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I have been saying all along they've been laying the ground for some larger story. The girl being a Fed was a great surprise and what a slap in the face to Abbie, especially given how much her career means to her and how much she is trying to balance it all. Love how the Jenny/Jo and Abbie/Ichabod stories have converged. Again, something I suspected was going to happen. The four of them together make such a good team. This is the second time Ichabod and Joe have had extended scenes together and they work really well off each other. And i do like how they encouraged each other to talk about what is really going on in their heads with their respective Mills. Of course Jenny and Joe are much less complicated than Abbie and icahbod. Did NOT see that kiss coming, but was kinda happy it did. I DID like Ichabod admitting how many fears he has not the least of which is losing Abbie. He rightly feels that her job is the biggest threat to him. And even so, I love how upset he was on her behalf when he realize that Danny had blind-sided her. The Art of War indeed. Hmm, no Busty in the flashback? Dare we hope that they have realized she just isn't working and have dialed her back? Also zero mention of Zoe. Hmm. The Jenny stuff is really interesting. Loving how much stuff Lyndie gets to do after being MIA so much last season.

Ok, so I am feeling a little vindicated. I thought I felt racial undertones in the scene with Weber, Steph, Amelia and Jo. But put it aside as maybe projecting. But nope, it was intentional as we see here. I immediately felt uncomfortable for Maggie in that scene with the patient and was so glad she addressed it later. And the conversation between her and Amelia in the parking lot was great. 'Are you asking me because I am your sister or because I am your sistah?" and 'It's not her job to make your feel good." were some great quotes from the convo. The new guy is pretty. But goodness who just wanders into a hospital and starts taking over? The only orientation he needs is to ask where the scrubs are? Owen was a dick to Bailey. Callie needed to have three seats. And yeah, Jo. Unload on Penny. It isn't her fault that Meredith swooped your patient from underneath you. She was in no position to argue with Meredith about it right then. But sure, turn it around on her. I loved Steph's expression as she was watching that unfold. The non-resolution of Jackson & April is getting old. Dude, drop the papers on her if that is what you are planning to do. Good episode, everybody got some face time and even smallish parts had some importance. Webber and Arizona was fun.

I don't think it is anyone on Scandal, that crew seems pretty tight with Shonda. I am going with TR Knight. In my re-watch I just finished the episode If/Then, the one where Meredith dreams of an alternate reality-- BTW I loved that in the alternate reality Derek was 'McDreary' LOL. Anyway, even then George gets shat upon. In the alterna reality he didn't even pass his intern exam, was derisively called 007 by everyone and basically had flamed out in the first year. So yeah, even in the alternate reality George had a terrible fate.

"My phone game is Dolemite but my in person game is Sinbad." Making Charlie be the A-plot and having him drive so much story could really have gone the other way. But dammit that storyline was excellent and most of it had to do with Charlie. With Junior and Diane doing superb jobs of being his enabler and his detractor. "This just in: God don't like your tone." Ha! the unexplained Charlie/Diane animosity stays unexplained and both of them play it so well, but don't over-play it. I like how Charlies looks at Diane as if she is gonna turn rabid at any moment. And Diane's long stare of death was a thing of beauty. Marsai Martin has the comedic timing of a veteran comedienne. Such a smart little actress. Junior's love of all things middle-aged white women is so baffling yet such an funny character beat and it played to perfection in this ep with Charlie co-signing. Their complete understanding and reverence of Diane Keaton rom-cons killed but what took it over the top were the musical interludes, the D'Angelo song and the Unbreak my Heart. Amber Rose was ok. She he had wooden line readings but she wasn't egregious. And she a frickin' gorgeous woman. TER actually is an Brown alum and the song she was singing was a real, but damn she was embarrassing. Poor Zoey.

Yeah, the soap behind the scenes was, for a time, more riveting than what was going on on-screen. TR Knight seemed to intimate that Shonda retaliated against him for coming out. I mean, you can say all kinds of things about Shonda but that seems uncharacteristic for her. And why would you even say that publicly about your boss? My thinking is that she didn't disappear George because Knight came out, she did it because he basically called her a homophobe.

