I have zero faith in the survival of Sweet Nurse Girlfriend. The minute he flashed that ring (or Peggy did, I guess), I knew she was doomed. No spoilers, just speculation.

Do-Peg?

For which film?

In dialogue sometime in the last couple of weeks, Malick mentioned that Robert Redford's character in Winter Soldier didn't want to go far enough, or words to that effect. Definitely the same guy who was on the World Council and was v. into nuking New York.

I saw him perform the role at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Was delighted and freaked out by the early moment when, as he's seducing his poor future wife, Richard gets a black leather glove onto his bad hand not by pulling it on with the other, but by sliding it halfway on and then wriggling his fingers until the…

1) Caroline, WHAT an amazing job, thank you! You caught so, so much that I wouldn't have, and I'll be re-reading all of these when I do a calmer second viewing.

Slamming his head in a car door over and over would have been satisfying. Or taking him out with a bowling ball. But we did just see both of those :)

The moment a freshman-year college friend dropped the needle on Patti Smith's cover of "Gloria." 1977. The world opened up into (to quote Ms. Smith) a sea of possibility that I'd never seen before.

Spoiler … you're rooting for the winner (and yes, I know you knew that).

Oh, man, that was … okay, I don't have one favorite moment, but that was WAY up there.

OMG Moriarty! I mean Andrew Scott. (Mind you, I'd adore a crossover.)

I, too, am startled the review didn't mention this fabulous moment - especially considering the paragraph about how the women of SHIELD were kicking butt. Jemma did it too, in brainiac fashion.

1) No, you almost got the anecdote right, but she does NOT say "Springsteen wrote the song for her" - not at all! Here's the passage:

Heard Ms. Smith sing this in December at Webster Hall, on her 68th birthday. The song still holds, and my god, that woman rocks.

Uh, Loki. Which means I really have to disagree with your "always."

I WAS WAITING! Also a damn fine cup of coffee and a side order of bacon, "cremated." (I now always order my bacon cremated, and it works.)

LOVED this episode.

You've sent me running to find video of "Country Feedback" in order to scrub this thing out of my head. (Also, well written! Thank you.)

THANK YOU! Another person who hates "Everybody Hurts" - a song that sends me over the edge of annoyance every time. It feels so … condescending? I'm not sure how to put it into words. I discovered REM in college and although we were all young - including the band - they felt like my very own first grown-up group. That…

Yep - Angela Thirkell, who had a lot of fun adding absurd place names to Trollope's countryside.