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That portrait in her attic does wonders.

From The Huffington Post: The Major Problem With 'Law & Order: SVU' This Season

Are Benson and Mayhem still a thing? When Benson and Finn were leaving Ellie in the half-way house, I asked them (loudly enough that my cat wondered if I was yelling at him) whether they'd learned nothing from 100 years of that going pear shaped. My prediction? The person everyone is so afraid of? The one that has Tino so scared he's copping to "green-lighting" (is that what they said? what is it anyway?) Ellie? It's his mother.

D. That Lester - a prisoner - wasn't restrained. Oh, and there's this recent story about fish-rain: Fish rain down on Sri Lanka village, from earlier this month.

And a political operative as 'brilliant' as Eli would know this too.

If you're referring to each character being a talented musician (however deeply talented or not): Hodge is trained in the violin & Kane does have a side career as a country musician. So, I think in each case the writers decided to use the actors' side talents to allow the characters to do whatever was needed for each episode.

The Americans Should Let The Russians Win. That's from "The Concourse" which is part of the Gawker empire.

Clark is the Greek Chorus of the show.

Almost 100 years ago, I worked for a bank (at the branch level); we had a (retail, individual) client that was such a total jerkwad - he'd made at least three tellers cry and was just all around unpleasant - that the branch manager made the executive decision to cut him a bank check for his entire balance (app $200k) and tell him to take his business elsewhere. She had the blessing of the regional manager to do so. So, 'firing' of clients happens in various types of companies.

Person Of Interest's Creators Had To Fight For The Show To Include A.I. Person Of Interest: The Complete Unedited Interview Both from io9

I hope that Team Machine are wise enough to tell Fusco that he needs to keep his eyes open.

I would like to know why Hetty's having Nell get her a flight to DC. Aren't there administrative folks for that? Unless Nell was to go off and have the admin staff take care of the flight and not make the arrangements herself.

Terry Crewes showing up would be proof of a higher power.

Interesting to see Alex Saxon (Wyatt) as Chloe, a transgender sort-of-hustler on Ray Donovan. I'm glad that someone saw the potential of the pretty face being 'feminized'. He did a really good job with the role too. It's a pity my free-view weekend is over; I can't see if we meet her again.

Really liked "Found it! I knew it was here!"

True. She should've said something like "since you're both men and since I have no video feed here, please identify yourself when you ask a question/make a comment. That way I'll know which of you I'm answering." Would've taken the race angle away right away,

I hear that. Recently started working with a Christopher and a Vladimir. Specifically asked if I can call them Chris and Vlad respectively and both said yes. However, whenever I heard "Trubel" come out of someone's mouth, I thought of a scifi book I read awhile back called Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott.

Anyone else think that the Young Pioneer pin was bugged?

1 It'll either be Zoey becoming eeeevviill and holding it over Juliette when J decides she doesn't want Z on the tour, or they'll be all buddy, buddy, happy, happy about the secret. Or both. 2 Mine too. 3 Just quoting it 'cause it bears repeating. Never thought this way about Esten when he was on Whose Line.

Not sure why, but it took me a few moments to get back into the episode once Henry from The Americans showed up as Josh Lyman's elder child, and apparently highly neglected son. Also - seems they're on a West Wing stars two-week trip, Josh Lyman and Will Bailey.

It was especially funny to me considering recent conversation regarding how damned well Ming-Na looks for a woman of her age. She truly doesn't look too far north of 35-38 to me, at least not how they dress her, light her a make her up. All through the episode I was still queasy about whether Simmons is possibly HYDRA.

& Totally! On both counts. When I was an EA, if I'd ever gone behind my boss's back I wouldn't have been able to look her in the eye!

The concept of being more afraid of your own side than you are of the other side is what has kept armies going for practically since there have been armies. It was particularly true in WWII. My late husband's father would tell stories of being surrendered to b/c the German soldiers would prefer the US POW camps to anything that their superiors would do to them.

From the NY Times (they seem to have wondered some of the same things I've wondered): Eight Things About the Show That Don’t Make Sense.

Me too, on both counts. I think this thread name should be changed to "He's Skeptical - and Quite Attractive, Too". Dude knows how to wear a suit.