Yeah, Season 5 was a weird experience because i knew i was watching back-stage drama seep onto the screen. I also liked the Eric Stoltz storyline, immediately and violently disliked Hahn, hated the dead Denny sex -- always have. I skipped that episode in re-watch. Felt that the opportunity for Alex & Izzie had passed so their pairing did nothing for me. Also couldn't help but wonder why Katherine Heigl wasn't killed off then too since her S6 appearances were so sporadic and added nothing to the show and further cemented why Alex and Izzie didn't feel right.

I personally like Busty. Yeah I didn't necessarily see Abbie & Danny as a one nighter, but just confined to however long they were in that shack as opposed to being a long-time ongoing relationship. So could've been weeks? a month or two? And once they were outta there it was over for Abbie. And yeah the optics of Abbie & Ichabod working nd living together with an obvious past seems like as a pile on for Danny. She couldn't commit anything to him because she had this other unsatisfactorily defined relationship already in play. And I would love it if they broke up Zoe and Ichabod over something so mundane as her finally thinking he's too weird for her or that his habit of being pedantic begins to grate or something like that. Or even something a little darker like she gets killed because of something to do with their mission, kinda like Caroline did and Ichabod finally realizes he can't have a relationship with a 'normal' person. Yeah, I have no problem callously killing off Zoe.

I do love how she treated Ab & Ich in this episode. 'Unflappable' is a great descriptor. She came to do what she needed to do (for now). And she's got her tree-bling, her tree-weave and her lovely gown. She is so matter of fact when she talked to Ichabod. I enjoy this type of villain. She isn't wasteful. She doesn't just kill people wantonly just because. She has her eyes on a specific prize. She is all about fomenting fear. Even stealing the candy from the little girl wasn't just evil for evil's sake, it engendered fear and fed more of her cause. And she has a really good presence. I really enjoyed her confrontation with the Witnesses in her lair, because she was unhurried and in control. And yes, her 'Go have a seat, son' smack-down of Ichabod was great. You are not the only historical traveller here. Yeah, I mean in the grand scheme of things they couldn't 'win'. Pandora already won just by unleashing the things in her box. She didn't want to destroy the town or kill anyone, she just needed to collect her fear. So she did that. Ich & Abbie was the clean up crew. Pandora thanking them for cleaning up after her fits very well within her 'eyes on the prize' personality. She doesn't need all her creatures to be running amok in Sleepy Hollow after she's gotten what she needed from them. Instead of her having to call them back or collect them, Abbie & Ich did that for her. I get the impression she would have done so because like I said above, she isn't wasteful. I mean, she put the Horseman in the box because his brand of terror isn't what she needs at this time. So yeah, I am digging on Pandy. On re-watch I paid more attention to the Danny Abbie stuff and thought these scenes brought their earlier interactions in sharp focus. Yeah, I also got the impression he was a little jealous of her abilities while at the same time being impressed by her. So his coming to Sleepy Hollow to be her boss was twofold, maybe? A way to show her he got a promotion before her so in a small way to show he is better but also a way to be back in her orbit, to be around her? Also the story about the Outerbanks also has me intrigued and could mean a lot of things. Did they have a close relationship? Was it a one time thing that meant more to him than her? I fanwank it is the latter since he only mentions the shack. I think they were friends, colleagues and attracted to each other. Something happened maybe during a training exercise, maybe during a case that had them holed together in a shack and they got it on. Danny took it as a beginning of something but to Abbie it was ... something a lot less. Hopefully we'll get more clues. And yeah, I like that he is not in the know re: the supernatural stuff and it stays that way. I think if you are an Ichabbie shipper then that is the biggest arrow your quiver right now. In S1 Abbie & Ichabod talk about not being able to have relationships because of what they know and who they are. So how honest can you be in a relationship with a muggle? (Harry Potter reference). Unless the writers want to bring Daniel and Zoe into the team WTF fold, then they will always be outsiders to what Abbie & Ichabod have to deal with. And you can't have an honest relationship with someone if you have to hide such a huge part of yourself or can't explain why you are always running off with this other person.

