A quieter, gentler ‘Vampire Diaries’ still delivers fast-moving storylines, love triangles, new mysteries and novel character dynamics.

Jack and Liz have always been the backbone of ’30 Rock’ and that didn’t change this week as Jack gave Liz the 3rd degree about her new secret boyfriend.

‘The Big Bang Theory’ celebrates its 100th episode by showing us a small ‘what-if’ scenario. Only they don’t tell us it is fantasy until after we’ve bought into the story.

I’m just saying … Elizabeth could pretend as much as she wanted that she was cold, but with the thermostat turned up that high in the room, she’d have been sweating buckets just like her injured captor. And that doesn’t make her any less of a lady.

We’ve heard Frankie make some pretty lame excuses in the past, but how about her rationalization for using the Donahues’ brand new car. “People do meth.” In her old car?

If you watched the season finale of ‘Sherlock’, we’d like to apologize – both for your emotional pain and because after those 90 minutes of perfection, all television is inevitably downhill from here.

When you jump in a lake, it’s best to know how to swim. Except when you’re a ‘Face Off’ contestant … where the rules don’t apply.