Once Upon a Time S03E15: Quiet Minds

Lumiere???  Blasphemy!! There is no Lumiere without Jerry Orbach.

Henry's voice is cracking faster than they can keep up.

The first thing they tell Neal isn't that he's lost a year, it's that his dad is back?

I like Belle's vest outfit, but Neal looks stupid with his leather neck ruffle.

Oh good, this episode hasn't had enough Regina.

Hook/Neal bro hug?? Didn't see that coming.

So are we going to get to watch Regina and Robin fall in love twice??

Listening to a candle sounds like a bad idea.

Rumple's vault is full of the black oil?

When did Neal almost marry a minion of Peter Pan? Wendy?

Is this some sort of Bugs Bunny thing? Neal is only dead if someone knows he is and he looks down?

So Neal melded into Rumple and drove him crazy?

Well that's the worst CGI fire I've ever seen.

I understand that this is supposed to sad, but I just can't seem to care.

I am glad we don't have to spend too much more time trying to figure out that Zelena is the witch.

Rumple's foundation looks a shade too orange.

So was Neal inside Rumple for the past year?

Hannibal S02E05

Hannibal looks goooood in that sweater.

RIP Beverly

Of course this will just add fuel to Will's "Hannibal did it" fire.

Why are they letting Will see her body?

This episode is very oblique.

Alana Bloom is such a cutie.

This score is very Kabuki-esque. Is that in keeping with the Japanese titles of the episodes this season?

The Wire S01E10: The Cost

Why is Bubbles so sad?

Wallace turned real fast. :-/

I knew this Orlando asshole was bad news :(

The Wire S01E09: Game Day

Bubbles is going to get into real trouble one of these days.

The guy who runs Orlando's has such bad hair.

The Wire S01E08: Lessons

McNulty is getting his kids to spy on a drug dealer. Father of the year.

Daniels doesn't SEEM dirty...

McNulty seems very uneasy taking this favor from the judge.

Why is McNulty so surprised that Stringer is going to a community college? Guy seems smart. 'member how smart he looked in that suit in court?

Hahaha. Macroeconomics. Smart guy, that Idris Elba.

Wait - what happened to the dead lady??

I don't know what's going. Who is shooting whom??

So Lester thinks this woman who is D's girlfriend is a CI? But whose?

The Wire S01E07: One Arrest

Hmm. So Avon is changing things up anyway?

I've heard people say they could never do heroin because they don't like needles. It's the tourniquets that make me squeamish.

"Constablating" is a good word.

So this front guy from the club wants to use Avon's distribution system to peddle someone else's product? D won't go for that.

The Sergeant is more or less a good guy.

The Wire S01E06: The Wire

Ayup.

This isn't sitting right with Wallace, who we've just established as a kid who means well.

Why is the Major being such a dick? Why doesn't he just come out and say what he means. And if taking one detective our of rotation throws everyone off, maybe they should hire another detective.

D's got a nicer closet than I do.

See, I think waiting on a roof to see when someone's using the phone sounds like the fun part of detective work.

I wonder where they go to deal in the winter.

Haha, Lester's bringing the index cards to the job.

"Cool, whatever. Your honor." :)

Why do these two have it in so bad for Preston?

See? Here's the thing. The thing that gets Daniels and McNulty on the same side.

The Wire S01E05: The Pager

How did McNulty know about Avon Barksdale in the first place?

The bug? Is that HIV?

This Sergeant is so vulgar.

Aww, D is so happy that his two little proteges aren't snitches.

Why do I get the feeling that Omar's boyfriend is going to get killed?

So who's this guy in the hospital? D's uncle? But Avon is D's uncle, so is this Avon's brother?

They're tailing Omar right into the cemetery? A bit conspicuous, no? Oh, Omar drew him there.

Aww, poor McNulty. Custody battles are ugly things.

This sequence with the incoming and outgoing pager numbers is cool. Also: payphones. Remember them?

The Wire S01E04: Old Cases

Now I'm starting to really get into it. Let's go, episode 4!

I like quiet whittling detective.

Kima and Bubbles are cute together.

Avon's forehead is huuuuuuge.

McNulty is taking the snitch to his kid's soccer game?

Wait, is D'Angelo confessing to that murder that McNulty didn't want?

Why does this judge care so much about Barksdale anyway?

There are so many games in this show - crosswords, sudoku, word search... (And the chess, of course)

Quiet whittling detective gets shit done. (But what's his name? And why is McNulty staring at him?)

Lester Freeman! He has a name now.

I like this scene where they're at the old crime scene and communicating entirely with the word "Fuck"

Yup, this murder was D'Angelo's.

Working for the pawn shop unit of the police sounds like a job I would like.

Lester is my new favorite character.

Kima's hair is purty.

The Wire S01E03: The Buys

Okay. Episode three. Here we go.

Bubbles' plan would be shot if someone decided to buy the red hat.

The opening credits are a bit long for a binge-watch.

Wait, a pawn can get turned into a queen if it makes it to the other side of the board? That's not how I remember chess.

Who are these people in the van?

Good thing their stash got stolen, right? (They did get their stash stolen, right?)

Oh, I thought Kima was going to go stop the cops from beating on the guy, not join them.

I wonder if there are cops that don't fall into the TV stereotypes, and what they're like.