I liked S6 a lot more. I enjoyed the animosity with the Mercy West people, I liked "I Saw what I Saw" the episode where the mother died and they all had to tell their parts of the story to Richard and the lawyers to piece together what happened. I really liked the 'Time Warp' episode that showed early Bailey & young Ellis & Richard grappling with one of their first AIDs case. Sarah Paulsen was great as young Ellis. Also, learning who Jackson was and finally the shooting eps. It was a strong season,imo and in contrast S7 felt like a let down.

I am at S8 too and because I know what happens I too feel a pall when watching. especially the scenes with Mark and Sofia. I was completely underwhelmed by S7 -- I hated Peter MacNicol as a character, hated Teddy & Henry's stupid storyline, Christina's PTSD stuff felt tiresome and she and Owen just never, ever clicked for me so their relationship just doesn't work for me. I liked Alex tho.

Person of Interest - I was mad they killed Carter. Grey's Anatomy - I cancelled it around -- season 7? 8? But I have always kept up with the generic storyline. I have since given it a reboot this season tho. I am liking this season so far. American Idol - When Simon left. The show seemed more invested in their celebrity judges than they were in their contestants. Part of the charm of the early shows was that nobody knew who Simon or Randy was. And Paula was pretty much a has been. They were as much unknowns as the singers were. Now the show seems more invested in promoting the judges. No thank you. Bones - Dropped it out of boredom around season 6-ish and was kinda sad they killed off one of my favorite squinterns, Vincent Nigel-Murray. Orange is the New Black - Not really cancelled more on Hiatus as I may pick it back up next year. Maybe. I only made it through two episodes of Season 3 after completely loving Season 2. Have had no desire to start the next episode. Masters of Sex - could not make it past the second episode of this most recent season. Gave it up.

The Meredith/Penny storyline was insufferable. Not because Mer was being a bitch. Let's face it, she was. And not because Penny was being all victim-y. But because it had all the subtlety of a bag of hammers, follow by a 10-ton anvil followed by a rain of arrows all falling onto our heads. We know, show, we know. Make Meredith bitchy, bullying and irrational to create sympathy for Penny. It just wasn't necessary. The situation already had enough drama to give it its heft. Why not let Meredith be tough, but reasonable instead of a ranty person? Why not let Penny be nervous but still competent? Meredith could have still come off as angry and cold and Penny still could have made small, but not life threatening errors. Meredith could have cooly pointed them out, Penny could have shown flashes of brilliance amongst her nerves and amidst some first day errors. The tension between the women still could have been adequately conveyed without making Mer a mean girl and Penny a dishrag. I hate Amelia. The new guy is cute. I loved the stuff between Webber and Maggie. Their relationship is so undefined that at some point what they are to each other needed to be addressed. And for once, Maggie's sexual oversharing was welcome in that tense car ride over to the hospital. Did I say i hate Amelia? I thought that kid was hella cute. I am meh on April and Jackson. I have always hated the over-use of music on this show. I am in re-watch of earlier seasons and they didn't start with music until the back half of season 2. And it is sooo intrusive to me. So when we get the odd episode here and there where they use no music I tend to enjoy that episode that much more.

Right!?!? I forgot to mention this, but it was awesome. Danny was high on bee-roid rage and Abbie still dropped him on his ass like a Boss! My heart went pitty-pat. And she tops it off with telling Pandy to Bring it. I swear when she said that, Ichabod looked at Abbie with more lust in his eye than he ever did with any of his supposed love interests including his wife.

