TeeVee
Covert Affairs 3.12:
I am so very deeply fretful about the threatened end of Annie and Eyal's buddyspy BFF-ness. Like, this episode makes me think they're going to kill him?
So in one episode, we see Joan taking pills for the first time in 2 1/2 seasons, and in the next she's attending meetings with other addicts? This plotline makes no sense.
Loved Eyal and Auggie meeting and Auggie's being wigged out by the hugging. I hope they're going to explore PTSD a bit with Annie? Right now it looks like they're leaning more towards "Disillusionment with your country."
Elementary 1.4: I think they were trying to make up for Watson not having as many scenes last week. I approve.
I was hoping more of the episode would be the "Oh noes, Holmes is missing!" part? But I did like that most of the episode seemed to be Watson's flashback.
I think the mystery was a bit better this week than in previous weeks and they seem to be solidifying the character dynamics a bit more, and had a lot of development there and with the characters themselves. But I strongly question Holmes's common sense, given that he was deliberately alone with people he thought were serial killers twice this episode.
Haven 3.6: Pretty solid Haunted House episode, properly spooky and creepy, and I was surprised all named characters made it out alive. Though the main thing I came away with is that Claire is a Buffy fan. Something of an underuse of Iain Glen, though, but I highly anticipate Claudia Black's arc.
Once Upon A Time 2.4: Well, it was only a matter of time before this season churned out an episode I didn't care for. I think I'm going to try to banish everything that didn't involve Red in general or Belle telling off men for trying to control her. And the last scene. At this point, my dearest wish is for Cora to off Rumples and become the main villain of the series, which would be much more interesting to me. BTW, I'm assuming that all the people talking about how "daring" and "unusual" it was to have an episode without Emma, Snow or Regina has never actually watched another episode of US tv before without blinders, because there's nothing remotely unusual or unprecedented in women (or anyone besides straight white men) being shoved to the side so that men can be developed, especially if they can be developed via violence towards women. (All I'll let myself say about the main plot-talked about it too mych elsewhere already-is that while I quite dislike Belle's dad, I think the show expects us to find it illogical for a parent to flip out upon learning that their kid is shacking up with the god of evil who terrorized the world for centuries and enjoys randomly turning people into plants and animals for kicks. Then again, his role here was purely an attempt to make umlpes look better by having someone else do bad. Oh, and Charming seems to be raiding his daughter's wardrobe.)
Person of Interest 3.4: This week, Reese crashed a romance novel.
An assassin! In love with the woman he is sent to kill! Whose husband he was ordered to kill way back when! I think the writers camped out in the romance novel aisle for a few days for this one.
This was very fun, though it felt like there wasn't much of Carter or Fusco. Though I note Reese continues to be even more brazen in his quasi-flirting with Carter in the form of harassing her at work.
I liked Elias making Finch pay for help with chess, and am suitably disconcerted by Finch's use of "bad code." Episodes ending with Reese looking evilly at bad guys were more fun before we knew he was improbably dumping them in a Mexican jail.
World Without End ep 8: Pretty solid ending there. Ralph and Godwin needed to suffer a lot more (naturally, the villain I kinda wanted to escape and run away to be evil elsewhere seems to have had the worst death) but I'm glad this show remained true to the end in not coming up with reasons for us to excuse their actions and sympathize with them. Philippa summed up Ralph best when he was all "I know you always wanted me!" ie, "Yeah, you got a rough deal and I felt bad for you, but then you turned into a creepy raping murderer and that went away." Which is pretty much this show (and Pillars of the Earth) is about villains. A nice contrast to all the "but you don't understand HIS PAIN that drives him to be evil which we will primarily show via misogyny and racism, because we know fans are willing to look past that" that we get in so many shows. Not as good as PotE, but still worth watching. (As a side note, I'm very fond of Caris's outfit from this episode.)