I don't really believe Daniels is dirty. I don't trust this FBI guy.

This was going to be my last episode for the night, but now I need to watch another.

The Wire S01E02: The Detail

"Bullet Pancake" is my new band name.

I keep wanting the judge to be David Costabile.

The tall lieutenant was in LOST, right?

I like D'Angelo a lot more after his little monologue about the guy who invented chicken nuggets.

I really like that bright orange sofa in the courtyard.

Well, no, D'Angelo wouldn't have seen McNulty watching the trial. He was facing the judge, not the gallery.

Will they ever get back to the tragic murder of Snot? Or was that very first scene just setting the atmosphere?

I wonder why the highrise is more desirable than the lowrise.

If you kill a witness after he's testified you can't get in trouble for witness tampering. Makes sense to me.

I can't wait for McNulty and Lt. Lost to start working together. They'll be on the same side on something and then they'll be in together.

I also keep wanting McNulty to be Jeremy Sisto.

Wait, who is the superior? Avon Barksdale or Stringer Elba?

Does Munch show up in this series? I sure hope so.

D'Angelo has real pretty handwriting.

So the two buddy cops and loose trigger cop decide to go hassle the people in the highrises and they get stuff thrown at them. Dumbasses.

Pryzbwhatever was that born-again Christian murderer in L&O.

Cops on TV get yelled at so much and still keep their jobs. I can't imagine having a job in which my boss frequently chews me out for messing up but doesn't fire me. Oh wait, I can, but my mess ups don't involve the public's safety.

Lt. Lost's bedroom looks like a hotel room.

The Wire S01E01: The Target

This guy (the protagonist?) doesn't have a name yet that I've managed to discern.

This show sure doesn't bother with exposition, does it.

Idris Elba is so fine.

So the homicide detective told the judge that this guy is the big drug guy, and the judge passes the information along to narcotics. Do I understand everything so far?

Why does this Major guy keep his office so dark?

McNulty! He has a name!

"Beshitted" is a good word.

Haha. A beeper.

This episode uses lots of shots of security camera monitors.

FBI?? Why is McNulty going over to the Bureau?

It's so weird that this is post-9/11 but the technology still seems so dated.

The Walking Dead S04E15

Zombie dinosaurs?? This guy has the right idea.

Awwwww, look at him smile!!

Let me guess - someone is going to try to "claim" a woman. (Beth?)

This woman whose name I don't know is smart.

Daryl's gang leader is interesting. He's not wrong. Well, not about everything.

The shape of GI Ginger's hair is just unreal.

Are we going to have to watch each group of characters go through this tunnel?

There's really a lot of variance in the speed and strength of these zombies. They're unpredictable.

Those big hoop earrings have got to be a hazard. And how does she keep her eyebrows so perfect?

:) :) :) :) :)

What will they find at Terminus??

Daryl is such a softie, covering up the corpse of the guy who stole his rabbit.

Gang leader doesn't have eyebrows.

Tony is enough for a reckoning. *Nod*

Bates Motel S02E04: Check-Out

Did Emma just get her cherry popped in a room at the motel she works at? Classy.

What is this lady's angle?

This season needs more Sheriff.

This girl is kind of an asshole. And like, an asshole just for the sake of being an asshole.

So Norman doesn't tell Emma what's up, but he tells stranger-chick?

Aww, he prefers girls to be conscious when he sleeps with them. What a gentleman.

Oooh is Norman going to channel his rage?

Emma is so intelligent and sensible.

"She's kind of taken with you." Like...in lesbians?

I dunno, if I were a drug kingpin and the sheriff wanted to be buddies with me, I think that'd be okay.

Scaring people with tire irons may be okay for thugs with your everyday personality disorder. But bring Norman Bates, THE Psycho, to "scare" someone with a weapon? Baaaaad idea...

As much fun as bashful "Aw shucks" Norman is, I'm looking forward to seeing his transformation into Psycho Norman Bates.

Lem ain't gonna make it out of this town alive.

"I've been silenced long enough" Is he channeling Norma?

Whaaaaaaaat?

No cop says to the sheriff that he "just" has to get out there right away. The cop would say what the situation is.

Whose house is this?

Crisis S01E02: If You Are Watching This, I Am Dead

The eyebrows on this show are not up to par with other TV eyebrows. (Exceptions: 666 Lady and Gillian)

Oooh, is Gillian going to pull a Ransom?

This ambassador guy could have some serious power brows going on is he trimmed and shaped them a bit.

Beth Ann would be BFFs with Bradley from Bate Motel.

Oh sure. Have the Pakistani parents kill someone.

Is this masked guy making himself sound like Bane on purpose?

This show needs more Gillian Anderson and less everything else.

I *love* her suit-dress. Great cut. Great color.

Well getting that keycard was really easy and didn't even require killing the guy.

I would not have taken my eyes off the Ambassador, if I were them.

Meh. I'll keep watching.

Once Upon a Time S03E14: The Tower

Oooh, a giant CGI castle!

Ouch. That dagger can't give a very good shave, I'm sure.

Okay. Who's her dad?

What was that thing in the jar? Petrified poop?

When did Charming work at an animal shelter?

Wait, so who's the queen of the castle now? Snow or Regina?

You have a sense of dread because babies are always bad news in fairy tales.

