Vivid, but also valid. Abbie's had a rough year, she could definitely use the stress relief.

I got through 3.5 of the showrunner's previous series, which was a procedural that took place in Florida. I had to turn it off halfway through the fourth episode because it was so boring. Everything was tell versus show, there was no story arc to keep you coming back, and the murder mysteries were not particularly…

If they were going to go with not-Ichabod, they could at least have brought back Calvin the Hot War Reporter from the end of S2. He made Abbie smile and blush and would have given Ichabod some real competition for her affections. I liked him, and I wanted to see him take her out on a really nice date.

Didn't she co-write it (or at least Catherine Hardwicke wrote it with enough input from her that she got a writer's credit on it)? Its also largely based on her life, apparently, so that probably makes it easier to be convincing in a role, when you're basically playing yourself.

Oho, THAT is very interesting. I've never seen ALIAS so I couldn't comment on that, but that both track so similarly is…irritating. And of course both guys who (if that's the case) drove amazing shows into the ground because they want to live out their midlife crisis on screen will carry on working in Hollywood and…

"but there's something w time blah blah blah idk."

So does this mean Papa Mills is also sitting on a large pile of Iraqi gold, THREE KINGS-style? I guess that's the explanation for how Abbie can afford that house, which is easily a $1m property, on her junior agent's salary.

I agree with that, especially given the number of plot threads that have been started and dropped without a hint of care, and then just *never mentioned again*. It was really apparent in S2 where they were actually *writing into the script* how much contempt Abbie had for Katrina, and how pissed she was that Ichabod…

This show is a great illustration of what happens when you don't have parity in the writers room, just episode after episode of male-fantasy bullshit where even the leading-lady role has devolved into a two-dimensional eye-rolling sourpuss, making bad "romantic" decisions because…why again? Someone thinks that women…

Interesting about Octavia Butler and Nicole Beharie: the best episodes of S2 were the pilot, and the two with Abbie time-traveling. When the Twitter gang I LT with saw the write-up for Abbie traveling back to the late 1700s we all started thinking about "Kindred" and wondered how they were going to play it (that was…

I want to know the headcount of women versus men on that show, writers, EPs, etc. I know there are two women on the writing team (one of whom may have left for a different job) and I think one or two on the producing squad (with one overlap, Heather Regnier is a writer — one of the better ones — and also a producer.)…

I don't watch that show, although I have friends who are devoted to it. I find the timbre of the two leads' voices so distracting that I can't get through a scene without thinking "Are they putting on "low manly" voices or is that really the way they talk?"

There was ONE beat in the rowboat that kind of gave me pause, and that's when he was talking about how with other adventure partners there had been doubts, and problems, and friction — but with Abbie there had never been any doubt. She kind of looks away at that point and it could be one of two things:

I just kind of wish they'd take this show out behind the barn and put it out of its misery. If they can somehow cauterize the neurons in my brain that hold the memories of its devolution into slapstick and weaksauce "Supernatural" knockoff plots, that would be great too.

Zzzz. This episode was hella boring. I literally had no idea what was going on on "Bear Mountain" (which is not Bear Mountain, that mountain is actually covered in trees — my cousin got married there) because I can't even be bothered to pay attention to the B-plot with the Hidden One, Pandora, whatever. The only…

The theatrical trailer had me howling, the trailers I've seen on TV have been terrible. I'm not sure what to believe. Do I spend the $12 in case its Version A? Or wait til its on TBS in case its Version B?

I'm going to have to disagree. Gene Parmesan is the best TV character name.

This show is nothing if not ham-fisted. I'm so disappointed. Even if I do get my Ichabbie outcome (yes, I'm one of those people), it will be such obvious fanservice at this point, because that relationship has not progressed organically, that it won't be a satisfyingly romantic evolution of that pair. What a drag.

Calvin was great, he's the only one who realistically could give Ichabod a run for his money in the Abbie-wooing department.

That seems optimistic given the persistent fumbling all throughout the season. My trust is just about at zero with this gang.