Yeah, I get the feeling she's in a great deal of pain too. How terrible must it have been for her to have been given a holiday house for a family she no longer has?

Additionally, you'd run into problems if a show wasn't consistently maintaining a C+ or B- average, since the potential quality of the show would necessarily be shifting if the median score was shifting — just as an F for a hypothetical episode from Season one of Buffy isn't the same as a hypothetical F for a Season…

grades are based on the hypothetical potentiality of the show

Considering that Murphy's mentioned wanting to bang to cast Finn Wittrock in a role again, and that guy plays gay to the point of typecasting, I imagine we'll get something of the Lavender Scare.

Tonight was entirely about parent/child conflicts, in a way. It'll be interesting to see if the show can tie the Patriots into that schema, or if it'll treat Peter/Aaron/Pricilla as some kind of polyamourous pairing — like Miles/Rachael/Monroe are temporarily, notionally, becoming.

I love that the Patriot's M.O. is to set up false flag operations. That's a terrible, (wonderful) pun.

I feel like the show's moving away from Monroe's (subtextual) unrequited crush on Miles, and I keep on wanting to hedge my bets and drop the idea, but moments like that make me ponder.

Pretty good, but I'd never have picked this as an Edlund script. I'm sensing that the back half of this season — just like Agents Of SHIELD — has shifted to being written by committee. I'm not a huge fan of that approach, but if it works for Lost and Game Of Thrones…

Charlie I'll give you, but Jason? Dude's a great actor, but the part's a complete sketch. He's been pretty good in other roles — e.g. Tim Minear's short-lived Drive — but he's not someone the writers seem invested in.

I'm seeing parallels with Franke Potente's The Shield character/Goggins love interest as well.

The grapevine is that Utopia's coming second season is making some sort of similar radical shift.

There's your problem right there — several of the reviewers have spoken about how the letter grades are conspicuously useless, and nothing to be put stock in. Individual review scores are (reportedly) graded against the potential of a show, and not against other shows (which is a nonsensical system for various…

Wouldn't it have melted a little in her hands?

I've never liked Shoshana very much. I've been entertained by her — she's very funny, and well performed — but I've found her obnoxious and occasionally quite gross in her lack of empathy.

said Shoshanna.

I thought they were staff? I thought I caught them all wearing roughly the same clothes.

Whatever you feel about the show — which is fair enough — Girls is doing quite well for itself right now. It's not like Abbot's going to be hurting for future roles, but a regular gig with good exposure is too good for a jobbing actor to pass up.

Andrew Rannel's been optioned as a regular next season.

I legit enjoyed this, and I wasn't seeing a lot of the characterisation or performance issues that others were seeing, (though I think I'd be making a few different performance choices were I playing Kyra Zagorsky's role). Some of the dialogue was a little spotty but it didn't interrupt my appreciation of the show's…

Did it make it an exhaustive read?