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This is a nod to David Tennant's most famous role: The Tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, and Martha Jones were his companions for the duration of his tenure. Sally Sparrow was the main guest character of one of the most well-known episodes, "Blink," featuring the Weeping Angels (the first episode for those critters). Sparrow was played by a yet-unknown Carey Mulligan. Rose's message is regarding a "wolf." This is a bit of a joke towards the Bad Wolf plot that was actually during the Ninth Doctor incarnation. I can't quite make out the last word of Donna's "message." The picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2VOGHhIcAAU32K.jpg It's a nice little Easter egg in-joke for Tennant/Doctor Who fans that isn't obnoxious.

You know what? You're probably right. I might have mixed them up. Paul is creepy, but Mark does reek of insecurity. Hence the sleeping with Gemma and the figurative territorial pissing. Though it's funny he does that given the whole adultery thing. Questioning Lars might be violating some sort of protocol. He's clearly not all there, so he needs to brought to lucidity before being questioned because right now, nothing he says can be admitted in court. This is one of those technicalities that gets criminals off.

I figured that Carver's daughter was going to make an appearance. It was a lot less annoying than I feared. It was sweet that she used her day off from school to take a bus trip to Gracepoint to visit her father after hearing the voicemail message he left her a few episodes ago. She was justified in becoming pissed at her father because he was clearly not being fully honest about his health when she confronted him with the medication she found. It is a little annoying when family members of homicide detectives get annoyed about being relegated to second place after the job. I understand, but still. Even worse when it's the spouses. You knew what you were marrying into. Suddenly it becomes a problem? And Julianna should have called instead of surprising her father. Especially if she knew her dad was mired in a current homicide case. It was nice to finally get an idea of how much time had transpired in the series so far. So it has been six weeks since Danny's death. Having Tom go missing is kind of unnecessary. Why add another element of drama this late in the game because it's distracting from the main storyline of Who Killed Danny Solano? Although both Tom and Joe's behavior this episode further substantiates my theory. Mark is still a dick. What is his problem with the priest? Paul and Beth must have had some sort of romance when they were in high school and Mark must have scored with Beth during a break or something and knocked her up and always kept that insecurity that he wasn't Beth's top choice and she's with him out of obligation. Especially since he's two years older, but graduated the year after, meaning he was always going to be a dead end. Speaking of Paul the Priest, I'm glad they kept in the tongue-lashing, though it wasn't as hardcore as it was in Broadchurch. I wonder if Carver's bout of dizziness at the wake was real or faked in order to need a reason to sit down next to Tom. Miller took a few levels in competence this episode. And yes, Carver did teach you some shit because you were flailing in the beginning like some goddamned rookie and not somebody who was originally guaranteed for a head position. Ugh, fucking Faux-Psychic Guy is back. If I weren't so attached to my theory, I'd think he's the killer.

It was more than a little stupid for Fox to wait until the week of the 7th episode to have David Tennant do the media rounds for Gracepoint promotion. Both Fox and ABC (with Selfie) seemed to think that the American Doctor Who fandom was going to automatically follow and give them the ratings without needing to spend money on promotion. Promotion needed to be done in August and September. I understand that he needed to get to Dorset to film S2 of Broadchurch, but still.

That's been my theory this entire time. Tom accidentally killed Danny by bludgeoning him with the skateboard, called Joe freaking out, and Joe helped Tom clean up and dump the body. Goes with Tom's total non-reaction when Ellie told him about Danny's death, his deleting everything from his laptop's hard drive and phone text history with Danny, and his overall sketchy behavior. Joe understands his wife's general naïvety and blindness when it comes to her family and Gracepoint in general, so it doesn't take much for him to steer her away from being suspicious. Carver has been the wildcard, but Joe just has to keep himself in the background. And Ellie will prevent Carver from needling Tom too much (and Carver has a soft spot for kids, so he won't press the issue too much). And luckily for both, there are enough sketchy-ass characters in Gracepoint to keep Carver and Ellie busy.

