelfth and final regenerations," yeah? Well, it's 12, he gave up a regeneration, the Valeyard was evil, Daleks are evil… It just seems like a tantalising