I thought she faked illness to bring the stewardness near-enough to incapacitate … perhaps in the bathroom … and then switch clothes, and wheel out the still incapacitated - possibly dead - stewardess (now dressed in her clothes/costume) …
it was chilling that Mary would use the stewardess in this fashion and her…

John should have been screaming for an ambulance and a first-aid kit … it was very strange, even "bloodless" — particularly when the camera pulled back to reveal everyone (Mycroft/Lestrade) standing around … the whole confrontation became absurd … Sherlock didn't need either Mary or Watson if Mycroft and Lestrade were…

Those minutes could have been used so much more effectively at the end — perhaps a scene between Molly and John with Rosamund … it was conspicuous big-budget "globe-hopping" … absolutely unnecessary and somewhat implausible … also managing to make Mary-the-less-than-brilliant-fool when Sherlock revealed the memory…

Silence of the Lambs … I wasn't sure that Mary hadn't killed the stewardess — because, Mary — Ninja Assassin

yes, mary was "added" to the show because the writers felt they "needed" her (or because they thought that would be "fun") and now she's killed off because they're done with her …
Mrs. Watson of the stories was far-background figure who died … as people did then … of flu or childbirth … the sort of random death that…

yes, I suspected "Sherlock's" ultra fast robotic delivery was to distract from truly terrible dialog that would have brought the "story" (such as it was) to a screeching halt … again, reminding me of Fellowes at his expository worst

I think John's anger at Sherlock is displaced anger at Mary … for sacrificing herself to protect Sherlock (because he's #1 center of the universe), leaving him widowed and their daughter motherless. He's still in denial about "the woman he married" … it was never going to be ma and pa in front of the telly with the…

It may be regional and/or generational. I have two brothers, one of whom is a step-brother, who's also a half-brother (obviously) … but I never made a distinctions — except that I think "step-brother" was the designation, because he spent every summer with his father (and his second wife, his step-mother) and my…

There is mercifully little mugging and/or desperate attempts by the characters to be likeable or funny.

The film is brazenly artificial and with impossible production values even for the highly privileged individuals it features … it's like a modern day fairy-tale with enchanted cottages and pumpkin chariots being drawn by teams of mice. It does work much better than it should. I have never understood the passion for…

It can work … it can give permission … although I think positive reinforcement works better than any suggestion "you're doing it wrong" …
it's all about expectations … when women want men to be more romantic or spontaneous … but forget they can lead the way by being more romantic and spontaneous their own self.
Everyon…

Yes, and he's still a victim at the center of the toxic masculinity of both the gang rape of Hanna and prison culture and the exhausting one-sided antagonism of Teddy. The horror of the crime against Hanna is forgotten and/or accepted with chilly calmness as the present day focus on Daniel's innocence and/or the…

It's a balance … and a hotly contested issue. I worked an oncology unit for 7 years … it's just like real life, you fall in love with some patients, others you just care for "normally" … it's the folks who spend a lot of time parsing their caring and judging the alleged "overinvolvement" of others who drive the other…

Yes, ineed, her abrupt freeze-out reaction to Daniel's reaction is probably why she has no friends

Sort of like partners who demand more "spontaneity" … more often, like right now! see also more "ardor" or that people be "more romantic" … buzz kill.

However, she does want him to be "more happy" or to feel a "deeper happiness" … she does want to fix him and … if you have experience with this sort of thing (someone else wanting you to feel something) .. it becomes another "failure to meet expectations" which has been a theme for virtually every character.
Chloe has…

As he was applying his belt tourniquet, I half expected the rifle to slip and discharge … either fatally or as a "message from God."

Tawny's simple vigil by Zane's bedside struck me as stark contrast to Chloe's well-meaning, almost hectoring advocacy of therapy for Daniel, and I consider myself pro-therapy. Yet, I feel Chloe has transformed herself from being a friend and a safe space to being yet another person with "ideas" about what Daniel…

Tawney was in uniform and her red mustang was parked in the driveway. Additionally, she didn't look apologetic or panicked at the sight of the housekeeper (and she knew where the key was "hidden"). They were two caregivers, now relieved of their "charge." I liked how Tawney didn't tell the housekeeper that the nephew…

so, no one actually reports back having seen it? Oh dear, poor Jessica.