I'd like to share your optimism, but I don't recall him ever having to be so absurdly pantomime Laaandahn last season, so in this respect things seem to be deteriorating.

So Barbara is nuts, Lee just stands around looking pretty and worried, Bullock's girlfriend is a scold, Miss Kringle is reduced to a pair of goey eyes with a ponytail stuck on now the previously creepy Mr Nygma has literally thrown himself at her, and there's an assassin chick who couldn't be more clichéd if they'd…

I don't think you can just fire your guardian like that, can you?

Apparently Bruno Heller is actually from London so tonight's really
weirdly overly British Alfred was, I guess, based on slang that actually
happens in the real world?

Well, at least she went on to better - or at least more steady - things.

focus more on the brothers' rape and abuse by the church

I quit watching CSI after Grissom left - he was the only one I actually liked. Though I felt they kind of ruined the character when they paired him with Sara, which made no sense. Bring back Lady Heather! Sigh.

As a regular and avid viewer back when it first aired, I've been rewatching The X-Files over the last few years (I like to take my time with these things). My box set includes the movie, and I actually went to see it at the cinema back then, but on my rewatch I … skipped it. Couldn't be arsed. Something with aliens…

Happy Birthday!

Season 3 of Arrow followed by season 1 of AoS?! Are you trying to put yourself off superhero TV for life?

I quite liked the lead on Limitless, though he's a bit bland. I also like, eh, whatsername, Dexter's sister. So that part of it worked for me.

I had to google Racines cake, and now I'm hungry. So I guess that's a yes, at least until it causes my waistline to expand beyond its already borderline intolerable rotundity into the nightmare of "need new clothes".

Plus the owner did the cooking and seemed to take an interest in what
was being left so I had to pretend I was ill instead of unspeakably
grossed out.

I don't know, what are you suggesting I do with it? Eating is out of the question, as I'm a vegetarian. But sealed in a freezer bag, it might make a satisfying projectile? I could do with one of those.

That certainly sounds like a win-win solution.

Urgh, that sounds terrible. And completely unnecessary.

My last one is under bone

Sorry to hear that. I stubbornly refused to have mine removed until it was actually necessary (I was 43 at the time). They were fully erupted, but the lower two were at a weird angle and dentists had been telling me they'd have to go since basically forever. I just went "nope" to that until one of them developed a…

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway. Harkaway is one of these writers who imagine a wildly absurd scenario and then spin a batshit crazy but also hilarious novel out of it. Tigerman so far appears a bit more restrained and contemplative than his previous two (The Gone-Away World, which was good, and Angelmaker, which was…

so there goes my one source of exercise, my primary means of socializing with others, and the one thing aside from work and grocery shopping that gets me out of the house each week.