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I still think Meisner is actually a bad guy, doing a bigger bad guy's bidding in some sort of all-encompassing plot (and Adalind will seemingly join them, but sacrifice herself for Nick and their kid). Otherwise I can't get the secret, Meisner-led Wesen Justice League straight. Good guys don't make their superheroes sleep in essentially prison cells with guards. Trubel still seems to have a good head on her shoulders. Yet she does what Meisner says, even when it comes to her friends. Hmmmm.

Grimm listed as one of 10 shows likely to be canceled (see last show), but the writer waffles. Not an especially thoughtful article. http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/14-tv-shows-likely-to-get-the-axe-after-this-season.html/10/

As a corporate veteran myself, that's the cliche of people without much to lose - "better to ask for forgiveness than permission." No one who has a lot to lose (or who might lose at all, because their jobs might really be affected), says that. It's a calculated risk, when you go down that road, and Jimmy had not only his job, which he knew was already a stretch for him given his personal behavior, but also his relationship with Kim AND her own career, on the line. But he did the commercial anyway, because he's basically an addict - not to drugs, but to the con, to the thrill of bucking authority, to his ability to get others to believe him and forgive him. He's playing in a different league now, though. I love to watch Jimmy, and he does have a heart. But he earns the bad things that happen to him, so I don't have much empathy nor sympathy, and that has lessened my connection to the show.

While I don't mind those plot directions, I do agree that they are all irrelevant now as Jimmy has shown he isn't "breaking bad" - he has made poor decisions his entire life. You can hang the albatross around Chuck and his assholery if you want, and even have Jimmy spend the night to keep an eye on Chuck so that Jimmy looks like a good guy, but it is Jimmy, and Jimmy alone, who loves the exciting life of the flim-flam man and also enjoys sticking it to people who he thinks view themselves as above others. It's Jimmy's choice, always has been. We're just watching him find new avenues for the same behavior. In that sense, it's less Walter White and more a story of a con man.

1. I have no idea why anyone fears a Grimm in the modern world. The only "powers" Nick seems to have is being able to see a wesen woge and, sometimes, knowledge and appropriate weapons. All this, "Eek, a Grimm!" stuff is working my last nerve. 2. What is the point of being part of the "royals" when it doesn't seem to grant you any status or abilities? Renard has been shot more times than Carllllllll on TWD. I wish we had some sense that Renard has a unique, royal-like power. Hey, Adalind is hot and 100 times more enjoyable than Juliette (or "Eve," who seems to be becoming more like Juliette and less like a brainwashed assassin with every episode). If we can buy hidden wesen who represent 1,000 animals, then why not Nick saying well, she is on meds and a different person now, so ....?

Doug likes the widow because she reminds him of Rachel Posner. Guilt made him curious, the physical resemblance drew him in. No idea what she thinks she is doing. I, too, thought Claire's convention speech was underwhelming. Jarringly so, for the reaction it received.

While Walter had made some poor choices, as anyone has, I don't agree that Walter (or we) knew that he was capable of becoming a drug dealer and would enjoy behaving in all the ways that entailed, not when we first met him. Walter's initial motive to make drug money was a genuine concern for his family, a lack of options to care for them, an assumption (erroneously) that because he had cancer and would die soon therefore there would be no consequences for him/his family and a sense of entitlement linked in part to his anger and belief that his friends stole his work and became rich from it. None of that equates to us or his character realizing that the drug life was for him. My read was that Walter discovered *while he was doing it* that he liked what he did. It was a process to get there. Jimmy apparently has *always* been this way, and we have Chuck's issues with Jimmy as one piece of evidence, as well as Kim's exasperation over Jimmy's behavior. They have seen this before. And they are trying to help Jimmy change and become more "respectable," and he isn't doing it. On top of that, Jimmy doesn't have cancer backing him into a corner. He doesn't have a desperate need to help anyone else. He just likes being a flim flam man. So I don't see Jimmy's situation and Walter's as the same at this stage. They end up in the same place, for some of the same reasons (i.e., this is who they are, at their core), but they don't start at the same place, IMO. The things Jimmy does in this episode, soliciting clients, making a video and not getting permission, he did for an ultimate goal of ... what? Not to make money, nor help his family, nor even to make a bad company pay. He did it because he enjoyed it, from the get go.