After watching this ep, my feeling that the show is laying a foundation and building to something feels right. The tablet, Jenny & Joe, Pandora all seem like pieces of a puzzle and we just aren't getting the big picture yet. Is this like S1, no. Different storytelling method. I prefer S1 but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate what they are doing here. S3 is a lot smarter than S2 and feels almost like a bread-crumb mystery in places. When Pandora said 'Bear Witness' before being swallowed by her tree it made me feel like they have given thought to her and are trying to say something more about what it means for Abbie & Ichabod to be Witnesses. she isn't just so thrown in as a generic arch villainess for them to fight against. It seems like she has a bigger purpose. I know some people were mad about Ichy's date but i wasn't. I thought it was funny. I don't mind Ich & Zoe because frankly she is no threat to Abbie's role as Alpha Female and after the Katrina debacle, that is my biggest concern when it comes to any Ichy romantic interest. By contrast I like what they did with Danny and Abbie. There is a lot of unspoken stuff happening under the surface so all their scenes seem to be fraught with subtext. Where Zoe & Ich feel like they are wandering around a chick lit fantasy, Abbie & Danny are angsting through a dramatic suspense. And regardless of what they decide to with Danny, there never seems to be an imminent threat against Ichabod's role in things as there has been with Abbie's. And frankly Abbie it is nice to witness Abbie with a non-platonic personal connection, even fleetingly. It also seems like they are mining canon. First with Joe and all the Corbin call-backs and now the thing with Jenny. Even though Corbin exorcized that one demon from Jenny, I think there was the suggestion that Demons were not completely done with you even if they were cast out. At least that is how Lyndie Greenwood played that in S1, like she was afraid it would come back. So now we see her possessed again. This is good stuff for her and I am curious to see how it plays. I enjoyed the episode because it felt more thoughtful, like it had a little meat to it. And on a shallow note, Abbie's hair was on point. She had Carolyn Mosby hair!

Me Three. I am enjoying the heck out of S3. BR is the only sour note and only because I need her inclusion to be better the for story and so far she isn't bringing it. But she's been on so little that I can largely forgive that. But everything else is working for me. I honestly think that the structure we are seeing is something Fox has demanded and the writers & CC has done a good job of incorporating the faves and telling a story that I think is smarter than people give it credit for.

Ha! I agree, believe it or not S4 may not be that unreasonable. Overnight ratings across the board on lots of shows this season are dismal. Ratings for shows are dropping like flies. Outside of Empire and the Big Bang Theory, scripted shows this week have topped out at a 2.2. Most of them falling below a 2.0. And what is even more surprising no shows have gotten cancelled yet. Episode orders shortened, yes, but outright cancelled? No. And people are speculating that represents a sea change in how the nets are interpreting ratings. But beyond that, Campbell isn't saying anything new. They've always downplayed or pooh-pooh explicitly committing to pursuing Ichabbie. The most problematic thing is admitting to playing around with shippers. It is bad form. It feels like they are trolling. Since you've pretty much said you aren't going to pursue it now, why tease the people who want it to happen? You are giving them false hope. Not pursuing the romance, imo is fine, esp since that isn't the story you want to tell. But playing peek-a-boo with a segment of the fandom's hope is just not cool.

By making Reynolds her boss, they have effectively taken him off the table as a viable love interest for Abbie. I have no problem if the show is not rushing into making Ab & Ich a love item. If that isn't the story they want to tell just yet then that isn't the story they want to tell. That is ok. But if they want to give either of them a love interest outside of the other, then it should be equal opportunity. We have had two seasons of them demonstrating Ichabod as a sexual being. We saw him profess his love for his wife, he's kissed her, we've watched romance between them, we've even seen them in in post coital glow. And now this season we are watching women kiss him, him fantasize about kissing women, him setting up dates. Ichabod gets to have a love life. But Abbie doesn't and that chaps. All of her love life has been off screen and over before we get to see it. She had already broken up with Luke and wasn't giving him the time of day. Andy loves her yes, but he was dead. Hawley liked her, but he was already Jenny's and Abbie dissed him anyway. And now Daniel. Already over. If Ichabod gets to explore a love life why not Abbie? Honestly, I don't think the show can truly support love interests for either one of them. And the writers have set themselves up a Herculean task by even trying. Because Beharie and Mison have such natural and deep chemistry, anything less than that with other potential love interests will continued to be perceived as a waste of time and effort. And so far no matter how many women they've thrown at Ichabod none of them seem to have even a fraction of the chemistry he has with Abbie. But at least show them both trying (and failing) at love rather than just having Abbie sit on the sidelines like some anti-love magnet while Ichabod is off sowing his oats.

