I can accept that she's in intelligence somehow, but I wonder why Philip (and viewers) should be suspicious of Renee in particular. If Stan's profile of "FBI agent who's lonely and divorced" is the only yardstick, then wouldn't any woman he hooks up with be suspicious? What is it about Renee specifically that gets…

I'm in the dark too!

I've gotten back every five or six years for 3-day visits. Adore it there.

I love that anecdote. I had to leave New York, kicking and screaming. But this is my dream of what I'd have done if I had been able to stay.

Incredible that your great-aunt danced with Valentino! He always attracted a lot of gossip (he was "dark," a foreigner, "the other," seducing pure white women onscreen), as did his wives. The facts of his life are fascinating and really don't need embroidery. But there's something about movie stars. Even when…

I've spent my adult life in silent film studies, and I'll say that the silent-era stuff in Hollywood Babylon is bull. And if that's true of the silent stuff, I imagine it's true of the talkie-era scandals too. It's like reading some crazy conspiracy theorist—tales start with a grain of truth and then go spinning into…

There are shots using similar cone masks in "Dangerous Liasons" as John Malkovich and Glenn Close are powdered by their servants. It had the same monstrous, surreal effect. (But, of course, they aren't plastic in "Liasons.")

She's a terrific dancer.

He did tell Oleg that killing Vlad lies heavily on his conscience. And it's obvious from his actions that Nina does as well. So I wouldn't call Stan a nice guy, but he is not completely immoral and there's a good man there alongside the darkness. To me, the goodness goes beyond endearing traits, though the endearing…

Well, I disagree. I'm not a particular fan of his but I know talent when I see it. My opinion of his work goes back The Wire and The Hour. That said, to each his own.

On Sunday, I was thinking about the time way back in Season One that Noah was teaching Romeo and Juliet to a high school class. The interaction between him and the students was fantastic, and his off-centre interpretation of the play was obviously influenced by his love for Allison. God, I was interested in that guy.…

I don't think the show is going there, but I love your idea of how to "full circle" things.

He's WAY underwritten, almost flat. So I think people see in him what they want to see.

I listened. It struck me that Treem and the writers are on a completely different track than the viewers. It was like watching a deleted scene on a DVD. Usually the director's voice-over is describing how much it hurt to lose this wonderful footage. And at the same time, I'm watching it, thinking "thank God they…

I have no idea what this episode was meant to accomplish. What did it tell us that we don't already know? That Noah hallucinates? That he's addicted to painkillers? That Helen is still in caretaker mode? That they both feel guilty? That Whitney's a mess? Asked and answered, as they say in court. The only thing that…

Well, I think this is one of those "tomayto/tomahto" situations. I don't see any evidence that she's clinging to Noah simply because she needs him to feel dependent on her. But that's the strength of the show. There are a lot of nuances (even in this f'ed-up Season 3) and viewers, like the characters themselves, have…

It was totally over the line to say that, but where you see narcissistic, I see needy. (Maybe I'd say narcissistic if Helen was always this way, but IMO she isn't. But Noah Solloway? Narcissist to the max.)

I've never seen Josh Jackson before. As a newbie, I think he IS Cole Lockhart, heart and soul. Has been from the start.

Tell me about it. I came from a lower-class family but (for reasons that take too long to explain) grew up among the rich ones. I was more or less a scholarship student. I rode my bike to school. Everybody else got in Daddy's Rolls. Luckily, at my (ahem) older age, I see how unhappy most of them are, and think I am…

I don't see Nina as a truth-teller here. She has "her" truth—but the premise of the series is that no one ever knows the whole truth, and that objective truth may not even exist. She has always dismissed Helen as a snob and not much else. My own view is that she has a chip on her shoulder on the issue of class. (That…