The only problem with the Esposito and Ryan show is that they rode a really fine line of playing Ryan like too much a buffoon when he's really pretty bright and good at his job.

Although I did love the "Annie Oakley" line.

I'm liking Detroit 1-8-7 already. Might be the music.

eta Yep. Best of the new shows so far.

I adore Jon Michael Hill. And I'm glad they're actually filming in Detroit.

I liked Undercovers, although it would have had to completely suck for me to hate it. It was a little simplistic, but I'll give it a shot.

I watched the rerun of Chase. I got a little verklempt when they referred to DC as "Super Court". That's what my marshals used to call it. Point for authenticity.

I'm waiting for Lewis to get back here so we can watch CM. On the upside, I'll be able to fast-forward through commercials.

I wanted so much to like tonight's episode, but after a rewatch, I'm still meh on it. Individual parts were awesome, and the Cohen soundtrack was amazing, but it never came together as a whole. And the final confrontation doesn't jibe with what we know of Morgan.

Argh, I need to be more coherent about this, but I'm finding it difficult. My thoughts have obviously not completely gelled yet.

That had the feel of a massive rewrite in order to set up JJ's departure.

I'm with Maria—individual parts were really good, but other parts were just... meh. Then again, I may be bitter that Spicer was killed, because I really liked him.

I really liked him too. He and his partner would have been better for a spin-off than the people in the actual spin-off.

AJ did a wonderful job with the material she was given and I'm glad they gave her that opportunity but...I did not think much of the episode at all.

I thought Spicer and Ellie were the best bits. With the exception of JJ's moment in the spotlight I thought the characters I've grown to love were exceedingly dull and mostly just stood around looking puzzled. Morgan's temper flare at Garcia and subsequent comment to Hotch were out of character. I might have bought the shortness but the comment to Hotch was extreme for Morgan who isn't a complainer. Meh.

The whole time I watched, I had vicious thoughts towards the producers over AJ and Paget. I'm not sure I can get over it. I adore the others, but I'm not sure I can stay with the show feeling this level of hostility, and I certainly can't if they don't deliver better episodes.

You know, too, on thinking on it some more, I think part of my discontent lay in the fact that I think they took far too easy a way out with Billy Flynn. Madonna/whore complex with the mother where the son then evolves into a sociopath who mercilessly kills? Who does this remind us of? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Again, making me think a rewrite happened and they went back to a previously used scenario, except Flynn wasn't directly matching wits with any of the team members. Just using brutish force. I realize there are only so many ways you can play the UnSubs, but they've generally been so good with the cases and fairly solid with them. For the conclusion of a two-parter, that also served as a season premiere, they really dropped the ball.

I honestly thought Morgan was just going to go off the rails and go rogue for this ep. which would have been such a powerful moment for him—the guy who is so bound to authority as a former police officer and FBI agent, just losing it.

But... they had to set up JJ leaving.