Uh oh. Is she going to make tea with tannis root?

"Here, let me tell you my story."

The witch is Sadako?

Now the camera zooms in on the tea mug JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT that it was spiked.

What's ironic about a farmhouse? Because Dorothy was from a farm? I don't get it.

Not Sadako, a Ring Wraith.

Is that supposed to be, like, Mrs. Gulch's bike?

It's like Link vs. Dark Link.

This whole Rapunzel thing is kind of a worthless  diversion.

Rapunzel's fear was like, really easy to defeat.

Geez. TV dads and their desire to protect their families.

"Sorry guys! False alarm. It wasn't the witch, it was just my own fear of being a failed father."

So Emma got the message that David thought he found the witch and she STILL went to pick up Regina first?

Wait, how long had she been in the tower? Since before the curse?

Ohhh is she going to steal someone else's brain? And then someone's heart?

Why does Regina look so pleased?

Hannibal S02E04

A three-part teaser: the fishing, the jail cell, the hive

I would be soooo pissed if my wife killed herself and Hannibal Lecter was her therapist and I found out Hannibal was a murderer.

The soundscape in this episode is very weird.

Is he going to get Chilton on his side??

"I'm supporting my wife." Cute.

This is so sad :(

Once again the only show that makes me squeamish.

Nice jail/dining room set piece.

Yeah lady, you're not acting suspicious AT ALL.

Oh. She's just confessing.

He'd better not eat her...

That is a nice hospital room.

Ohhhhh don't get caught, Beverly! You can't help Will if you're dead.

Hannibal looked suuuuuper menacing!

The X-Files S06E17: Trevor

"Dear Diary, Today my heart leapt when Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion." Heh.

Scully's eyebrows are awesome this episode.

Isn't that Officer Dani Sofer??

Episodes with convicts are usually pretty good.

In this day and age, unlike the 90s, having someone's phone number doesn't necessarily mean you know where they live. What with land lines being a thing of the past, and all.

I just suddenly got sad that my boyfriend and I might never have a shared phone number. We might never have a voicemail message with both of our voices, all cute-like.

Awww, poor boyfriend is pouting.

This guy's gonna be dead.

Surely the guy could look at the house and know she spent all the money.

Unless her sister's kid is really hers.

Pinker staring through the hole in the phone booth is actually kinda sad.

The X-Files S06E16: Alpha

The Hound of the Baskervilles?

Wow. That "Yo quiero Taco Bell" reference makes NO sense outside of the 90s.

Ghost dog?

Okay, that wolf thing looks more suited to Are You Afraid of the Dark than The X-Files.

That's no sir!

I like this lady.

"How well do you know anyone you meet on the internet." Well that holds up, at least.

Is Detweiler the dog?

Scully is so good about identifying herself.

 This episode is kind of silly, but the dhole is more deadly than some other monsters have been.

Law & Order: SVU S15E17: Criminal Stories

I thought Alec Baldwin was quitting being a celebrity?

Closure? Nah. That actor (Pablo Schroeder?) is too good to pass up.

I miss L&O TOS :(

Why would a hate crime make the cops look bad?

They really use that iPad whenever they can.

Really? "How many times do I have to tell that guy to Always Be Closing?" Seriously? Way to be subtle, SVU.

Fin gets to enter his socks into evidence. That's a new one.

Didn't the ME say that Alec Baldwin dated some of the people in that office? Why are they not the first suspects for talking to the press?

I'm kind of surprised Barba brought this to trial.

Uh, witness testimony counts as fact if you believe it. That's how it works. At least in Massachusetts.

"You'll have fun and meet new people" would not be enough to entice me to go to a party.

A medical report can't show that someone is a virgin.

Any juror who read that story shouldn't have been eligible to sit on the jury...

Did Alec Baldwin do it on purpose? Cause a mistrial?

Person of Interest S03E16

I'm not sure how this all fits into the timeline, but I'm sure the writers are keeping good track of it.

They do a good job of making this Dillinger guy feel fleshed out. And also of making him seem inferior to John.

That beardy guy's haircut was very early 90s.

All kinds of coincidences here!

Dillinger's got some chiseled jawline. Rowr.

This lady's eyebrows are terrible. They're like the opposite of Snow White's eyebrows.

Wasabi torture? That's a new one.

The writers are pretty good at making the machine itself - its code and how it works - sound very specific and at the same time totally vague.

I don't even really remember who all these parties are :-/ Who was X-Files guy, again? He had Reese's partner in his employ after the China thing, but that's all I really remember...

Is John gonna corner him and pull his teeth and let him go. Teeth aren't very good proof of death. Who's in charge here, the evil queen?

It might have been more interesting to see John ruthless rather than merciful.

She seems like she'd be really annoying to have as a partner.

I'll be interested to see whether they make all this relevant to today or if it's just background/filler.

They have no qualms about Shaw being ruthless. (Or is it just that Dillinger meant so little?)

Ah, so this is why Reese was supposed to be killed in China. Still, I'd rather there be a connection to the present day than it just be more information.

Wait, is that Mr. Lambert (Walter White)'s cottage?

Oh good. Casey is being wrapped into today's plot. With Root. Huh.

Once Upon a Time S03E13

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I would not want a toy that could potentially turn back into a vicious flying monkey.

