Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy
- Episode aired Oct 17, 2019
- TV-PG
- 22m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
Uncertainty abounds when an unexpected visitor arrives.Uncertainty abounds when an unexpected visitor arrives.Uncertainty abounds when an unexpected visitor arrives.
Benjamin Koldyke
- Brent Norwalk
- (as Ben Koldyke)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe title is a variation of the movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), which is about a secret agent working on the inside.
- GoofsOnce the gang discovers and interrogates Bad Janet in disguise, Bad Janet explains how she got there. In the visual recap it's shown that Bad Janet marbleizes Good Janet to take her place. However, Good Janet was marbleized via her right ear even though it's supposed to be the left ear, which was explained back in S2:E6 (Janet and Michael).
- Quotes
[Janet has accidentally blown up Glenn]
Janet: That was not supposed to happen. I've never killed anyone before.
Michael: No, don't worry. Demons can't die. He'll slowly re-form himself over a few months, passing through all the stages of demon growth: larva, slug monster, spooky little girl, teenage boy, giant ball of tongues, uh, social media CEO and then, finally, demon.
- ConnectionsReferences Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Featured review
This is impossibly good
I'm a sitcom snob. Never did the hour-long dramas, never watched anything unscripted. Just sitcoms. Hardly a week goes by but I equate something in life to a bit from Seinfeld. So I feel quite confident in making this statement -- this episode is quite possibly the most creative television programming ever to be broadcast.
The acting is amazing, of course. Every single performance is Emmy worthy, and Ted Danson has reached the top of Mt. Olympus. But it's the writing that's underneath the show, holding it up, propelling it forward, that's so fresh and original and unprecedented and unique and vivid it makes you feel lucky just to experience the words as the characters speak them. And the plotting? Riding the rapid-fire shifts in clues and probabilities, combined with all the outcomes and reveals you never saw coming, is more thrilling than anything they got at Disneyland.
I would be sad knowing that this is their last season except for the fact that we're experiencing a great crop of sitcoms now. Sunnyside. Perfect Harmony. Young Sheldon. The Unicorn. Just to name a few. This is truly a golden age for sitcom writing on television. And none of it -- not the shows I'm watching -- is grotesque. Hooray for the sublime!
The acting is amazing, of course. Every single performance is Emmy worthy, and Ted Danson has reached the top of Mt. Olympus. But it's the writing that's underneath the show, holding it up, propelling it forward, that's so fresh and original and unprecedented and unique and vivid it makes you feel lucky just to experience the words as the characters speak them. And the plotting? Riding the rapid-fire shifts in clues and probabilities, combined with all the outcomes and reveals you never saw coming, is more thrilling than anything they got at Disneyland.
I would be sad knowing that this is their last season except for the fact that we're experiencing a great crop of sitcoms now. Sunnyside. Perfect Harmony. Young Sheldon. The Unicorn. Just to name a few. This is truly a golden age for sitcom writing on television. And none of it -- not the shows I'm watching -- is grotesque. Hooray for the sublime!
- danieldomecq
- Oct 25, 2019
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