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Will and Grace, really? Sigh. I mean, no skin off my nose and I'm not gonna watch, but this is supposed to be the era of peak TV, not repeat TV. What's next, Our Miss Brooks and My Little Margie?

Why was Bill Maher so weird about refusing to answer if he was friends with any conservatives? He ducked and bobbed and Conway-ed to avoid the question until Jimmy finally gave up.

I also assumed it was way too old a reference, but I couldn't think of anything other than mash to go with monster. What else is there? Well, now that I typed that, monster truck comes to mind.

My tastes and needs aren't everyone's (more's the pity!), but out of the big three, Amazon is the one I'd jettison first if I didn't still want Prime shipping benefits. I watch Netflix almost exclusively for TV series and have hundreds of hours of older shows waiting in my queue. Hulu is good if I've missed an episode of a current show, although those are generally also available online with commercials. I've gotten in the habit of putting Hulu on hold for 2-3 months at a time until there's something I want to binge. The ad-free version of Hulu is also 43% more expensive per month than Netflix. From what I see on their "new releases" list, I agree that Netflix's movies are poorly reviewed bottom dwellers. In the end, Netflix would absolutely be the last service I'd personally give up, although I agree that having content go POOF is frustrating.

It looks like Rutube has them available. Enjoy!

Honestly! Although Billy screaming that what's-her-name IS TRANS cracked me up. I felt like I couldn't use the ones Keegan did and it took me 5+ minutes of quiet contemplation, but I finally cobbled together a list. Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper Don Lemon Ellen Degeneres Portia deRossi Tig Notaro Noah Galvin RuPaul Sandra Bernhard Wanda Sykes

Good day, my 1.1 Tone Scale brethren! Leah looks so cute in her glasses. I liked Mike's story about advising Travolta to pass on Pulp Fiction. Kevin James to Leah: "Don't try to get me in your Tom Cruise glare, man." As much fun as it is to think about Davy's blood pressure going into the stratosphere because of the show, I do feel very sad for the current staff members who are no doubt being punished, punched or locked up because of it. Daddy needs someone to blame!

Trevor telling Roy that he did a pretty good Steve Harvey impersonation: "It's mostly the mustache." And the bald cap. If I had caught a glimpse while flipping channels I probably would have thought it was Harvey. The phrase"alt footwear" for the Nazi imprint boots made me snort-laugh. I want to use the face Trevor made as my desktop wallpaper. Damn straight there are no term limits in people's hearts!

Fantastic episode and great guests! I hope details about the physical abuse and imprisonment of Sea Org members gets out to a much wider audience now, along with the information about destructive cults in general. I teared up when Hassan got emotional over being terrorized. Thanks so much to Leah and Mike for all they've done. As Leah said, it was the least amount of fun she's ever had but the most rewarding. When Mike acknowledged all the support and said it wasn't what he was expecting, I wonder what he thought the response would be? Hate from $cilons for sure, but it sounded like he was braced for a negative reaction from the public as well.

How does the concept of a godchild even apply in Scientology? You take the baby to an auditing session with you and hold the cans over it while promising to disconnect as needed?

It's supposedly pretty easy to beat a polygraph so you'd think Scilons would be expert at tricking the e-meter after 500 hours or so.

I'm still thinking about that poor dog with the huge cheek abscess on Dr. Pol this week. Dr. Emily lanced it and put in a drain but the dog came back in a few days later with the skin ripped open all the way down his neck. They said it had burst from the pressure but there shouldn't have been that much pressure with the drain there, right? And maybe it wasn't possible to use a protective cone or bandages, but I'm thinking the wound opened because the dog was scratching at it. And sorry, but the owners waited far too long before they brought the dog in. At least it had a good ending but I'm imagining another complaint to the vet board from another random vet about how that case was handled.

Hey, A&E -- I still wanted a First Look segment for tomorrow's AMA! Don't try to trick me with a marathon.

Gatiss' recent poetry dust-up with critics has reassured me that he remains as pompous and thin-skinned as ever, He also emailed one blogger who was dismissive about said poem that there was a typo in the article. Good use of his time, I'm sure. Gatiss being a dickwad makes it hard for me to enjoy his acting, which in truth has been impeccable.