Robin Hood was in Storybrooke? I thought he was one of the people who got left behind? Or was everyone transported to Storybrooke the second time around? Like, Aurora and Mulan, too?

Sometimes I'm not sure if the show has continuity errors or if I just don't remember stuff.

Yay for the beginning of the Regina/Robin pairing. What portmanteau are the shippers using? Regina Hood? Robina?

But Cora was killed in Storybrooke. (Wasn't she?) Why would her crypt be in the Enchanted Forest?

So the Wicked Witch wants to get her hands on Snow's baby? Is that the reason for the curse? And why is it taking Henry so long to grab his coat?

It's kind of confusing that the woods around Storybrooke look exactly the same as the woods in the Enchanted Forest.

Oooh, I wonder if Robin is into choking. That would be a good match.

She plans to use it on herself, duh.

Her boobs look so great in that dress.

But her hair looks awesome-r in Storybrooke.

"I'm not well-verse in cons." Srsly, Rgna?

Grumpy is so fucking dramatic.

Well surely you saw it coming once he started to grow a tail, right?

She didn't need to break the blood magic, you left the door open!

Ooh, are they sisters?

They're sisters.

So it IS personal. Bo-ring.

So Rumple only really stayed dead for one whole episode. Typical. (But good, I like Rumple)

Bates Motel S02E03: Caleb

Is Norma making a friend?? That's so great!!

Uh oh, where is she going to introduce her around?

Ohh Lem, you don't look so good.

They're playing Macklemore at Bradley's memorial? (I only know it's Macklemore because the captions said so...)

Is this chick a new love interest? Already?

She looks like Ashley from Degrassi.

I'm sure this episode is building to something, but it sure is boring.

Let me guess: she's Nick Ford's daughter.

Ohhhhhh snap.

Hannibal S02E03

That is a very dramatically lit courtroom.

I bet the costumer for this show just loves dressing Hannibal so very much.

Cynthia Nixon is displeased.

We like the lawyer.

"You may not be guilty" is not the same as "You may be innocent."

We haven't seen her yet this season. Freddie.

That's a church hat, Freddie, not a court hat.

Alana Bloom is so cute.

"Stare-y and non-blinky" and "*adorable*" - lawyer guy is great!

Whose apartment was that?

Mads' lips are sooooo sexy.

Wait, so is Hannibal doing these murders? Or actually someone else?

According to Will it's someone who the bailiff would have thought of as a friend...

Is Abigail Hobbes the only named protagonist to have been murdered so far?

The Walking Dead S04E14

Brass knuckles, Carol? Will those be useful against zombies?

Hm. The stupid girl isn't quite so stupid after all.

I guess it's nice that the girls are kind of developing characters.

Now what do you do with a problem like Lizzy.

Kids who grow up in this don't have any concept of death.

Is Carol really not going to tell Tyrese that she's the one who did it?

This is a pretty good episode. Lots of questions about death and killing and being a good person.

I have to wonder if killing Lizzy was the only way, but what else could they do?

Crisis S01E01: Pilot

So far, lots of cliches. But at least there's Gillian Anderson.

What about those two kids in the bathroom?

Why is Secret Service guy rescuing chubby kid?

I know that woman. She's from 666 Park Avenue, I think.

That little teaser at the beginning of the episode could have been a lot more intriguing.

Oooh, who's that guy? He looks familiar.

I can't foresee this show lasting more than a season. It's too Flashforward-y.

And that kid is the second coming of the kid from The Sandlot.

This Secret Service guy is really giving away his upper hand by phoning in on the walkie.

666 Lady has great eyebrows.

Oh no, is Secret Service guy dead?

Uhh....is this a Metallica cover by a children's chorus? Ewwwww

This is all just pretty heavy-handed and far-fetched. But again, Gillian Anderson.

Oooh, is Gillian Anderson's daughter really 666's daughter?

The X-Files S06E15: Arcadia

This reminds me of the old folks community my grandparents lives in.

Mulder is enjoying this tooo much

It's kind of like the episode with the nice village of satanists.

That is not the same watch he had last episode.

Is this where M. Night Shayamalan got the idea for The Village?

We still don't know who sent the Klines that windmill thing

Ohhhhh that's who.

Don't you know? X-Files don't go to court.

This tulpa sounds like a golem.

Why would it kill its creator if that would destroy it?

Kind of an unsatisfactory ending.

The Following S02E06

The shy twin looks like a kid I knew in college. I'd been trying to put my finger on it.

Interesting that Lily's "kids" tip-toe around the idea that Lily and Joe had sex. Then Mandy just out and says it.

What's Joe's angle here with Emma?

His eyes are just so brown.

I like Max.

So is Lily supposed to out-crazy Joe here?

Has Iceman gone a bit crazy? Or is that a retractable blade?

Nice, Emma. Smirk when your boyfriend kills someone. Real nice.

I guess Mandy still doesn't get to go on an airplane.

Very little of this has actually been Joe's doing so far.

Anger issues, much?

The Walking Dead S04E13

So Bob leaves Sasha alone so that Maggie won't be temporarily alone?

Did Daryl just get recruited into a gang?

The X-Files S06E14: Monday

Why does she keep trying to save Mulder if everyone gets killed.

This guy is a terrible bank robber.

