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My guess is that Seven (heh) is sick, but junkie is also a possibility. Oh, Three, you murdering bastard. I liked him hitting Five up for a loan and telling her not to touch his guns. He's becoming quite the exasperated big brother to her. Android, the (former) One, and Two are my favorite characters, but Five is coming on strong this season. Well, I pretty much love the show unconditionally and have since the pilot.

Oh, Alvin. Busting out that old military mess hall/elementary lunchroom favorite, chicken à la king. At least it wasn't tuna! I kid, because all those vol-au-vent stuffings sounded very tasty. Pulled pork and puff pastry, kmn. Seems like Nadiya maybe should have stuck it out with her original batch of puff pastry dough despite the unmixed chunks of butter, but hindsight.

Kind of felt bad for the judges having to eat all those workarounds this week. I'm glad Alvin did well with his straightforward upside down cake. He was so nervous to be finished early! My mother made hers in a cast iron skillet so that the top slices were richly caramelized, so Alvin's looked a little anemic compared to what I'm used to. I hope this signals a trend of Nadiya coming into her own overall.

I re-watched it this morning and am still laughing about Seth's suggestions for new Republican introductory songs. Leslie was likely booked a while ago for tonight, but it was timely and I'm glad she got a chance to address her recent Twitter controversy.

Yowza! Was this my favorite episode of a late night talk show ever? It might have been! Awesome from beginning to end, and done live!

Funny beginning to end! I only wish Jerry had turned it into a 2-parter like he did with Fallon. One of my favorite parts of watching is imagining the thoughtful joy with which Jerry picks (1) the right car for each guest, and (2) the right sneakers for each car.

Bad TV behavior usually has consequences but I don't mind if it doesn't. I just watched the first season of a U.K. cop show from a few years ago about police corruption and almost everyone went unpunished in the end. That was the point of the show. The journey for viewers was the situational ethics of it all; seeing the line between good and bad blur and then move entirely. It adds layers to the characters and can be compelling. I tend not to like dreary, depressing shows, where every single person is messed up and dark and gritty, but that's more a boredom issue for me than needing people to get their just desserts.

Gawd! You'd think ONE TEENAGER in the world would live in a single-story house. Instead the suitors are forced to throw pebbles at the window and climb an unbelievably sturdy drainpipe or trellis. The roof always has eaves for convenient exterior perching. As an added bonus, nudity! Extra credit if the actor slides down the wall of the shower to sit in a heap on the floor.

Great article, Eve! Appreciate the scientific method.

I remember Louis saying in an interview that he deliberately didn't care about continuity because he's a rebel, man! He doesn't kowtow to network mediocrity! (At least that's how I heard it in my head.) But if he really meant for each episode to exist on its own, he failed at that, too. Mostly I feel sorry for Daniel having to slog his way through this. I've been morosely re-taking the mental journey along with him -- wanting so much to like the show and giving it chance after chance, but primarily feeling bewilderment, disgust, and very occasionally, mild amusement. I'm afraid it gets worse as the seasons tick by, so the death of optimism is fully warranted.

I was under the impression that it was very difficult to get good results on lip reductions, but those looked normal again. I mean, I assume she had a very thin upper lip to start with ...

He did! But that was to avenge his sister's death. I don't think he's linked to the Truth Terrorist. It's a very low bar for being a good guy on this show.

Yes! (Although I had to look up his name before I posted that.) He's the brother of Suze the drug addict and owns/runs the hostel. He seems to have some creepy ulterior motives and certainly has it out for Suze's boyfriend, but I think he was genuinely trying to help that homeless woman and her son.

I assume it's being kept deliberately obscure, but I keep changing my mind on whether or not Stephen Beaumont is a bad guy. Still think Sophie's a proper fool.

I sympathize with your frustration. I've always taken exception to that hoary chestnut of inspirational messages: You Can Do Anything If You Set Your Mind To It. No! You can't! I would love to be able to sing, even in a community glee-club kind of way, but no amount of training or practice will make my vocal cords into something they're not. We've seen many people on Dancing With The Stars who, despite practicing for hours a day, can barely manage a box step. Hundreds of thousands of kids play sports and dream of becoming professionals, but only a fraction of a percentage of them do. I could never be a mathematician no matter how hard I studied. Jeb Bush will never be President. People have physical and mental limitations, dammit! I'm all for people breaking through and overcoming obstacles, duh. The recent review here of the ad for the Paralympic Games was very inspiring and moving, but can even those determined athletic strivers do anything in their lives? No! Stop saying that.

You scared me for a minute! I think it's just a slip of the tongue, though? Modine plays the evil Dr. Brenner. David Harbour is Sheriff Hopper, who I agree is kind of awesome.

If anyone's interesting in trying to figure some of this stuff out, The Guardian has fairly thorough recaps from when it aired in the UK. If you have time, the 100+ comments for each episode are pretty damned funny, mostly focused on plot confusion and how nobody knows what's going on. Sample, about who the killer might be: "I'm a beardy guy and don't have an alibi, so maybe it's me."

A season of rotating detectives could be interesting. At least I got the satisfaction of seeing the annoying Kennecki get canned. I like Mazur's talk to-the-hand attitude so far. No nonsense, indeed.

Who did Marcella hallucinate was in bed with her at the end -- Henry? One dead body with a foggy plastic bag over the head looks like another. Not sure why Marcella buried Grace's body in the first place, blackout fugue state or not. And who shot the Middle Eastern taxi driver? That subplot kind of petered out, as did his brother breaking in and holding a knife to Marcella's throat. I guess she told him enough of "the truth" that he just left? Quoting myself from episode four: "I like the female detective with the Bob's Big Boy haircut and the gay step-brother" -- how remarkably un-prescient of me!

I was trying to say I wanted to know whether she did or not, but it wasn't shown. :-) Realistically, she'd be pretty limited as an eavesdropping device for cold war Russia if she didn't understand what they were saying. I could see her forced indoctrination including language training.

It's odd to me that the late night talk shows often take the same weeks off even though they're on different networks. Seems like it would be an opportunity for a particular show to win new viewers who might not normally tune in.

Which movie?

Oh, I definitely assume the first 10 are dead! Like, exploding brain matter dead. Those nosebleeds aren't for nothing.

It may be that I was fortunate to have gotten the One Conscientious Internet Repair Person, but when my connection kept dropping, the guy actually went outside and added a new splitter (?) just for my house. He said there were too many residences on the current line.

The writers did miss an opportunity to show that Eleven can speak Russian. Assuming a season 2, I hope we get more backstory on what I assume are the other 10 subjects. We know who Eleven's mother is, so I think clones are off the table. The tattoo pretty much makes no logical sense except that an allusion to concentration camps is effective shorthand for evil.