I thought that Joe telling Mark "He was already dead, you couldn't have done anything" might have helped Mark, just a little bit — enough for Mark to want to live another day. Poor Chloe.

Cersei whipping up fear of the invaders reminded me of another blonde-haired wannabe ruler.

Muddy slippers? I saw wet, but no mud. Most people inferred that he pissed himself. I like the interpretation though.

The pizza my husband and I remember most fondly is the one we made from the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee kit. Yep. Maybe it's because we made the crust from scratch. So the theory is true for us — the first pizza is the one all others are measured against. We didn't have pizza in my area until the late 60's — Rocky's in…

I held my breath, wondering whether the physical abuse would come out. Celeste sure wasn't going to mention it first. Will she pay for that? For making Perry confess? Even though he didn't tell the truth, he won't like that someone knows about what he must see as a weakness — his "love" for Celeste, a love that…

I was of two minds: At first I refused to watch because Trump. Then after Trump barfed about the low ratings, I wanted to watch to pump up Ahnuld. Then I just said fuck it, life's too short.

And like so many others, he couldn't put his fucking cell phone down and simply take in the experience. Put down the fucking phones, people!

David Bianculli loved it too. He did sort of warn that the first three episodes are build-up, for those lacking the patience gene.

There's a movie forum at previouslytv.com — which is where a lot of Television Without Pity folks migrated to. Moderation is much more reasonable than TWOP. Check it out.

Nope. Moderation is nuts over there, and the ads carry malware. The original "Don't be a jerk" rule has morphed into something else entirely. Way too much trolling, allowed as free speech or some such stupidity.

Or if you had a question that another board might find silly or shallow — you could ask without feeling like you were being judged. Deep thinking isn't required over there. Or even paying attention. There was, however, some very enlightening discussions on "good" movies.

I read an interview with Kostova shortly after the book came out in which she said [paraphrasing] that she was glad the book was doing so well, because now she could afford to travel to all the places she described in the book.

Tigana is the book that turned me on to fantasy. Lions — I thought that read more like romantic historical fiction.

The Fireman is fun — if a plague causing people to spontaneously combust can be considered "fun". It will remind you of The Stand, and that can't be a bad thing. It's not as original as Joe's other books, but then nothing much is original these days.

I should have scrolled down before posting my comment. One of the early plot devices that bugged me was that the travelers needed to find a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula but couldn't. Is there a library anywhere in Europe that doesn't have the book? Or a bookstore? The book's been in print forever. And the whole…

A big fat No and a raspberry for The Historian. Good premise, execrable writing. Every character spoke with the same voice and the ending is the absolute worst. Terrible, terrible book.

And then they had someone posting in character as Joy — those were fun reads.

It is, but the revamping isn't going so well, is it. It's up, it's down. It wasn't broken, so I don't know why they wanted to fix it.

Yeah, I wanted to see some fall-out over the stolen gift cards. It's nitpicky, but someone would have noticed the kids pilfering from the bags. I expected the ending to be the Johnsons bidding on every bag, so that no one would find out the cards were missing. The rest of the episode was so good — probably the best…

Where's the slap from In the Heat of the Night?