Not Ray Charles' "A Song for You."  It is Leon Russell's "A Song for You."  Always has been.

The shows are very, very dissimilar.  The Israeli show deals with the difficulties facing returning POWs.  Period.

So help me with the timeline here.  About five years into his imprisonment, Brody is brought into Abu Nazir's house, given a bath, is shaved and shorn and given a job as English tutor to Isa.  Then, following the strike and Isa's death, he presumably makes a voluntary decision to work against the government that…

Not EVERYTHING in Texas is big.  I was amazed on my first visit to San Antonio to discover that the Alamo is TINY.  If I hadn't been looking for it carefully I would have stepped right over it.  Almost.

I seem to recall a meeting between Nina and Peter early on in Season 1 that took place near a stable, with Nina saying they had spent time there when he was a child.  Now we have Olivia depicted in a photograph with riding medals from her childhood.  Interesting?

I'm just curious why neither wife nor friend has had a conversation with the guy that went a little like this: "As far as we knew, honey/dude, you were dead.  For eight years.  We're awfully glad that isn't the case, but geez, Brody, EIGHT YEARS."  Did you think at some point we didn't decide to resume life, which…

Sorry for the double-post, but I forgot to mention this: That warning the new homeowner couple got, presumably from inside the CIA, struck me as eerily familiar.  Something about the Beltway being crowded, so take an alternate route?  It finally hit me this morning:  that was Jack Bristow's signal to his daughter…

It seems that Carrie is always looking for the broad strokes and always missing out on the fine lines.  There is no reason in the world for her to suspect that the rug remnant in the garage is more important than the smoking gun she is searching for, but her cradling it against her heart is so emblematic of her…

It is yet another difference that in the amber universe Nina is "a viper" to Walter when in the blue the two are collegial, if not positively chummy.  They shared a joint on a bench outside Harvard, she offers reassurance that his powers of observation more than compensate for attributes in which William Bell took…

Rachel is, quite simply, a disaster of a character.  I cannot see what Rachel or her portrayer have going for them when stacked up against the rest of this cast.  OK, the actress is attractive, but she is not a particularly good actress.  And seriously, is there a sudden dearth of good looking young actresses in…

Here's how appealing I found the first episode: I was a few mouse clicks away from buying that Pivot Power strip.  That it, until I realized that I already owned the better version of it, at home: the Poweramid, which takes up far less space because it groups all of the boxy power couplings upward, into a pyramid, and…

Since long before.  Since Trollope, certainly, and I'll be willing to wager there was something set in a Roman villa in Suetonius or Ovid.

How long ago was "Four Weddings and a Funeral?"  I just realized that Lix played Duckface, the stood-up bride with the fine right hook.

Chillax
The All-Stars announced are only for the first week. There will be a revolving cast of All-Stars, and most likely your favorite will show up. Unless, that is, his name is Alex. Freakin. Wong. Poor unlucky duck.

Two things about Peter
1) He is not a field agent, so I totally buy his uncertainty about assuming roles in his new partnership, and
2) Peter is actually pretty damn good at flirting, once he mans up and gets into it. Last season he had a similar case in which he was called upon to pitch some woo and he was totally…