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I liked chubby child Mycroft, so there's that.

For this viewer, at least. I've never written, directed, created, starred or done anything related to TV shows other than watch, so forgive my ignorance. I can understand the people involved not wanting to become repetitive, hidebound and/or predictable. But this season was just too much of an over correction into psychological thriller. I'm not against that sort of show per se, but it isn't why I (used to) love Sherlock. I made it about halfway through before deleting. That damned behind the scenes segment at the beginning made me cross to start with. FF > FF > FF > gah, it's still going?? And why was Mycroft wearing sleeve garters, of all things, in the opening scene. That's taking his punctilious sense of style to a new extreme.

The other couple who ended up adopting two more hounds to keep their first one company were goofy to me. Not in any way uncaring, but kind of mindlessly collecting animals in an attempt to "cheer up" a dog who simply seemed naturally quiet if not timid. I was a little surprised that everyone a VRC immediately recognized Melfi from her photo, fattened up and all. I know the staff are in almost daily contact with their animals, but there have been hundreds of them over the years.

I'm sorry the show hasn't been up to par for you, @Arwenevenstar. I'm on the opposite side because I appreciate having a plot and mystery to solve after the disappointment of Sherlock's so far aimless season 4. In truth, I just like watching Shaun and Roger do their thing. I'll even take them morose and crabby. I could have done without the final scene, though, because what the hell? Joan supposedly left because she needed time away and/or a fresh start after the trauma of the bank robbery. She sneaked out because she didn't want her parents to try to talk her out of it but I never got the sense that she blamed or was angry at them. Maybe I misinterpreted that, but I don't understand why she's snubbing everyone now. Why call Morse and hang up? I'm going to be cross if she's in some sort of danger and this season turns into the Save Joan Show. Mrs. Religious Crusader's daughter gave me the creeps. I'm glad Morse didn't fall for her brand of female crazy like he usually does. I guess the point was to reflect the atmosphere of the time, but the medical predictions of LSD perhaps ruining one's mind forever were silly. Hallucinations for life! While I appreciate Trewlove being bright and thorough at her job, I don't like the way she's been propping up the plot with info that everyone else has missed. I could maybe see her as a character who reminds Morse of himself and pushes him to re-discover a love for his job or similar cliché, but he's already young and too clever to need that sort of shaking up now. It's not that I want or expect him to be an expert on everything, but Trewlove shouldn't either. Or else she needs to change her name to Siri.

Margo brings the hammer! I'm not familiar with everything on her IMDB page, but does she ever play a straight-up kindly grandmother? Even when the facade is sweet there's real menace simmering underneath, like the scene gathering eggs in the barn: "Little bastard coming into our house, staking a claim to what isn't his." Totally in reference to a fox, of course. She goes from jovial to ice cold in a blink. Between this and Mags on Justified, I might step across the street if I saw Margo approaching me.

Thanks for posting, Amanda! I'm curious if any of the ideas/plans you alluded to have worked out or are they in process? A cookbook maybe? You were always so composed, kind, and calm on the show -- it was a pleasure watching you.

It isn't what it looks like. (Because explaining what it really is might prevent that upcoming series of misunderstandings.) I'll explain later. (Used when an explanation is needed now in order to prevent future catastrophe.)

Not that I'm against it per se, but Ophelia and Evan are already adorable together.

The trailer was already horrifyingly off-putting to me, but yeah. The All-Elfman boycott is in place for sure. I was also looking at Giovanni Ribisi's new series Sneaky Pete that's a firm no as well.

The point where I crossed over from admiring Leah's brass balls to loving her completely was not when she asked about Shelly at Tom's wedding, but when she wrote up a Knowledge Report on Miscavige after seeing him play slap and tickle with his personal assistant. She RATTED OUT THE POPE OF SCIENTOLOGY. The woman has no sense of self-preservation or tact when her sense of right and wrong is challenged. Old school Brooklyn all the way!