Gemma is a pretty blonde woman with an enticing English accent who serves beer and apparently puts out. Not to mention she's a business owner that caters to tourism, which is probably Gracepoint's main source of income. What mob? And you'd be surprised how quickly sympathetic goodwill can run out. Emotional distress does not excuse you from acting like an adult. Keep running around, screeching at people, acting entitled, and destroying property and the town full of assholes will eventually turn on you. Confront Gemma for screwing Mark and having Chloe acquire cocaine, absolutely (especially since Gemma doesn't seem to be facing charges for the latter). I'm down for that. But do it with a clear head and not letting emotions take the lead. Glasses might be cheap, but beer isn't. And the intention Beth had when she broke the glasses wouldn't look good, either. She didn't come and start talking to Gemma first where it could be argued that she got heated and let emotions get the better of her. No, she came to the inn, picked up a glass while staring directly at Gemma, and slammed it to the ground. Then did it again like a small child does in retaliation to being told that they can't have something. The only thing that would go against Gemma is that Paul the Priest is the only witness and he's certainly not objective. God knows that he'd lie on the Holy Bible in favor of Beth.

I hope the next episode of Gracepoint has the verbal smackdown from the priest that Broadchurch had over the mob mentality that led to Jack's suicide. I really enjoyed that. Though I might not enjoy it as much in Gracepoint as I did in Broadchurch because Arthur Darvill is much less smarmy.

I get being incredibly pissed about your spouse's infidelity, but I really hate it when the betrayed acts in a manner that destroys any sympathy and gives the other woman the upper hand. By going to Gemma's place of business unprovoked and destroying property and wasting product, Gemma is well within her rights to pursue restitution. Beth's defense of "But she slept with my husband!" won't hold up in small claims court. Bringing up Danny's death as a reason for Beth's emotional outburst wouldn't be a totally good idea because the obvious rebuttal could be made that Gemma's business was suffering due to Danny's death and Beth's destructive rage was even more costly. Not to mention, the Solanos have not been completely cleared of suspicion, so if Gemma was a stone-cold bitch and more intelligent, all she would have to do is start enough whispers to get the citizens of Gracepoint to look at Mark and Beth with a jaundiced eye. The PedoHunt against Jack is unfortunately true to life. People are incredibly quick to jump to conclusions and lose their shit because the lines have been blurred and most people are just fucking stupid and don't realize that pedophilia, ephebophilia, statutory rape, rape, and sex offenders are not all created equal. For fuck's sake, in some states, you're on the sex offender list for drunkenly pissing in public. You can be charged and convicted of statutory rape if you're caught the day before the other person's age of consent birthday. Now granted, a 40-year old sleeping with his 16-year old student is problematic and skeevy, but that's still a long sight from being a diddler of 12-year old boys and even longer of being a murderer. Mark and Chloe need to back the fuck off about their opinion on whether Beth should keep the baby. Especially Chloe, with her Veruca Salt "Don't care how, I want it now," attitude. Honestly, I think she shouldn't because that family is a mess and no innocent should be forced into that situation.

I agree. She had plenty of time to confront Mark about this, but she chooses the most inopportune time to do so. Both Beth and Mark are extremely immature, which tells me what their maturity level was when Chloe was born (I have a theory that wherever you are maturity-wise when the first kid comes along is where you're generally stuck at for your adult life because most people are not introspective enough to work on themselves and assume that having a kid automatically makes them mature and responsible. Having a responsibility does not make you responsible). I understand that losing a child is a huge blow and most marriages don't survive the loss of a child, but these are problems that they've been having since before Danny died. Mark cheating, Beth hiding a pregnancy, their inability to communicate with each other, the passive-aggressiveness, etc. Danny's death and the resulting stress has just turned it all up to 11.

