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I agree with everyone that Lois Smith could pass for 64ish. The 84 we're seeing is 2015's version of the age. In 1983 people had smoking, Reaganonics, and disco to age them much more than now. And she killed that scene. I guess mailbots had a special section where FBI agents can crawl into and discuss high-level secrets.

OK, creepy anguished dad has a picture of bluebells. So he sent the card, obviously, because creepy people are known for leaving trails of clues. And he may possibly have a connection to the murder. BTW, has it been established whether Bluebells actually grow in France? Lee asked the question, but we have yet to get an answer. I would be 100% on Team Lee if he'd punched Ollie. Keep on creepin' my friend, just don't hold back with the only reporter in town (who apparently only has a job because of his mom). Ellie's sister held her ground in court, and it might work for her. There is no credible reason for a jury to not believe her. I am assuming that the jury was pulled from a local pool of people, all of whom were shocked by the murder and want to convict someone. Unless they are complete morons (always a possibility), they won't believe the stupid story being continuously concocted by the defense team, apparently on the fly. The trial is more than 1/2 way over, and only NOW they're trying to come up with an alternate theory to Joe Miller? Hey how about that guy over there? Or that one? Yeah, he did it. We'll just say he wanted to sleep with DI Hardy, or something else that can't be proven logically. Nigel is about 14 years old, emotionally speaking. Vince is the only one with any sort of wisdom in that family. The babysitter's body was found, but the daughter never was. Hmmm. My guess is that she is still alive.

I figure she did the Ice Bucket Challenge in addition to giving birth. You know Beth, always thinking of others.

Lemond needs to move to Switzerland so he can open a bank account with his ill-gotten gazillions, and his son can go to a posh boarding school. He knows he doesn't have a secure future in Chicago, and he can't be so naive as to think that Alicia will go easy on him just because he gave her money (that she never asked for). So it does snow in Chicago! Thank God the roads were plowed. And thank God the snow melted by nighttime. I love that Finn spent the whole day playing Halo.

Like many dysfunctional types, Jessa is good in a crisis. OK - if she chooses to be present, she is good in a crisis. I hope this means growth for her character. I really like it when Jessa shows some self-awareness and can move forward. Oh Fran, why? You are supposed to be the mature one on the show, the guy who wants nothing to do with the girls' silliness, the guy who would have called an ambulance AND Child Protective Services the minute he learned about Laird and Caroline's parenting experiment. I am wondering whether "6 months later" Hannah is still "teaching" at that school. Please let us have more Aidy Bryant on the show. Maybe she can be the next lady-pal for Ray.

Lord knows I would move Heaven and Earth for a shot at a roll in the hay with David Tennant, but not at the expense of 1) a dead child 2) my own children 3) my spouse 4) the real murderer going free. Is "speculation" not a thing in the British court system? If that's their best, it's pretty shoddy. I want to get hammered.

I assume the Mels (Shosh's parents) are supporting her, if only to spite one another, and Jessa probably has someone in her family taking pity on her while she is unemployed. Jessa hasn't burned through absolutely everyone in the northern hemisphere yet.

Again, I'm just really amazed at Alicia's and everyone else's ability to somehow wish away any Chicago winter snow.

Idiots have different rules for getting engaged. Honestly, I don't feel that Desi sees this as a real engagement. I have no reason to feel that way other than the fact that he's a selfish twat. I think he was just placating Marnie after she justifiably got pissed when he spent their entire advance on pedals and shit, instead of studio musicians and studio time, and he didn't want her to hate him. And he sees in Marnie the deep desire to conform. Marnie thinks being in a relationship means that she has her shit together, so being married means that her shit is super-duper together.

Of course Marnie stood up in a room full of people, maybe 4 of whom actually know her personally, to say she's getting married. But you gotta admit that she showed remarkable restraint by not breaking out into song. Ace is awful but damn if I don't love Zachary Quinto. That's how you make an unlikable character into someone you can't look away from. And Adam shows he is the most mature one around.