Pretty interesting episode. Not much to day about it.

The X-Files S06E13: Agua Mala

This reminds me of an early season episode. Fluke Man, maybe?

Why couldn't it just be an octopus? There's nothing supernatural about that, Scully.

I like this episode's characters, and its almost naive exuberance.

This gun-toting guy is like the proto-George Zimmerman

So Scully is just Mulder's Watson, as it were?

Person of Interest S03E15

Job well done!

Is Fusco like the go-to guy now?

This episode is wicked cliched.

This episode is pretty boring and not very good.

"There is no dead in team" is the best part about this episode.

Law & Order: SVU S15E16: Gambler's Fallacy

Is...is that Donal Logue? It totally is.

I don't notice anything unusual about Rawlins' hair. Amaro is pretty clingy.

Well this is different...

Are there only three detectives and Liv now?

Rawlins (I think it's Rollins, but I like Rawlins more) and Amaro are each kind of a load of trouble.

Fin is a lot less paternalistic than Amaro in his concern for Amanda.

I don't think any of the main squad cops (on any L&O) has ever been dirty. Like, Vic Mackey dirty. This is as close as it gets - nonviolent and under duress.

Sondra has pretty hair.

Amaro is such a concern troll.

Ugh, did they only rape the wife so that SVU would be called and they could get Rawlins on it? Despicable, of course.

Rawlins probably should have identified herself to the wife as a cop when she arrived on the scene, no?

But why would an illegal gambling club bother dabbling in art theft? Unless they're art thieves dabbling in gambling? OH RIGHT! Art History major!

Wasn't that art dealer a rapist professor a number of seasons back?

The closed captions captioned Donal Logue's Irish accented "idiot" as "eejiot"

Nice touch invoking Det. Wheeler, tho.

It would be really ironic for Rawlins to get fired when Amaro never was.

I wonder if this would have been more effective if Rawlins got in with this crowd over the course of a few episodes. They escalated her gambling over a few episodes, sure, but what if her involvement with these guys was more entrenched. It would be a more dramatic arc, I think.

Aww. Too bad Rawlins went off the handle. Why couldn't Amaro get fired instead?

Is she seriously faking her water breaking? And Rawlins fell for it?

Whaaaaaaaat???

Donal Logue is undercover!?!?!?!

Didn't see that coming.

Ohhhhh! She knew the whole time??

Even his accent was fake? Oy. And he refers to himself in the third person.

Oh come on, Fin should know better than to give Rawlins shit for not telling him.

Poor Rawlins.

Don't look so smug, Amaro.

True Detective S01E08

This is the last episode??

The opening song reminds me of Murder by Death.

This guy is creepy as fuck.

What a shithole. The ol' rural poverty horror show.

This scene is unlike anything we've seen yet in the show.

I still don't remember who this guy is. Was he another detective?

Was he the same guy that was on the riding mower in the earlier episode?

Haha, it's that guy!

I guess they couldn't pull a fake sniper gambit after Breaking Bad already did it.

Okay, but the bad guy does not have a spaghetti face or green ears. Oh they're going to talk about that now.

"Fuck you, man" = "Nice one, Marty."

"Best to avoid her name" He hasn't said her name. "She" is sufficient.

I'm hot for the curl of hair tucked behind Rust's ear.

"Is she still living?" "Alive, you mean?"

I hope that bar owner guy never says a word.

I feel a lot more comfortable with the present-day structure in this episode.

Now the show is using visual tropes of horror films. The first person perspective with heavy breathing, etc.

Very "Home"-like - in the X-Files sense.

I'm a little disappointed that it all comes down to the tired inbred hillbilly cliche. Surely there's more to it...?

The stick figures are no more than Texas Chainsaw-style homespun crafts, marking an impoverished house of rural horrors.

They're doing a good job, as far as this trope goes. It's creepy and suspenseful and uncomfortable. But it's not new. (What about this show led me to expect new? The hype? The ambiguous narrative structure? The big names and big budget that come with an HBO production? (And am I only disappointed because everyone tweeting about letdown and backlash?))

This basement ruin with the branches (and mummies) is pretty. Like a moribund Narnia.

Hannibal uses antlers and bones and bodies to a more interesting and pointed effect. Here they're just decor. A motif.

The guy is even wearing a Michael Meyers jumpsuit.

Mylar balloons? That seems like an inappropriate get well gift for this situation.

I still don't *really* understand why those detectives suspected Rust. Or why they deemed it necessary to bring all three of them in for such extended questioning.

This scene I like. "I'm fine" and then crying.

Next I would like Woody and Matt to do this show again, but as a comedy.

The detectives are interesting. The case itself was not.

"I could feel my definitions fading."

He wasn't looking out the window, he was looking at his reflection.

Light vs. Dark? Really? You're going to reduce all the gray in this show to light vs. dark?

--

Okay, so here's why I had expected a higher standard of narrative innovation about the villain: throughout the show, they have been showing characters living in the backwaters of Louisiana and giving them reality and depth. Example: Dory's ex had personality beyond just "skinhead inmate." The show was rooted in the history of the region - references to dates and hurricanes. And then for the final chase, it twists into fantasy (ie, my Narnia comment). They set up a reality and the villain was outside of that reality. That could have been a choice, to illustrate the character's delusion. But for me it was too much of a stylistic break.

