It would be odd for a contestant to go into the tournament without having seen previous ones or at the very least, some regular games, from which, as @avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus noted, they'd know that a score >$15K was very competitive with >$20K an outstanding result and a runaway for most games.

It's interesting to compare Grimm and Once Upon a Time, the former premiering only five days after the latter in October of 2011, and how both had similar sounding premises but treated their fairytale foundations far differently.

…just a few weeks (?) ago, Renard was still trying to force Adalind into domestic submission.

The irony, though, is that despite the Hexenbiest thing being a non-dealbreaker for Nick when it came to Adalind, it really did turn Juliette into a monster, so in that respect her fears were justified.

I've tried keeping up with Emerald City since it's being directed by Tarsem Singh, but despite the exquisite visuals and beautiful design it usually ends up putting me to sleep.

…it's really disturbing that he left his daughter for at least a whole day with a stranger bent on revenge. He couldn't know that she wouldn't murder the guy.

Wow.

Granted this episode was mostly a lark, but Diana casually tossing around a grown man, who, admittedly, had kidnapped her, and inflicting such violence upon him to leave him bloody and bruised, all in the name of play and fun, points to either a serious lack of empathy or bad upbringing, or both.

Either that or as an honorary member of team Grimm after she realizes Wu isn't such a bad guy after all once he's off the amor de infierno and she shares his fondness for dry quips.

Despite whatever last-minute shenanigans the AVC corporate overlords try to pull, our faithful and esteemed reviewer pulls through nonetheless with discussion bullet points that comprise a review in all but name.

Finally realized that Broussard is the former military and undercover ops guy and not the older, former CIA guy, which is about par for the course for me considering I was convinced that Helena and Nolan's ex-wife were the same person for most of last season.

Read that as "Santorium" and imagined something like the misinterpreted vomitorium, but for the other end.

Not a close reader of the Bible, but my understanding of Jesus and his teachings, especially the Beatitudes, is that they line up pretty closely with many values modern liberals claim to hold, including helping the weak and poor, and that modern conservatism, with its emphasis on unregulated freedom to exploit and…

I wasn't paying close attention and thought it was a college stunt, but it still irks since it sounds like something more applicable to kindergarten or grade school.

I'd just be thankful he never holds public office or any position of authority, up to and including hall pass monitor, ever again.

"Cognitive dissonance" doesn't even begin to describe self-proclaimed Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists who supported Trump and still continue to do so.

That "big girl" comment was extremely annoying as I've never heard the complementary phrase "big boy on campus" at least as applied to either high school or college.

But not the popular vote.

The loving looks she gives Monroe as he goes into one of his historical anecdotes are what every obscure-reference-reciting nerd wishes he had.

The mercerized tape girdle from the 1911 catalog ushered me into manhood.