AllyB - you made a great point about Martha. Denial is denial, and it can take many forms. stillshimpy - Absolutely. Somehow, Philip and Elizabeth have learned about emotional intelligence enough that they know how well to play somebody's vulnerabilities. Philip has completely screwed with Martha's sense of worth. She is good at her job but she has terrible taste in men - she was with the agent who treated her badly (the bald one killed by Philip) and now "Clark". Philip has the harder job, I think. Elizabeth goes out and sleeps with her marks, and occasionally she kicks ass, but Philip has to really manipulate people and continue to pretend as though he cares, and that is exhausting when you really don't give two shits about these people. I think he is going to become more protective of Kimmie in the long run. (I bet he is actually wondering how well she did on her math test.) If I had Philip's job, I'd lose all sense of who I was, and it would make parenting nearly impossible.

Thank you thank you thank you. This drove me absolutely nuts. Not to mention: Prosecutor: "You were under pressure to arrest someone." Hardy: "We're always under pressure." Prosecutor:"So you thought you'd arrest Miller's husband." Hardy: "He confessed. He admitted to being in love with Danny. Very creepy but I swear to all that is good and holy that he confessed this. And he had Danny's phone." Prosecutor: "No, I think it's much more believable that you thought you'd just chuck the case and arrest the perfectly innocent guy married to your detective." Hardy: "That makes no fucking sense." Prosecutor: "It's perfectly feasible to anyone with only half a brain." Hardy: "That…wow…your incorrect logic has me mesmerized and I can't think strait. I'm feeling dizzy. But that could be my heart condition."

It is great to see how much times have changed. Stan is about the age of my parents, and that generation was NOT brought up to be color-blind. As an earlier poster commented, this was a time when affirmative action was still in early stages, and (like with women) much of the hiring appeared to be "tokenism" even if the person was much more qualified/better educated/etc than white men who were already working in the office. I definitely noticed this agent because we hadn't seen an African-American agent yet. (We certainly haven't seen any women agents yet.) And I'm sure that if we were to delve into the FBI of 1982, we'd find plenty of FBI agents who would have referred to him as "colored" without batting an eye. They probably would have smoked as well, but that's another issue.

In Season 1, Nina talked to him about the fact that he was a cop who was dealing with spies. Stan himself had to become a spy when he went undercover, but clearly the work did a number on him. He may not be cut out for living a secret life while he is still good at his job as an FBI agent. Undercover work would be very difficult and stressful, particularly in a case like Stan's where he already had a wife and family waiting for him. It wasn't like he was recruited at 14 and learned how to move in and out of this situation.

Apparently while Paige turns into a KGB agent, Henry has turned into Liam Gallagher.

I'm not surprised Hannah didn't show better judgment about the piercing. As a teacher, I see newbies come in and while most of them are very professional and have no desire to be the "cool, hip teacher" who is everybody's buddy, there's always the one who's just that insecure, who'll go to student parties, who'll pick them up at 2 am and let them crash on their couch, who will get over involved in the students' personal lives - and not in a caring adult way. Those teachers are generally spotted and fired pretty quickly. [Of course we have one teacher at our school who would overshare in the classroom about her romantic relationships and ramble on about how her weekend was "epic," and then blurt out loudly in the hallway about some guy she had sex with…she's on the Admin team now. (We're all baffled and honestly just assume she lowered boundaries with a boss and slept with someone to get where she is because she is dumb as a rock.)] Hannah is immature and self-centered enough not to understand that rules and procedures also apply to her as well. The school system, just like the Iowa Writer's Workshop, have conspired to keep her down. So for the Wedding of the Century, who do you think will be more insane: Shosh or Marnie's mom?

Hannah's parents killed it tonight. Every time they are on the show there is more of Hannah's personality that comes out. Well done on the writing and acting front. If Hannah is lucky, only getting fired will be the best outcome. There could be a lawsuit. There could be charges. But if all the parent does is slap Hannah hard across the face, that'll be enough for me. Marnie is an idiot. She and Desi are still out $2K and she's agreed to marry the guy who blew it. I really wanted to see Zachary Quinto this week. Maybe he'll perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on Jessa. And eventually everyone else. (Except Hannah. She gets The Slap.)