Once Upon a Time S03E12: New York City Serenade

They really dropped the ball by not time-stamping that "One Year Ago" as "Once Upon a Year Ago"

Are those just fancy city park trash cans with fires in them? They totally are. Is Sleeping Beauty a hobo??

Emma has a date? With this shrimpy guy?

Is he going to propose?

Ooh neck scar. What's the story there?

I would totally take the pirate over shrimpy guy.

He proposed with an ice cream sundae? Talk about milquetoast. (And I say that as someone who loves ice cream.)

And he owns a furniture shop? He must be a bad guy in disguise as a mediocre guy.

"He's okay" isn't really a glowing endorsement for a stepfather.

So in this retconned memory Emma told Henry the truth about his dad.

I thought Jiminy Cricket spoke English...

Wait, so Snow and Charming, who are always about finding a way back to each other, won't let Neal see if there's any possibility that there's a way to get back to Emma?

Ooh, nice plaid pants, Emma.

The curse was retconned, but shouldn't Neal have still stayed in the real world?

I love that pronunciation of parents. "Perents."

I cannot believe the police went along with that plan. "I'm going to go meet with this guy that assaulted me and then you arrest him. Deal?"

I thought they retook the castle before they got married? Was that a different castle?

Those are some fab lashes, Regina.

Aww, she said "our" castle.

The whole show had been about getting Emma to believe. So now they're rehashing that.

They had better explain where Hook got that potion. (Rumple?)

When the curse hit, Belle was Regina's prisoner, not wearing a pretty purple dress. (And what shade is that lipstick??)

Regina must have a powerful Aquanet spell for that coif.

I knew it!

Wait. Walsh was a flying monkey? Not even a person? That is weird. Like. Emma had sex (I assume) with a flying monkey.

Are...are those shoulder ruffles?

Emma & Henry VS. Norma & Norman: FIGHT!

Okay, but if they go to Maine who is going to pay their rent?

Oh yes. She needs her red leather jacket. It has powers.

I thought Storybrooke was supposed to have disappeared? Are they going to actually explain this or am I just supposed to accept it? It could go either way with this show...

I don't understand yet what the downside of this new curse is.

They really didn't want to have to make a plot of getting Emma to believe again, do they. So they magicked it away. I guess with this show they can do that.

 That is one terrible CGI monkey.

This really just feels like a new season. How many episodes are left? And then what?

Hannibal S02E02

Not many shows make me wince. That first scene did.

Good on this guy for not running to the first person he sees for help.

Are we going to watch this guy try to escape just to see him recaptured and tortured? Whyyyyy

A cornfield on a cliff??

"I am the unreliable narrator of my own story."

Oh Hannibal. You are so strangely sexy.

I ship Will Graham and Hannibal big time. Second only to Reese & Finch in POI, maybe.

Starting an episode at the tail end of an intense conversation is interesting. I'm not immersed yet.

I think they could have done something more interesting with the opening credits.

Oh no. Is Gillian leaving the show? I would be so sad. She's like an extra little present whenever she shows up.

That's insulting. "You're not smart enough to figure this out yourself. You must have talked to Will."

Jack's hairline is asymmetrical and it's distracting.

I hope the forensic lady never gets kidnapped and need rescuing. That would be so trite. (And what's her name again??)

Hannibal tries his hand at Will's "Method Forensics"

Will is trying to play Hannibal, but what's the game?

These individual cell cages are weird. When would they ever have more than one person in one at once?

Will looks like he's wearing pajamas in that jumpsuit.

So now Hannibal's just as good as will at profiling killers?

Neat shot of the bodies in Hannibal's iris.

"You've never seen anything like this." "I'm sure I haven't." Ha ha.

So Hannibal added the artist to the artwork? Why? So he can one-up anyone whose handiwork overshadows his own?

Yet another therapist enters the picture. I've never known a show with so many therapists.

It's about time we get cooking!

They should do a cannibal edition of Top Chef or Iron Chef or Chopped or one of those shows.

Jack just referred a doctor to see her patient as a doctor. I feel like that's a faux pas.

This show is sooooo good!! Ugh!

I wonder if the FBI flags everyone who buys a clear plastic rain suit and booties. They should.

That's bullshit, Hannibal. You did not kill the killer for the killer's sake.

One does not plea innocent. One pleads not guilty.Will will plead innocent.

"Hannibal Lecter's therapist. What's that like?" hehehe

Maybe Gillian can help Will!

"The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive." Hm.

True Detective S01E07

Why is there a jelly fish in the opening credits? That seems...out of line with the other imagery.

Now we're in new territory narratively/structurally

McConaughey's old age make-up looks different outside the police station. (I cannot spell that without thinking its misspelled.)

It's kind of odd to me that Marty hasn't remarried. He seems like the remarrying type.

Rust's in-between hair does not look so good.

Every now and then Marty says something that makes me picture him decades ago as a young bartender in Cheers.

Niiiice place!

Without the flashback scenes I feel like I'm floundering a little bit. I don't know where the edges of the plot are. It's a little exciting and a little nerve-wracking. They do have these other little flashbacks, but it's almost like they're not real. They're reenactments.

What is "carcosa"?

Portrait of two broken men. Meh.

I don't remember who this guy is.