This is the episode where I lose my empathy for Jimmy and begin to see his brother as being correct. And unlike Walter White, who broke bad after first being diagnosed with cancer and then tried to plan for his family's future after he was gone (that became a mockery later, but it wasn't at the beginning), Jimmy is (and has been, we can assume) making bad decisions on his own, for years. Based only on what we have actually seen (and Chuck clearly has seen more), first Jimmy makes the "cobbler" video to fool the police, and Kim rightly denounces Jimmy and reminds him it could get him disbarred. Despite that reminder, he then commits another offense by soliciting the seniors on the bus (this would have been much better if Jimmy at least had a plausible rationale for what he did, i.e. "the other seniors heard me talking to Anabel and began to ask me questions," but he basically acknowledged he shouldn't have done it). Then he makes a commercial for his employer and airs it without ever asking for an OK. That last one is common sense 101, and even if you are a risk-taking, results-matter person, you have to know that pulling that stunt is a hi-risk move that could end your career - and in Jimmy's case, his relationship with Kim. So I think back to Chuck and his "bear witness" comment, and I get it. He's being a dick about it, but if he has lived with seeing his clearly talented brother Jimmy squander opportunity after opportunity for decades with this kind of decision making, I get it. Yeah, risk takers are often glorified, but the reality is, for most it doesn't end well. Jimmy is a risk addict, whose profession is about as opposite that as it can be. Not surprised chuck is disgusted at this stage, however much Jimmy entertains me.

This says more about me than the show, but I hate the bong stuff. Using a pretend drug to be supersmart is one thing. Using a bong because you have trouble with pressure is another. It makes me sad for Brian every time he uses it. The key way back at the start of the ep was Brian saying the only way for anyone to manipulate Sands would be to have something important to him - cut straight to agents discussing kidnapped kid, who happened to be black.

As a Denver resident, the Denver couple's preferences puzzled me. There are many places with unique charm downtown, but yeah, you might need to clean them once in a while. And given the woman mentioned not wanting to clean one thing or another at least four times, an older, charming place sounds like a recipe for disaster for them. Also, at one point she complained about a busy street outside. Well, you're downtown. Not sure what you expected. One of those places (the first one, I believe) was just across from the Pepsi Center, where the Nuggets and Av's play. Ii was also near Elitch Gardens, the downtown amusement park. I agree with others on the budget, I have no idea where these young couples get their money. Or do they just live with far more debt? We live in a nearby suburb in a 5BR, 3.5 BA house and it is nowhere near $700K. I would not be comfortable with a mortgage on a place like those they looked at. While the woman was very tiny, I was struck more by how robotic the man came across. He did have a dry sense of humor (and was he the guy with the fan fetish? I watched several eps in a row). But one thing I've learned over the years is that couples who have known each other since X grade and who now are getting married are sometimes doing so because they cannot handle interacting with anyone else. They felt a little like that, as if they had their own way of looking at the world together.

I love Melissa McCarthy's schtick, especially the gross, over-handsy stuff. The first time I saw her host the show I laughed at how far she went. Still enjoy that. Kept trying to figure out what Leslie was laughing at in The PickUp Artist. There didn't seem to be a single trigger. It was almost as if someone else was screwing with her off camera. Then I saw Leslie on The Blacklist essentially playing the role MM played on SNL. Weird. Riding the bus skit was kind of painful. And Beyonce ... I'm white and I didn't get it. I think there is a whole bunch of white people who are different than me. But then I grew up on Cameo, Rick James and Parliament. That bit actually caused me to delete that episode immediately.

I guess I don't understand what drives walkers. The fact that a bright light distracted them from live prey made no sense to me. Now did their selective attack on the porchdicks while others were also speaking, though admittedly not squealing. And if there was any risk at all in all of the group getting to the trucks, why didn't the weakest/riskiest members stay there, and then the others come back with the trucks and pick them up? Also, why light a fire in the lake? I thought perhaps they were going to spray walkers and light them on fire. Granted, that would likely have burned down Alexandria, but at this point I'm not sure they will stay there, anyway. And Glenn was damn lucky that none of the bullets from the automatic weapons hit him, given his location and the angle of the shots, especially the initial ones. Luckier than Carl, I guess. All of these things took me out of what should have been a great episode.

