DearEvette

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!

Ha! Mrs. Hernandez doing what looked like Parkour freerunning made me snort out loud.

I am not sure about timelines but aren't Steph & Jo residents? It just seems like in the earlier episodes even when Mer, George, Christina etc. were just interns we watched them do more and they seem to have more hands on responsibility than Steph and Jo do. I mean there are scenes of Izzy scrubbed in with Burke and he is explaining some complicated thing and firing off questions to her, or when George had to do surgery on his own while trapped ion an elevator, or Addison forcing Izzy to take responsibility all by herself overnight with a Preemie telling her that the baby's life is her responsibility and the baby better be alive when Addison returns in the morning. Even the nurses are shown to be subtlety teaching while simultaneously standing back and saying 'you're the doctor you make the call.' Having said all that, i do admit I find myself liking George more than I remembered, so maybe my dislike of him is something that came after the fact an poisoned my early memories. But Izzy I am disliking more than I remembered. I guess by the time I get to her with Denny and doing surgery on a deer, I'll be hating her guts.

Yeah. I would 1000x prefer she was Corbin's kid or just not another Mills. Realistically we know they do have other siblings because Papa Mills has another family. But hopefully they won't be incorporated because Millsx2 is everything!

I loved this episode based almost solely on the 'Face Your Fears' musical number. Not just the song, because it was funny and fantastic and so very subversive. But also Rebecca's skeptical commentary accompanying the song. It was like Paula and Rebecca were standing side by side but in two separate genres: Paula was in a musical, but Rebecca was in a made-for-tv-movie. And yeah, her complete obliviousness to White Josh was great. Also, are those new opening credits or have I just never watched them before? Now I am wondering if I just never watched the opening credits before.

Wow. So another regular. That makes six regulars. I dunno, Seems a bit big for Sleepy Hollow. On the one hand that could mean very little because being a regular simply means contractually they can call on you when they need you, but they don't actually have to give you any real screen time (*Cough*Season 2 Frank & Jenny *cough*). On the other hand, it could mean they might trim elsewhere (*cough*Betsy Ross *cough*). Unlike S2 they aren't so far ahead with filming that they can't easily drop dead weight if things are looking sketchy. And Betsy is as sketchy as they come. But on the other, other hand it might signal that Fox isn't too unhappy with the ratings. I mean other shows are getting episode orders trimmed -- so they are dead shows walking (*cough* Minority Report, Blood & Oil *cough*) while Sleepy is adding a regular. But on the other, other, other hand... well I'm running out of hands. I toyed with the idea that she was another Mills sister too. It seems to blatant with all the talk of Daddy Mills and another family. And although Jenny & Abbie's role in the Apocalypse seems to come down through their maternal line, there is no reason to assume that something hinky wasn't going on in their paternal line either.

OMG, I will always remember Jaclyn Smith killing it on a track relay. She was in was in third and she rounded the track and passed everybody. It was fab!

One of the things that is sticking out to me in my re-watch is how much actual teaching the Residents/Attendings did with Mer, Christina George etc. Even amongst all the sexy times you got a good sense of the personalities of the interns through their skills. One of the reasons it is so hard to connect with the new interns is that the storytelling isn't as deep with them as it was with the original crew. So of course, we have no way of knowing really how good Jo or Stephanie really are because we aren't getting to watch them really do anything. i think they actually attempted to do it with the Jo, Stephanie, Tina Majorino and Friday Night Lights guy... but they were juggling too many characters to make it work effectively. It seems like they are trying to get back to that a bit, but still this season the only thing I know about Hot Intern is that he is good at sex.

I am doing a re-watch and I started with S1 last week. And I am up to S3 right now and you are so right! Not only did George not have any chemistry with Izzie (the absolute worst pairing in GA history) he had none with Callie either, imo. Frankly I just never found George have chemistry with anyone. Actually I just disliked George from S1. Even more than Alex who was written to be purposefully jerky.

OMG! I love this! This is worthy of a Blackish episode shout out. Yeah, I didn't agree with the C+. Her review of the episode was positive so I don't know why she graded it so low. She is a different reviewer than they had last season. The reviewer last season was much more positive in his scoring. But I think this season is stronger right out the gate.

I would imagine that she didn't leave immediately because people tend to be conditioned to do polite things regardless of how they feel. And to some extent she took her cue from Meredith. At that point they were the only two people who knew what was what. Meredith invited her in, took her coat, offered her a drink. She probably felt that all she needed to do was make it through the dinner and not make things awkward for everyone else as long as Meredith was willing to just be a polite hostess and allow her to remain in her anonymity. Once Meredith let the cat out of the bag, yeah she could have fled because clearly the polite portion of the evening was over. And she didn't invite conversation about Derek, Amelia kept on her about it even when people tried to move it along and even she she tried to deflect herself. But like I said above I think there was a level of needing the condemnation and absolution from peers. While saying 'She killed my husband" is great for drama, it is really a rather simplistic and unfair and yes, immature, thing of Meredith to say. Unless it was a matter of gross negligence then it is even an inaccurate thing for Meredith to say. And the people who were sitting at that table would be aware of that. But Amelia made it all about her like, really, nobody in that room ever, ever, ever had anyone die on them from professional misjudgement?