That's some gut Marty's got.

Is this a boat ambush? Like in Top of the Lake? Is Rust going to come out of the cabin with the car battery?

Yup.

I wonder about the etymology of the word "bayou." I've never heard of anyone refer to a bayou anywhere but Louisiana.

All the information comes from guys on riding mowers.

Are those scars? And did he just finish that sentence creepily on purpose?

Nice music. Atmospheric.

Bates Motel S02E02: Shadow of a Doubt

Am I supposed to be worried for Bradley that she'll get caught? Cuz I don't really care if she gets caught.

"We"? Who is we?

Ohh, so the Blue Fairy was the daughter of the rival drug guy?

"It's not written on some stone tablet that that's the way it has to be" - is that a LOST reference?

I want Norma to audition for South Pacific and to get cast and for it to turn into a Golden Girls-esque scenario.

"We sing all the time." What a declaration.

Standing up to go is a nice gesture, but kind of empty when you're handcuffed to the table.

And where exactly is Bradley going to go?

Drug distribution seems like a bad business in which to be working for someone you don't respect.

So why isn't Dylan disabusing Zane of the notion that a rival drug guy killed Gil?

But with bus tickets if you miss the bus you can take the next one, no?

Those were NOT real pearls.

She's going to start over in Boston? How much money did he give her??

Of course now Dylan can't deny knowing anything...

If I were Norman I'd be soooo pissed if Norma then chickened out of the audition.

Not having sheet music at a musical theater audition is not good. But this whole audition is not really organized very well, so there's that.

You got a reeeeally week case there, Sheriff.

We didn't get to see Norman's audition?

I wouldn't have someone write a fake suicide note on paper from my notebook. Use a napkin from the diner or something. Sheesh.

 What is this melancholy music? What are we supposed to be sad about?

It's Lem!!!!

True Detective S01E06

Marty is channeling some Stabler here.

In what kind of fucked up society does it make sense to beat up a guy for having sex with your daughter?

Aha! Now this is a change.

Different camera angles with her, too, I think.

Well this is some coincidence, is it?

It's interesting to revisit this reverend, and such characters. It's still in the past. What are they doing now?

McConaughey has some Skeet Ulrich cheeks.

I like the Reverend. And I like his sideburns.

Ooohhhhh SCARS. I thought she said the man with the SCARVES.

Is this a new dickhead boss?

Marty is such an ass.

She doesn't take her wedding band off before going to the bar for revenge sex.

If you have a detective obsessed with a case, I feel like suspending him is a bad idea. Obviously he's going to just spend all that free time fixating.

"I fucked Ted."

This *is* pretty selfish of her.

So have we caught up now?

True Detective S01E05

Damn impressive how well he can speak with a cigarette in his mouth. I guess.

"Anti-intruder devices" = grenades

Breaking Bad has given me unrealistic expectations of meth cook houses.

Now they're emphasizing the difference between the spoken narrative and the visual narrative. Does this reinforce/imply that what we see is truth?

So far, there is no forensic evidence to back up this story.

What was behind that door.

Ah. There's the evidence.

"This is a world where nothing is solved."

An episode that starts off with a happy ending can't be going anywhere good.

Oooh it's psycho girl from The Walking Dead!

Way to slut-shame your own daughter, ass.

I want one of those little beer-can men. I would pay good money for a True Detective beer-can man.

"Deal with me" is a loaded way to ask for a deal, in this context.

Now the present day story is starting to move.

So now the structure is shifting.

(This show is so ripe for academic analysis. Love it.)

They're trying to pull a Keyser Soze moment here, of sorts.

Law & Order: SVU S15E15: Gridiron Soldiers

Is that the guy who played Secret Service guy Aaron on 24?


It's nice that they show has been building up to Amanda's gambling problem again. It's not going to come out of nowhere when she breaks.


He says the college had a fake ID waiting for him in his hotel room and they don't follow up?


"Sooner or later you play all the parts" Is that because she's the only original cast member left?


Now is the part of the episode where they break down the bully and show how he was a victim too.


That's glass??


Kind of a weak episode overall.

True Detective S01E04

I kinda like Charlie. Good performance.


So many TV shows begin with a dead girl. Twin Peaks, The Killing, The Fall, True Detective... Any that begin with a dead man?


Why is she still so angry? What does she want out of him?


Casting call: 90s ravers. Must be able to flail.


Ohhh the plastic pacifier fad! Such detail!


Iron Crusaders has a religious ring to it.


I've heard of alcoholics hiding booze all around the house - but in a crate with guns and grenades?


What does Marty want from his wife? Does he want to stay with her just because she left him? He wants control.


Sometimes when they say "bike club" I hear "fight club"


Explanation of how to use a cell phone


Shades of American History X at this bike club


Why the hell is Marty going in?


"Down the bayou" sounds so ominous


BaldyBeardy has crazy eyes.


These guys do not look like cops.


And of course there's a kid.


Why didn't they just bring this guy in and question him? Why go undercover and all this?

True Detective S01E03

I could see Matthew McConaughey playing Sandman.


I love that the 90s is now a setting for a period piece.


I used to have dresses like those, with those square bib collar things.


Did that police radio just say "geriatric gang altercation"??


I want to know more about these present-day detectives. Kind of. Like, I don't REALLY care. But I'm curious.