I thought the implication was that he was involved with drug cartels? But I have absolutely no idea where I got that idea from, so I could be completely making it up. The funny thing is, the show itself never says anything bad about Laurel's family. We just get her acting out at the dinner table over Christmas. And yet, I also got the distinct vibe her family were not on the up and up. Maybe I have been conditioned by too many movies. But the quick shot of the opulence of her family's house and then the whole family around the table with the domineering father who kinda looked like Al Pacino in Scarface. And her mother, who kinda resembled Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface if she were happier and had kids. And the sense that he is undoubtedly the head of the family who rules with an iron fist totally pinged me as her family being respectable on top but dirty underneath. Don't know why. it isn't a Latino thing, but a trope thing.

In The Necromancer episode when we first find out that Headless is really Abraham, Ichabod tells us that Katrina broke off her engagement with Abraham and the next day he and Abraham had to deliver the Declaration of Resolves to the First Continental Congress. That would have been late 1774. Ichabod and Katrina have professed their love for each other the day she broke off with Abraham. Right before their fight, Ichabod asks for Abraham's blessing. I can't imagine Ichabod and Katrina waiting three years to get married since they had been giving each other the googly eyes for awhile and Katrina killed, I mean, watched Mary accidentally trip over a root. Betsy's first husband died in January 1776 and she remarried in June 1777. At some point she would have needed to mourn her first and meet & fall in love and marry her second husband at the same time flirting with Crane who was already in the throes of epic love with (possibly already married to) Katrina. Yeah, the timing is either super tight or just super wrong.

'I made you a cobbler." Oh Annalise! Y'all know girlfriend grabbed a Marie Callender and put that thing in her own casserole dish! "I will serial kill you." Yes, Michaela. Please. Kill Wes. Please. God, I have a soft spot in my heart for Alfie Enoch because he will always be cute little Dean Thomas. But Wes is such a trifling ass. I hate him so. And his continued obsession over the totally worthless Rebecca, a character I immediately despised from the moment she appeared on screen, pisses me off. And here I thought we were free of her but nooo. I thought it was obvious the 'You let me sleep with him.' Was a somewhat hysterical, unhinged reaction by Michaela and not meant to be taken literally. It is clear that they are are still spiraling from the after affects of being involved with Sam's death. Connor and Michaela are the two who were most visibly affected. Immediately after the fact and now months after. Those two are becoming a bit more unhinged. Connor acts out, Michaela winds tighter and tighter. Even Laurel in her way is trying to numb it through desperate sex with Frank. I don't blame Michaela for lashing out as Wes., He is to blame for the crap they are in. He brought Rebecca to them, he manipulated events to get Annalise on her case and now his continued obsession with her keeps reminding them of the Sam thing -- the thing they are all trying (without much success) to forget. ETA: My take on the Oliver thing was that the missing son was some kind of super computer hacker extraordinaire, even better than Oliver and somehow had his system alert him to anyone who hacked in so he could take over the other computer's camera to see who it is? I don't know if this is really possible or if this falls under the generic 'only on tv computer magic.' Kinda like people who can isolate words from lots of noise or super res blurry photos so they become so super clear that they can see the fingerprints on someone's hand and pinpoint the killer type stuff.