Ellie was actually not incompetent this episode. Having the foresight to have the idea that the "psychic" would do things like go to the media with an exclusive and then get a book deal on solving the Gracepoint murder case? Well done, Ellie. I enjoyed Carver's self-deprecating humor during dinner at the Miller's. I'm assuming the show is heavily implying that there was some previous romantic and/or sexual entanglement between Beth and the priest. The pedo hunt against Jack bothered me in Broadchurch just as much here. You see the statutory rape charge and don't look beyond that. Just let everybody leap to the idea that Jack is a diddler of little boys. If Jack's predilection was 12-year old boys, it would not be a statutory rape charge, but sexual assault against a minor child. Susan with her "I know men who'd rape you." What in the everloving fuck? You say something like that to me, I will dig deeper into you because now I know there's something there you don't want getting out and pure vindictiveness and spite will have me dragging it out and hoping it strips you naked and nails you to the cross for all to witness. The only thing I would wish for is that I had a record of you threatening a sexual assault hit on me.

Waaaahhh @ the reporter girl with her little, "Nobody wants me here," line. She's only in Gracepoint to try and publicly disgrace Carver over whatever happened in Rosemont and annoying the natives in the process. I'm sure it's just a line to manipulate Owen, but still.

It was pretty rich of the Solanos freaking out about not being kept apprised of every minute detail of the investigation. Let's remember that this family has just stonewalled the investigation with their secrets and lies. Mark isn't out because he finally came clean about his whereabouts; somebody else came forward to vouch for him. If I were in charge of the case, I would keep them on a strictly need-to-know basis. I like how indignant Dean was being. Dude, you were dealing drugs and got a minor involved. You should be in way bigger trouble than you actually are. Worry less about your uncle and acting like the cops are unfairly targeting you. I'm glad Carver came right out and accused Ellie of not really caring about finding Danny's killer. That's honestly what it seems like, with her being upset about the Solano's idea of Danny being shattered. Welcome to a homicide investigation, where all façades are destroyed and everything you never knew about your loved one is exposed. You can go "Not my kid" all you want, but your kid is lying cold and dead on a metal slab and can't hide or lie to you anymore. Carver's deer-in-headlight's look at the dinner invite was pretty hilarious. I don't mind Ellie having the upper hand in that moment because it was just so well-timed to catch him off-guard.

I'm reminded of a minor plot that happened in either the second or third season of Grey's Anatomy where Izzy is on the NICU rotation with Addison and a woman delivers one of those fertility drug litters. Addison puts Izzy in charge of the weakest of the litter and tells her that the baby had better be alive in the morning. Addison clearly knows that baby will not survive, but it was a practical lesson for Izzy, who just could not get it through that she needed to stay objective and not get personally involved with every patient. I feel like that's what Carver is trying to accomplish with Ellie. He's trying to get it through to her that there are three facts that she needs to focus on: 1.) A 12-year old boy is dead. 2.) Somebody killed him. 3.) There's a 99% likelihood that a Gracepoint resident is the killer. She is no longer Ellie Miller, Gracepoint resident and mother to the murder victim's best friend. She is Detective Miller, Homicide and she needs to step back and look at the case and her town with an objective viewpoint as if she's a stranger like Carver. If she wants to keep playing the, "But I know these people! They can't possibly!" game, then where is her homework? He said it himself after the meeting he thrust upon her, where was her compelling evidence for Mark Solano's innocence and list of more likely suspects? If she's so against the idea of anybody in Gracepoint being the killer, where is her legwork of a possible transient or tourist? She believed herself to be entitled to the job that Carver currently holds, so why was she so woefully unprepared to take over the meeting? Sure, she was asked to do so at the absolute last minute, but she's been working alongside Carver and presumably should have been doing some work independently as well. And EVERYBODY knows that the very first people you have to scrutinize in a homicide investigation is the family, especially when it's a child because children are much more likely to be murdered by their parents than anybody else. Once the immediate family has been eliminated, then you slowly expand the circle to any extended family that was around at the time, friends, adults the child was frequently around, etc. So enough of the hand-wringing of Mark Solano being arrested for obstruction for being shady as hell about his whereabouts. The father of the murdered child is refusing to account for where he was around the time his child left the house and was subsequently killed. The first time you get a murder case where it turns out the parent did indeed kill their child will jaundice your viewpoint real damn quick, Ellie Miller. And then the medical crew missing what will turn out to be important evidence (or a red herring) the first pass through. That wasn't a little tiny fiber; that was a large scrap of paper with a phone number on it. When you're supposed to be going through every millimeter of clothing, skin, hair, etc. with a fine-tooth comb, how do you even miss that? No wonder Carver is perpetually pissy. You don't f-up evidence; that's how killers get off on technicalities.

