Steven Weber is great in this super creepy role.

The twist in the case of the week was predictable, but I'm still loving this show!

In terms of "Unforgettable" - I stand by "socially ept". Her poker playing is a problem, but it is a flaw not an inability or unwillingness to get along with others. She loves making friends and flirting and is good at both. She does not piss off everybody she meets as a sport the way Jane in The Mentalist does. She is capable of poking at someone she really thinks deserves it; but that is a select few, not most of those she encounters.

Incidentally, I also like poker (I think it is poker rather than all gambling) as a flaw cause it fits her particular kind of competitiveness so well. She is super competitive and loves to win. But while she gets a kick out of taking people in friendly competitions she can't lose, she needs real challenges that her memory alone won't get through. But at the same time, she loves using her special talent. Athletics though something she is good at, is not enough. She needs challenges where she can use her special talent to the full, but that at the same time requires efforts from other parts of her, facets of herself where she holds no special advantage. Both her work and her addiction fit this.

Her perfect memory is a huge advantage in detective works, but would not make her a great detective is she was not also smart, good at reading people, well trained, athletic, good at playing a part when she needs to, and so.

Similarly, Poker requires three major skills. One is mathematically figuring out what the odds are of other players holding certain cards, and the odds of certain others being left in the deck. Someone might match her at that, but no one is going to be better. But the other two skills are reading the people you play against, and guessing from their tells what kind of hand they hold, and concealing your own tells, your own body language and habits that give away what you are holding. And while she is probably good at both, she is not as good as the best poker players who read and conceal tells every day , day in and day out.

Poker, like detective work, is a challenge she can't resists because it calls on her special gift, but challenges her other talents as well. If it comes to this, I would predict that if the choice is every forced upon her, detective work would beat gambling; detection requires a wider variety of talents than poker, including her physical strength, endurance and skill

Did not catch that about the tragic past.

That just made me interested in Unforgettable. Good work, TB.

I'm transferring to a new TiVo (thanks, donor!) and it's sad what I can't bring over (Daybreak), but it's nice to put shiny new shows on too.

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That just made me interested in Unforgettable. Good work, TB.

My virtual toaster is in the pipeline, but only a very basic, 2 slice toaster.

Steven Weber is great in this super creepy role.

I kinda feel like he's been playing this kind of role a lot lately, but he is good at it.

I am loving the whole Shonda Rhimes Thursday night lineup this week.

Would this be the place to discuss Gracepoint?

I'm trying to stick with it for the Tennant, but I'm finding it very unwatchable.

l'm watching it for DT and Anna Gunn and because I accidentally caught the final episode of the British version. Yes, the final episode. So now I'm mostly watching to see everything that led up to the end that I've seen.

Which they've changed, from what I heard, in terms of whodunnit.

They expressly announced that in the press of the show, so I don't think it's a spoiler, but I whitefonted all the same. If a stompy feels otherwise, please exercise your discretion.

I'm confused by Elementary. TiVo says there's an ep this weekend, episode 4 of season 2. Shouldn't we be in 3?