I used to watch Bones -- stopped after they killed poor Vincent Nigel-Murray who was my favorite squintern. So i had no problem, falling into both shows. Each show did its thing. - I loved seeing everybody's costume. Abbie as Bey was perfection. Nice nod to Lyndie Greenwood's Canadian-ness to have Jenny dressed as a Mountie. - I am not sure where the show is going with Zoe. She doesn't get a lot of face time at all, but you hear about her a lot. She seems like she has the potential to become a nightmare girlfriend. At least that is what it seems they are laying the groundwork for. - Also I found it odd that at the top of the show Abbie snarkily called her 'Hoop Dreams' (Ha! The shade of it all) but at the end encouraged Ichabod to date her. I am wondering if she has an ulterior motive. Possibly to keep Ichabod occupied while she works on the FBI stuff or maybe subconsciously pushing him away because she is starting to feel a little too much for him? When they were in the tunnels separated with Abbie & Booth on one side and Brennad and Ichabod on the other, Abbie's kept calling for Crane. She actually sounded scared for him. Mind you, she and Crane had been in much more terrifying circumstances before. I mean they were in Purgatory for Goodness sake. I have a feeling something is gonna come to a head with their feelings for each other. May not be a a total match up this season...but something is gonna shift. - I liked how the scene as they discussed Katrina was shot. Ichabod and Abbie were completely in dark silhouette. You couldn't see their facial expressions at all. Only their voices. It gave a nice sense of distance because you didn't have to see Ichabod looking sad or pained or regretful or anything. - One thing I enjoyed about the cross over was how much of the Sleepy Hollow secret the audience was in on. The letter was a fun thing because we know that it was Ichabod. And since Brennan's scientific mind couldn't possibly accept what we know to be true, she had to accept that completely implausible explanation of inherited handwriting. And Ichabod and Abbie kept sending each other Important Glances because, of course, they know. - Although Abbie didn't get a lot of face time on Bones, what she did get worked great. She and David Boreanaz worked really well off each other. And I actually enjoyed Hodges reaction to Ichabod the best. Although I call foul on him fistbumping ichabod. Nobody but Abbie can fistbump ichabod! - And finally, I liked the Cookie Lyon costume. LOL.

I know the blurb called them Dre's nieces & nephews, but did the show actually call them that? I don't remember. All I remember is he called them 'your cousins' Which can mean lots of things in a family tree up to and including non-blood relations. I have to say I felt like the trick or treat portion felt real. I get so exasperated when grown ass people come to my door asking for candy. Like for real? At least put on a wig or glitter or even a $2.00 plastic mask with the elastic string or somethin'... The last place I lived trick or treating was very sedate. I used to live in Ithaca, NY so it was a very granola, birkenstock, hemp wearing, low key vibe. When we moved to a more typically suburban area Halloween became practically an Olympic sport in our neighborhood. I mean, people went all out. Fog machines, front yards made to look like authentic graveyards, people dressed like zombies to give out candy, having kids go through haunted 'mazes' in the backyard to get candy. My kids loved it, I was a bit shell shocked at first. But now we roll with it.

Yet another great episode. - The kids were on fire tonight. Great episode for all of them. - The freeze frame fight with the cousins had me howling! - As did the Straight Outta Compton intro of said cousins. - As was the flashback of Michael Strahan looking like Doughboy. - Somehow they made Anthony Anderson kinda resemble Barack (if you squinted a little). Whatever they did with the shape of his head & the fake ears it was good. - Bow was a banging Michelle! That dress was very nice. - The second confrontation between the kids was funny, especially them picking on the one cousin's cabin boy father. And then Junior doing the dead-on impression of the guy from Captain Phillips. And of course Jack as Bo Obama all night. He used his teeth a lot. - The return of the idea that Rick Fox is Zoe's biological father was a nice call back. - Does everyone have a cousin Junebug? I know I did. I also had an Uncle Junior. His actual name was Thomas. He was named after his father (my paternal grandfather), so he was actually Thomas Jr. but we were dead kids walking if we dared call him Uncle Thomas. aka Uncle Tom. So Uncle Junior it was. - No office scenes. I love them but I didn't miss them here. Nice contained episode. Imma have to re-watch. There were so many good lines.

I love The People's Couch. I actually started watching Crisley Knows Best (don't judge me!) because of The People's Couch.

Even the Bones writers are Ichabbie shippers!