and My point, which I didn't elaborate on and maybe should have, was that BEYOND DD choosing to play an older, wiser Mulder, one who had matured from what he was 20 years ago, DD ALSO seems disinterested in his dialogue. It's definitely a YMMV thing, and for me it has to do with how his face conveys what he is saying. More robotic now than deadpan, less of a connection even taking into account that Mulder as a character is older and wiser. It feels kind of like an actor who doesn't really want to go back to his X-Files heyday but knows doing so is good for his career and his bank account. Nothing wrong with that choice, BTW. I'm not judging. The episode where Mulder basically lays out his exasperation and disappointment over the sheer fruitlessness of chasing conspiracies and monsters for years was the highlight of this miniseries for me, because that fit the disconnected Mulder I was seeing. It was genius, really, by the writer(s), using that to explain the current day DD/Mulder and how fans might view him. And then it made fans happy at the end, when Mulder received confirmation that there are, indeed, monsters in the world - and actually, many are human. Still, that doesn't change for me that in almost every other scene, where Mulder is back chasing monsters and conspiracies like Trash Can man, DD feels hollow. It's kind of like having two Scullys. Again, YMMV.

This episode has me thinking about what all 6 episodes are supposed to represent as a whole. And they seem to be about transitions. In that way, I liked it. - Mulder grows up and doubts his younger self and all he once believed ... only to discover that there is in fact weirdness in the world. - Scully loses her mom, and works through various feelings about her brothers. - The baby William stuff, which for me is eh. I am rarely interested in baby angst. But it is, of course, a key transition for the character. - And now in the preview for next week, we seem to see a Mulder & Scully: The Next Generation. if the point of these 6 episodes is to bring some kind of closure to original M&S and all the issues they have (as all humans carry around, in their own ways), and perhaps introduce us to the next X-Files, I'm good. Given the episode title, I expected a literally reintroduction to the Peacock family, so on that count I was disappointed. Yes, and not only that, we rewatched the 1998 X-Files movie immediately prior to watching this new series on DVR. Mulder was far more of a believer, a zealot, in the original series. More energy, more enthusiasm, more of a need to connect dots that don't appear to be connected. This new TV Mulder is supposed to be weary and disillusioned, I get it. But I think the real issue is that DD is simply older, and less interested. He doesn't appear to believe anything he is saying.

In my case, I didn't care that it was an old film. I just didn't find it funny. I like silly, but that was just ... endless. It was like watching my nephew act out for far too long. Of course, YMMV. I far more enjoyed the other 80s-era sketch, about Kevin Roberts. The ending was weak. But the silly set up was fun and Keenan's reactions were better. Any sketch that has me wondering "What in the world?" as I try to figure out the hook is a winner in my book. I am in my 50s and have never seen it, though I have seen parts of it here and there. It ain't no Ferris Bueller.

Only if we can also ban "flows into the ______ space" and "perfect for entertaining." Who are all these people who "entertain" all the time?

EVERY skit with Larry David felt like he was channeling George Costanza. Special props for the FBI skit, which was just silly and amusing. Keenan is so good at being a combination of puzzled and annoyed. The WU dancing thing went on, and on, and on ... I finally FF'd through it. Why so long? Nothing about Ted Cruz is funny.

Maybe ... I had a job lined up in journalism in April of my senior year in college. Started work two days after my mid-June graduation. I'm completely puzzled by the price of homes that all these young couples buy on HH. Not only Arlington ... any couple under 35 buying a $400k house blows my mind. Just saw two young 20s twins on Property Brothers buy a house that was listed at $500k. I mean, where does the money come from? Or is it debt? I wish HH would provide more detail on that! Include a little financial education in the show a la Shark Tank. "At an interest rate of 3.9, Susie and Bob can put down $75k, meaning ..."

Almost nothing of interest in this episode. Iris is a preachy butt-in, don't care if Wally crashes and dies, Tar Pit was captured in the most anti-climactic scene ever and even Zoom looked somehow smaller in the scene where Harry gives him Flash's speed. The only part of this ep that felt worth watching was Harry struggling with his decision to help Zoom, then confessing, then Barry (eventually, I mean come on, it took you a while to state the obvious) figuring out that Harry was in a tough spot, and now they are going to help each other. So maybe the last 10 minutes? They could drop Wally and iris (at this point) and I wouldn't notice.

