I had avoided doing much background research going into this for fear of spoilers beyond the BBCA promos, so at best I knew it was a "distinctly but non-specific Canadian city" and therefore had fun trying to guess where.

You can totally take a train from London to New York. Provided you leave from London, Ont! (bad-dum, tish)

Perhaps not as "shamelessly gay" as Lost Girl, but there was lots of equal opportunity bare-arsery, so fair play to them!

Funny, one of the things I like about this show is that to me it's even more overtly Canadian than Lost Girl.

Exactly this Tyrion is a man who survives through his skill with words, so it's seems perfectly fitting that the character would selectively over annunciate in the same way he very specifically chooses his words. I've no complaints against Dinklage at all.

Fair enough, but one would think for this wesen they wouldn't have needed a full mask and could have done ears, chin and maybe a bit of brow and been entirely convincing. At least more so than the dodgy CGI we saw on screen.

And commence obligatory griping over Juliette…

I have to give this episode some credit:
   -  similar to last week's cementing of Team Grimm around the dinner table, now that Nick, Hank and Renard all know about each other (and all know that they know), both the COW plots and the overarching threads can move along a good deal better than before.
   -  Points also…

So… there was the title card teaser back at year's end that set the mood that the show was going to be modern and suspenseful if not outright sci-fi, but didn't hint at much else about the show. And then mid-winter they ran the trailer featuring Tatiana Maslany as the various personages.
     And I was surprised to…

Would that my schedule had allowed me to comment sooner…

Some people are so quick to dismiss Cooper as "oh he's a struggling ex-addict" or "he's closeted and self-loathing" completely missing that he's struggling to be a good man in a difficult job in spite of having a father who is an absolute monster.

What's sad is once upon a time TNT did make an attempt to make challenging television.

Considering how quickly we pass around "After Hours" clips, I'm not going to pretend how much that is still myself and all my close friends.

I think that's what's most troubling about HIMYM's recent stumblings as CBS and the networks keep stretching it beyond capacity.

Is it bad that I couldn't remember last week's episode for a moment?

Is this the biggest Geek TV weekend ever?

I don't know whether to shake my head or applaud.

I too hope that this show is good - both because sci-fi tv could use a new gem and more good tv of any genre is always good.

Any disincentive would have to focus on pet stores.

True Story by Bill Maher - however you feel about his politics (or Maher himself), the novel did a great job of capturing the era of the 80's comedy boom. It was far from a best seller, but I'm surprised no one else at AVC mentioned it.