Philip is closer to 38, and the lowlife that he's pretending to be would be in deep shit if he were caught. Philip could be in even deeper shit if caught, but that's why he's the super-agent. Seriously - I'm surprised both he and Elizabeth have not been caught at all by now with all of the crazy near-misses they've had. And it's why I'm leery of the weekly snuggles with Kimmie. Somebody - a neighbor, a housekeeper, one of K's friends is bound to see him. The only thing that may keep him safe is that K's dad is CIA, and they can't investigate on US soil. And we learned in the Aldrich Ames fallout that the CIA and FBI were/are rivals who almost never kept each other apprised of stuff that could have brought down various spy and other criminal rings. So hey, there's that. But I would love to see Philip in a room where Martha calls him Clark, Kimmie calls him James, and Stan is just perusing the fridge for some beer (and Oleg is just face palming the whole time).

Excellent point. I was 13 in 1982 (and living in the midwest), and while I heard about girls who were "spending time" with older guys (never referred to as "men"), I found the idea pretty gross. I remember a beautiful friend of mine who was 12 and a ringer for Brooke Shields would get hit on all the time by college guys and guys on the local minor-league baseball team. Most backed off when they learned how young she was, but not everybody, and it was pretty well known. She was nice, her parents were nice, but there was no wide-spread condemnation of anyone. Conversely, my parents definitely would have had any adult male's head if I'd gone along with my wilder classmates, but they also would have blamed me for embarrassing them. So while the idea of older guy/teenage girl hook-ups was more common, I know it was never completely accepted. It was more of a "well-it's-bound-to-happen" sort of attitude. But at the time, people seemed to be much more worried about gay men hitting on boys at school (a local debate was: do we fire a male teacher if we learn he's gay?) or just freaking out about cults, punk-rockers, or Judas Priest.

They (TPTB) certainly acknowledge how creepy it is, but really it seems more anachronistic than anything. We are creeped out by this in 2015 much more than people were in 1982. Remember, the 1970's were a seriously free-wheeling time and the country hadn't quite swung back to the far right, shaming place it's been since then. Movies like Porky's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High pretty much establish the teen-age girl as the brainless sex-pot. And today's helicopter parents were outliers back then: most parents just hoped that their kids would stay away from hard drugs and do well enough on their SATs to get into some place respectable. Honestly, Kimmie is so lonely, vulnerable, and desperate for validation that he could probably turn her to spy for the KGB. But Philip is more squicked out because she is the same age as his daughter, not just because she is underage and "jailbait".

I'm getting confused about the location. Ellie is now in Devon, which is way down south. Broadchurch is north? I guess it must also be in the south, although the accents don't sound like it. I know it was modeled after Dorset, which is southwest. Anyway, if Ellie's new life (and kids) are in Devon, how did Tommy (her son) manage to play FIFA soccer with Mark? Where was the baby during the trial?

Frank Langella is a master. You are all right: sinister and sympathetic. That's why he was both Dracula and Nixon and even Sherlock. Take a look at this from when he was a tad bit sexier: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/JaneGael/040610vampire39_zpsecba0c19.jpg

Because Moseley is the Jerry/Garry of Downton Abbey. Christie Brinkley will probably show up as his once great "fling" from America.

I agree. Isobel has a very nice life already: the Crawley family adores her, she has a bestie in Violet, and she never seems to lack for male attention. She certainly doesn't need the money or a place to live so she is set. Merton & sons probably would have insisted that she cut back on her charity work and would have berated her for her sympathy for the downtrodden. The boys are a reflection of the home she would have lived in

I think Rose's descendants may end up being some type of political operative a la In The Loop. She can defuse a potential scandal in a heartbeat for even the most vile character and have everybody emerge smiling.