Thanks for the wanking. if you try hard enough, you can wank out of anything. The show's problem is, that it shouldn't require viewers to do so. A half-uttered, "How's your grandmother -" or a "We don't know what this kryponite will do to you, Cara, so stay out of the way" would address these issues, leaving viewers free to focus on the wider plot. Instead, in many scenes each episode, you are left to say, "Wait, what?" when Jimmy is unharmed after the fire attack by Bizzaro or Jimmy and Winn are drinking at work or innumerable lapses that make the show as a whole unstable. And it's a shame, because the focus on the emotional side of being a superhero, and the choices you make, is pretty good most of the time (whether it is Cara, or Hank).

Meh. I want to like this show, particularly since my young daughter likes it and it is a good bonding show to discuss female role models and behavior. But it spends too much time on giddy romance, and is so sloppy with details that even she has started calling it out. Cara tells Adam about losing her mom and dad and he never asks about her "grandmother" she mentioned when she bailed at the restaurant? Martian Manhunter is a superhero but can barely hold his own against a single white Martian? BTW, how many Martians are there, and why don't we know about them on Earth, and why haven't the mean white ones come to take over? Lords can create a robot that is almost a match for superhero? So if he just creates 3-4 then he should defeat Supergirl, right? The Senator thanks Supergirl for saving her, but wasn't it Hank who rescued the Senator? Supergirl flies into her open window, nonsuperspeed, AGAIN. if Bizaro Supergirl gets stronger from krytonite, and a new bullet will weaken her, wouldn't that new bullet also strengthen Supergirl? Anyone? I personally got a kick out of Bizaro, because I remember that from the Justice League cartoons when I was a kid. But it would have been more artful for Bizaro to have developed as a result of a Lords screw up, kind of a Flowers for Algernon thing, than Danvers shelling it with kryponite.

Seriously underwhelmed by the villainy of Randall Savage, and there is just something weird about Hawkgirl. Hawkguy seems kind of dim, but otherwise he looks more or less the part. Hawkgirl looks like a Valley Girl in a costume... her eyes are huge, and her lip turns up in an odd way. Every time she is on screen I expect her to be tettering on high heels and saying, "O-M-G." Captain Cold shines in this show, though, in a way he didn't in The Flash.

Her role was doomed from the start. Barry can't have a carnal relationship with the woman he basically grew up with as a sister. That wa sicky and weird from the beginning. I wouldn't call her a lead actress. Agree, it didn't make sense. Patty had a dream she put aside to find the killer, she did that and now she is returning to her dream. Get it, like it. Barry, meanwhile, realizes that having a love interest mostly endangers them, so he pushes Patty away because he must. OK, super hero cliche, but makes sense. By pushing her away, he irks Patty. OK, that's human. Then Patty is smart enough to figure out Barry is Flash. Wow, well done. So far, I like them even though they each have to go their own ways. And then they have the whole "just tell me the truth and I'll stay" conversation, and then the train thing. Just ... why? Why make both characters out to be idiots? Why can't they be noble and stick with their necessary choices, or be strong and deal with the fact they are together and as a result, Patty is in more danger - so she gears up to handle it when it comes? I was shocked - shocked, I say - when Caitlyn didn't say, "BARRY, we need you in the Cortex now" while Barry was talking to RV.

I'm not digging this show as much as I used to. The Joe family drama, the relationship drama (Barry and Iris, Barry and Patty, old Flash and science lady, Ciscoe and flying bird lady, etc.) ... not very interesting. Barry learning more about his abilities, the rotating bad guys, Zoom, all more interesting. One of the things that brings it home for me with superhero shows is how the superhero chooses to fit into society, and handles his/her limitations, and how that interaction can make them stronger or weaker. In Flash, that takes a backseat to the personal drama. It's not very involving. The one exception is Cisco and the new Dr. Wells, but that's based on abilities and philosophies, not their relationship. So did Barry running enough to overcome Turtle mean Barry has increased his speed? Also, we seem to be stockpiling Flash versions on our Earth.

Wow, you must not spend much time online. She has been all over it the past several months, since she lost her first fight. I've never seen that sport, nor her other than still images in articles, but the headlines were everywhere for a couple of weeks. She also is considered attractive and has appeared in SI-like photo shoots of athletes. Come to think of it, I've never actually heard her talk. I wonder what she will sound like on the show?