I think Penny's reasons for staying are twofold: 1) She, in a weird way, felt that she deserved this. If Derek was the first/only person who died under her direct care maybe she needed this public flagellation. Obviously there is a level of guilt there that she is unable dismiss as professional misjudgment. There was a point in the dinner where she was trying to explain what happened that night in medical terms and it sounded like (or at least I fanwank) it was an explanation she had made to herself 1,000 times and this was an opportunity to justify it out loud to colleagues -- maybe they can vindicate her a bit? Absolve her guilt some? of course she underestimated the level of maturity amongst the crew she was with. LOL. and 2) She knew she was going to be working with them and once she realized how close they were/important to Derek, she realized that this needed to be dealt with and sooner get it over now rather than later.

Heh. I feel the same way except I don't feel sorry for her. Out of the gate when all the new interns were introduced, Jo was earmarked as New!Izzie. She was given the most character development, she immediately developed a rapport and then a relationship with Alex. She was immediately culled from the herd. It was like watching the audition rounds of So You Think You Can Dance. You can always tell who they like because that is the one they give the heart-wrenching back story to. While all the rest were almost indistinguishable and you knew they were canon fodder. And guess what, with the exception of Stephanie, they are all gone. And yeah the fucked-upness of what went down with that intern put a really bad taste in my mouth both about her and how they were writing her to be received by the audience. The Stephanie telling Jo she was better than her felt almost out of place until you place it in context with what she said earlier and even what happened last week. Last week I felt there was an argument that the confrontation with Weber had a leetle tendril of a racial undertone. Where the black characters might feel it in the room, but the white characters were blind to it. But I put it aside because it wasn't really overt and felt maybe I was projecting. But this week when Stephanie brought up again "they barely know who you are and yet they automatically believe you over me." made me feel that leetle tendril of racial undertone again. So of course when Jo mentions Stephanie's illness in relation to her accomplishments and drive that probably set off a red-flag in Steph's head. Because black students can be so very aware that they have to to work twice as hard to be considered half as good. And reasons are given as to why are excel -- except the obvious ones like smarts. And like it or not, Shonda can be subtle when it comes to pointing out microaggressions. I remember in an ep of Scandal Liv and Abby walked into a room to meet a new client, and the woman walked over to Abby and said 'You must be Olivia Pope.' Nothing else was made of it, Liv just corrected her and introduced herself and that was it. But as a viewer everyone got what just happened there. So I think there may be a little of that going on. Overall I LOVED the episode. it was so tense and well done and yes, the absence of music really allowed the acting to work. My husband who has never seen an ep of Grey's Anatomy wandered through the living room and marvelled that Danny Bonaduce was still working. He was talking about Owen. I think I laughed for like 2 minutes. Still like Maggie with Hot Intern. They have a really rather neurotic thing going on (mostly on her end) but it works for me. Arizona was a hoot! and this is the most I liked April in ages.

But it doesn't explain why she can't act. Sorry. I'll stop now. But re: the Mills sisters. I forgot to mention how much I loved Abbie & Jenny's conversation about their father. It felt very real and natural and very much in keeping with their characters. This is a great case where writer continuity is a good thing. Heather Regnier did my one of my favorite eps of S1 (Midnight Ride) and one of the highlights of S2 (The Abyss Gazes Back, aka the Wendigo episode). She knows Abbie & Jenny's history and you felt the weight of that during their conversation in the car as well as their (non-parent supervised!) conversation with the little girl.

We don't know what Asher did, but apparently it was bad. So he can be all judgey-judgey on everyone else, but he just 'made a mistake'? Before Bonnie confessed to him he had nothing with which to testify. No evidence, he wasn't an eye witness to anything. Where was his power? Frank is The Man. Ha! I hate Wes so bad. I really, really do. And it is all because of his stupid obsession over the most worthless person on this show. So I am super happy anytime Frank gets over on Wes. Or Michaela blames him (irrationally) for letting her sleep with Eggs 911. Or everybody else just dumping on him. I love the police calling Levi 'Heisenberg' ha! "Are you two gay for each other?" - Of course Michaela would think that. Poor thing. I enjoyed her little bout of hysteria and threatening to cut off Levi's balls. And Connor looking out for her. They really need to be besties. Gah! Poor Bonnie. Great episode.

Really good use of Jenny. Nice to see her and Crane working together. Also i liked Crane & Joe hanging out for a bit. I am enjoying Pandora more and more. Seriously, her lines are not deep or especially thought provoking. In some cases they are downright corny but she is clearly a case of an actress who is really owning her role. Her scenes with Abbie was great and have a nice air of menace and a border on a the intimate. I mean, Pandy treats Abbie like they have a connection themselves. It isn't in anything she says but it all in the body language of the actress. Shannyn Sossamon really is doing a great job. Which brings me to Besty Ross. I tried. Lord knows I have. But she is comically bad as both a concept and as an actor. Her flashbacks just feel lazy and shoehorned in. They don't have quite the zing that flashbacks had in S1 & even S2. You can remove them and they would not affect the show at all. If Pandora is a home run, then Betsy is a strike out. Just wrong all over the place. The monster was creepy as fuck. I mean when it sorta attached itself to the wall in that kid's room I think I jumped. I think it is hysterical how Jenny, Abbie & ichabod can all just go and hang with kids, lurk outside their houses at night, give them money, fight demons with them. It's all cool. LOL Ichabod's reaction to his emoji was funny. Zoe sounds like a stage five clinger.