Prime Suspect had some good lines. "There's no murders in Norwegia. Just the occasional raised voice." "Our people dug the Erie Canal. Of course they can dig a hole through some sheet-rock."

It was interesting to hear Mark Sheppard doing an American accent.

Ugh, this episode of The Mentalist is irritating.

Starting off from Lisbon getting so teary and panicky when Jane was being resuscitated.

you haven't even finished it yet!

I've been rewatching my DVDs of Life. I hadn't realised that Garret Dillahunt played Roman Nevikov. Very different performance from Raising Hope.

Right? He was playing a lot of Russian gangsters there for a while.

Not to mention his dual evil roles in Deadwood, one banal, and the other really fucking scary.

As a matter of fact, I got so used to him playing bad guys, seeing him in Raising Hope initially gave me massive tonal dissonance.

He was also in The Sarah Connor Chronicles as a terminator.

As a matter of fact, I got so used to him playing bad guys, seeing him in Raising Hope initially gave me massive tonal dissonance.

That made me enjoy him even more in Raising Hope, somehow. And I didn't realize that was him in either role in Deadwood. Huh.

He also was one of (I think) two men who played Sam's ex-husband on er.

That made me enjoy him even more in Raising Hope, somehow.

Also, what sumi said. He's played psychos for a while, so I love seeing him let loose with the goofy on Raising Hope.