See the part where he's surrounded by the incompetent and idiots. Honestly, the sarcasm is probably the only thing keeping him from just punching everybody he sees. I really wish he had gone completely off on Mark Solano: "Look dick, I really don't give a crap about who you were screwing. But you just wasted 48 hours of my time, time I should have been spending TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO KILLED YOUR SON, BUT YOU'RE TOO WORRIED ABOUT PEOPLE FINDING OUT ABOUT YOUR AFFAIR. By all means, let me continue dancing around in circles while you keep inconsequential secrets because clearly, finding out who murdered your son is of no importance. Your life is already is at the lowest point it can possibly be. Your child has been murdered. So man up, deal with the fallout of your affair, and get on with it because you've got bigger things to deal with right now."

I was able to suspend disbelief when that was said in Broadchurch, mostly because I could just say, "Hell if I know how they do things in the UK." But with my Investigation Discovery addiction, it didn't quite work so well with Gracepoint. I've been wondering with the change in how Danny died if they were aiming for Tom to be the killer and the skateboard being the murder weapon. Even a small boy like Tom could inadvertently kill Danny with a few well-aimed swings to the head when really angry. My theory was also that Tom killed Danny, called his father in a panic, and Joe came to cover it up. I'm sure the show is going to keep the killer within Ellie's family because they're really playing up how tight Ellie's ties to this town are, how much she trusts everyone, how much she helps everyone, how she's unable to extract herself and be objective when the time calls for it, etc. The reveal of the killer being her own family member and how the town will sever its ties with her, lose its trust in her, and only stand back and wonder how she didn't know will completely shatter her. Hell, she looks like she's ready to break at any moment now.

Carver isn't an asshole. He's surrounded by the incompetent (Ellie) and idiots who would rather stonewall out of spite or obstruct a homicide investigation in order to keep a stupid secret. Add to that dealing with an illness and you've got Homicide Detective House, with a lot less cruelty and intentional meanness. For the "Carver is a total asshole!!!" crowd, watch a few episodes of Homicide Hunter. Lt. Joe Kenda is a genial man, but it's quite clear that there is a hardness there that comes after one has dealt with a fair amount of homicide cases. And Lt. Kenda's personal life was a pretty happy one: solid marriage, couple of kids, good home, etc. Now you all know that the Rule of Drama dictates that Carver's personal life and background is going to be revealed as a heartbreaking mess. If you're not incompetent at your job, stupid, intentionally obstructing or stonewalling his investigation, annoying him to get interviews and soundbites, or withholding evidence, Carver will not be an asshole.

So, yes, this was a shot-for-shot remake of Broadchurch so far, especially the opening and the title shot. But I don't care, really. Usually I'm right along with everybody else complaining about remakes when the original was already so good, but it's different this time around. I wasn't going to make judgements on David Tennant's American accent until I saw the full episode because I can't say anything based on a couple of seconds-long clips. It's really not bad, especially since he's going from a Scottish accent. If the killer stays the same as it was in Broadchurch, then I'm okay with that because I went into Broadchurch spoiled and had the opportunity to look for any foreshadowing and such and not focusing on the whodunnit aspect. I'm doing the same here, but I'm hoping that since they changed the cause of Danny's death that it's actually this go-round. It would make things more interesting and in Broadchurch, there was more pointing to

After finishing the first season, I'm really intrigued as to how they'll do a second season. There's no murder plot to drive it again, which is good because that would really strain the suspension of disbelief to have a small town like that have multiple murders committed by different people in such a short span of time. Plus, the two detective leads are no longer detectives. Beth is very pregnant, so it's less than a year after the events of the first season. The plot is very much under wraps and the actors are getting only two scripts at a time so they're pretty much in the dark. It could be an interesting character study on how the events of season one deeply affected Broadchurch, how the townspeople adjust to this new normal, and how the trust in a cozy little coastal community is now completely shattered. Right now, it's a little hard to see any possibility of a season 3 and beyond, but I guess it depends on 1.) what season 2 has in store and 2.) how Gracepoint performs in the USA.

