She was Meg in Veronica Mars.

I agree that I loved Parker in this episode. The rest sort of fell flat for me.

I mean seriously - she has her own version of Bjork's swan dress with X-ed-out eyes and is also a squeeze toy? That alone would have made the episode for me (much as the Angel dancing scene in She was justification alone for that episode. Granted there I can just watch the teaser and skip the rest of the episode - except perhaps for the museum tour bit).

I'm watching it again because I was kinda exhausted the first time round. Parker and Hardison and a bit of Eliot are fun in this, but it's not big team magic this week.

Nate is rocking the hat, though. And the fangirls are cute.

Oh dear lord though, I did love Parker as the Icelandic rock star. "I don't think I'm being weird enough!" "Somehow I doubt that."

Ack, that was too silly for me. Plus, it didn't really feel right for Parker to me.

Also, her dancing pick-pocketing bit.

That, however, was awesome.

Who is Alona Tal and why should I know her?

she was also Jo in Supernatural.

Dean Devlin said on Twitter that Leverage's ratings went up 27% for last Sunday's episode. He had previously said that the ratings were good and going up, so this is doubly good, or something.

ooh, even better:

via Turner press notes:

TNT’s new drama Rizzoli & Isles, which set an ad-supported cable record as the most-watched commercial-supported series launch of all time, ranked as the top scripted program for the week among adults 25-54 (2,722,000). The series came in a close second behind The Closer for the year-to-date among viewers (7,553,000) and households (5,674,000).

Sunday, TNT’s Leverage scored the series’ biggest audience since its December 2008 premiere and ranked as ad-supported cable’s top program for the entire day among viewers (3,932,000) and households (2,902,000). The episode also scored the series’ best deliveries of its third season among viewers, households, adults 18-49 (1,374,000) and adults 25-54 (1,823,000).

Leverage scored tremendous growth over the prior week’s episode, with viewers up 36%, households up 35%, adults 18-49 up 31% and adults 25-54 up 45%.

TNT’s Tuesday night lineup continues to perform strongly, with last week’s episode of HawthoRNe delivering 2,645,000 viewers, while Memphis Beat built on that success with 2,951,000 viewers.

TNT’s original series lifted the network to another first-place finish among ad-supported cable networks in total day delivery of adults 25-54.

Alona Tal was also Jo on Supernatural.

You know, all I can say about White Collar these days is that Peter and Neal continue to be the cutest couple ever.

The look in Neal's eyes when he told Peter that he had never lied to him totally looked like "wounded boyfriend". There's no way the writers don't see that.

OMG, I have totally played the "but not a lie" card, and you know what? It's only a semantic high ground. It's not a moral one. Neal set out to deceive.

Hmmph.

OTOH, the woundedness is very cute.

eta: x-post of wounds!