Things that happen in tents: revivals, circuses, camping.

Haha. Telex. How old-timey.

Oooh that denim and floral.

I like the blocking in this scene in the bedroom. The wife (what's her name?) following Marty as he evades. Maggie.

Remember that? Needing an alarm clock separate from your phone?

This sterile interrogation room is more intimidating and forlorn than the metal cells in Law & Order.

Interesting how Rust invokes faith/religion/God during the interrogation in order to get a confession.

I wonder if they shot all the present-day scenes at once.

"I didn't just come here to drink, y'know. I came here to kick ass."

Whose point of view are the flashbacks in?

Marty talking about how Rust is odd because "most of us have families" reminds me of the way women with children talk about childless women. They're alien.

Morbid thought: I hope my picture never ends up in a case file.

"I don't think man CAN love." I love it.

I love this fisher guy's accent.

Their partner relationship is interesting. It's much more complicated and subtle than most TV cop partnerships.

How does a person tell a story to someone who already knows what happens? What makes that kind of storytelling different?

The Walking Dead S04E12

Beth has gone all jungle, but her armpits are clean shaven. I guess it hasn't been that long.


Did Daryl have, like, a job? Before all this.


Are they gonna DO IT? Sharing that cozy little tent...


I don't understand where zombies come from in the middle of the woods.


Zombie pinatas.


Next they should visit a batting cage. Maybe a bowling alley.


I would like to see Beth grow dreads.


I like that this episode is just focusing on these two characters, but the rest of this season will be really uneventful if it continues with these portraits of pairs.


"I've never needed a game to get lit before." "Wait, have we started?" Hehehe


They are an interesting match up.


It's nice to see them process what happened, though.


Herschel would have been a good grampaw.


Is that some sort of symbolism? Burning the redneck house down with a stack of money?

Bates Motel S02E01: Gone But Not Forgotten

I don't really remember too much of where last season left off, but it doesn't seem to matter too much because what happened last season seems to be forgotten. Like, whatever happened to that sex slave? Did she just disappear?

I also don't remember if Norman killed his teacher the Blue Fairy or if it was implied but left ambiguous.

Other things:
- What is the sheriff's D&D alignment?
- Bradley didn't comb her hair. She is DARK.
- Freddie Highmore really grew on me last season, so now he seems like a perfect fit for the role.

The Walking Dead S04E11

I think the shirt is hot.


Now Michonne and Carl can bond over dead babies.


Hide under the bed, Rick. You're going to be taken.


How did those people kill themselves and stay dead?


This is some Mars Attacks kinda shit.


Making random thugs as vile as possible does not make them more threatening. It makes them obviously expendable.

On the other hand, it's good these guys made it known that they're bad so there's no hesitation in offing them.

I ain't ever seen a scientist with a mullet before.


Well that was a lot of sneaking around for no payoff.

Top of the Lake S01E07

I really hop this has a happy ending, so I'm kind of taking a risk by watching it now. I sad ending will probably spiral me into a bad mood.


I KNEW this wouldn't be about Tui.


Matt Mitcham IS her father! That's why her mom didn't want her to date Johnno. I guessed it!

He just looooves telling her this.

Is what harder than being gay? Loving a half-sibling? I don't think that's really comparable...

Sometimes I dislike being right.

On the one hand, I want Johnno to come rescue her. On the other, I'm kind of bored of Johnno rescuing her.

I want Tui to come rescue her.

Help Robin, GJ.

This guy playing Matt Mitcham is really pretty good.

I need for Tui to be okay and for the baby to be okay and

WHAT? How did she deliver that baby all by herself so quickly?

Baby! :)

You better not touch that baby, Matt Mitcham!

WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THE BABY??

They're probably talking about results/match to Tui's baby, but there is an implied tension about the heredity between the two of them.

They're going to charge her for shooting Matt??

Hahaha, Matt isn't Johnno's dad?? That's great.

Okay. Shit. Why are they worrying me here. Is Al a really bad dude?

There's only 10 minutes left. Let's not scare me, here. Tui's fine. Everything's fine.

Shit shit shit. Is Al the villain??

Nobody even questioned that Matt was the father, or wanted to see the results.

Did she really not tell Johnno where she was going? And she went without backup?

Fuckkkk

Oh I'm so glad she shot him.

Don't leave the gun there!!!!!

WHAT IS HAPPENING

This is sick. What is going on.

So was one of these guys the father of Tui's baby? Or Matt?

Hannibal S02E01

Oh this show is so good.


Ugh, the cinematography...


TWELVE weeks earlier??


I've been saying this is the best show on network TV, but I think it goes beyond that. It's one of the best things on TV at all.


"I can't get you out of my head" SO MUCH SLASH POTENTIAL.


This score! The chimes! So good!


Hannibal is so impeccably dressed. Is that suit bespoke? (Probably)


"I got to be Will Graham today." This is like televisual poetry.


Gillian Anderson is goooorgeous.


Dr. Bloom reminds me of someone's aunt.


Will is such a cutie.


"I hear Hannibal's voice in the well of my mind." Beautiful.


Who are these inky beings? Were they in the first season?


I like her. I forget her name. She's kind of rude, or was last season, and I like that.


The sound of his handcuff chains is nice.


Great sound mixing/editing.