I'm watching this show now and Ellie is a little annoying with the small town I-know-everyone mentality. Broadchurch is a seaside town of 15000. It's small, but not that small and everybody has secrets. Somebody who is a cop and was in the running for the DI position ought to not be viewing the world through rose-colored glasses. Had Alec not come to the town, she would have been woefully ill-equipped to solve the case. I have been spoiled about who is the killer, but it's not really ruining the show for me. I can pay more attention to any foreshadowing and the red herrings that I would have otherwise. I'm really intrigued as to how season 2 is going to go for Ellie with the blinders coming off and being the wife of the guy who murdered their son's best friend. Aside from how it will affect her, how will the town see her now? Whatever the town will think of Alec once his past failure comes to light (because Karen seems to be bound and determined to undermine the case and Alec himself with that), it's nothing compared to sleeping with a child killer and not knowing it. I like Alec and that's not just my David Tennant fangirl speaking. Of course, the show is doing everything it can to paint him as a woobie and it works. Failed case in the past, path for redemption, paying his penance, divorce, child estrangement, social awkwardness, and a nice bum ticker to top it all off. I hope in season 2 and any possible subsequent seasons they don't bring in the ex-wife and daughter. They can stay nicely tucked away in the past and focus on Alec's present and future.

God, yes. One promo had the girl giving a monologue before panning to a dead body in a bathtub and giving what I assume will be her catchphrase: "What goes around, comes around." It was just BAD. There are way more talented child actors out there.

This entire season was a giant clusterfuck. It started with the idiot writers killing a major character who was the best friend of the female protagonist and cousin of the fan favorite OFFSCREEN. The only confirmation we get at first is from the drunkard mother whose word has never meant much and then final confirmation by what was basically a throwaway line from Pam. The writers on this show really fucked Tara over the entire run. She was basically the chew toy who has had every little bit of happiness she found ripped away, ends up DYING for her best friend (who then forces her to be turned in a vampire, something she hated), has her mother reject her AGAIN, and then meets the true death off-screen. And the best friend who is alive right now thanks to Tara barely even mentions her and the cousin just says that he mourned enough when she died the first time. Seriously, WHAT. THE. FUCK. And then that weird storyline of Lettie Mae trying to find out what Tara was telling her that ended up being a total non-starter. If you're going to set it up like Tara dealing with the guilt and other emotional fallout from killing her father (I assume that's who that was), then go through with it. I wish Tara got a far better resolution between her and her mother because that was her love story, the mother-daughter love story of a daughter who wanted nothing more than a sober, nonabusive mother that loved her. Half the trouble Tara ended up in was due to trying to find something to fill that void in her life. Arlene was the other chew-toy. Rene was a serial killer and then Terry, a very sweet guy who genuinely loved Arlene, commits suicide. At least she got some sort of happy ending. Alcide's death was completely unnecessary. It was unnecessary when it was expected that Sookie/Bill was the endgame, but now even more so when it turns out that Bill meets the true death. Most fans wouldn't have minded Alcide/Sookie. Honestly, they made Alcide an unnecessary character. His storylines always happened separately from the main one and barely interacted with the main characters. He was just there to be eye candy. I'm glad Joe Manganiello pretty much said as much in an interview after his death-isode aired and how disappointed he was that they didn't do much with Alcide. They set him up to be the good-guy character that was in love with Sookie (like every other male character) who was warm-blooded and human. Sam, they did a whole lot of nothing with. I wish they had really developed a Sookie/Sam friendship. Who else would truly understand being alone and so different from everybody else and rarely getting to meet members of your own kind? And yes, the backtracking to say that it doesn't actually matter who Sookie ends up with is bullshit. They spent so much focus each season on who she's fucking and all this relationship bullshit and then want to say it doesn't matter? I felt we got robbed of seeing her deal with relationship issues and have that growth to accept being with a human. She took up with Bill because she couldn't read his mind and now marries some human stranger bitch without showing how she reconciled her mind-reading capabilities to get close enough to a human to marry? They had ten episodes this season to wrap up all the storylines presented in the series and spent most of them with filler. What they should have done was spend each episode focusing on one character, kind of like what Skins did. Then there's Bill. I wish they had Sookie fall out of love with him after it was revealed that he contrived everything to get her to trust him and end that "love" story. Dude just was not a good guy from day one. If he had such a rapid form of Hep-V, he should have died episodes ago. Him asking Sookie to literally give up a part of herself to kill him is beyond the pale. Walk into the sun or let the Hep-V take its course. Don't make somebody you profess to love KILL you. I was reading ONTD after the finale and it was pointed out how funny it was that Bon Temps is all happy idyll small Southern town after Bill dies. Well, that's actually a good point. Bill was the catalyst for all the shit happening in Bon Temps. As soon as he appeared in the first episode, everything went to hell. Everybody wanted to blame Sookie, no blame Bill. Had he never come to town, Sookie wouldn't have taken up with him, and the dominoes from that point would not have fallen. So yeah, it's fitting that once Bill is gone, things start becoming okay again. Ugh. We deserved better than this. Hollywood needs to understand that a series finale is the last impression we get from a show and a bad one can taint an entire series (see: Roseanne, The Sopranos, Dexter, HIMYM). Whereas an excellent one can make one overlook the missteps a series took (see: Six Feet Under).

1.) For the show to have more focus. Create suspense without adding more and more plot devices. The first season had enough to fulfill another two seasons (given the 10-episode seasons) without all the additional crap the second season brought. 2.) Finally give us some backstories and answer the questions presented in the beginning of the first season. How did Beth, Cosima, and Alison figure out the clone conspiracy and meet each other? How did they find out about Katja and the other European clones? How did Katja get the blood samples? 3.) I agree with no more Kira in peril. It's a cheap way to create tension. It's becoming the new Tell Carl To Stay In The House But He Never Does And Ends Up In Some Sort Of Trouble. 4.) I also agree with keeping the clones together instead of separating them into their own plots. 5.) No more new clones. Tony and Charlotte are completely unnecessary. There is such a thing as too many characters. 6.) No more Rachel. She fulfilled her role as the Dragon and is no longer needed. Plus, her Infertile Myrtle baby rabies-induced psychosis is really off-putting. 7.) Stop introducing new Big Bads. There's plenty to work with. 8.) Resolve the clone illness. It's becoming yet another cheap crutch to create tension. 9.) More Felix. 10.) Get rid of DeAngelis or get her up to speed because she's just a thorn right now. 11.) Kill off Vic.

There is one episode that really confuses me: the one that covers the Theresa Cross Knorr case (abused and murdered two of her three daughters by shooting one and the other locked in a hot closet and set one of them on fire when disposing the body and used her two sons as accomplices). I saw a Cold Case Files episode about ten years ago that interviewed Terry Knorr (the surviving daughter) and at the end said she died in 2003 from a massive heart attack. However, in the Deadly Women episode that aired years later, she was there telling her tale and it wasn't archived footage or anything. I did a Google search and at that time, it looked like she was still alive given the Facebook page with private pictures of her taken with a computer camera (judging by the quality) that were obviously of her. Then it said she died in 2011. I just found that really odd.

That moment when you realize that The Master got his brains bashed in by the Bear Jew in World War II (Inglourious Basterds).

@Athena, I've only used either almond flour or hazelnut flour. No wheat flour (not out of any gluten-free need or desire, I just went with the recipe). I'm going to try substituting part of the nut flour with cake flour next time and see what the results are.