I was letting episodes pile up on the DVR after catching the first two and finding them moderately amusing. Got back into it this past week, and the third episode (“My Dick Sucks”) is squirmingly uncomfortable and relies on escalating deceit in the time-honored sitcom fashion, but the resolution blew me away with how…

Nadja always has the perfect line to puncture inflated masculinity, even when she believes she’s supporting it. It’s a glorious performance.

I kinda thought it was a clever bit of stealth marketing - “Sure, we’ll clear you to use the name, just mention it at the end of the hour so people know we exist that you did your due diligence.” If only 1% of FX’s national audience gets curious, by local indie rock band standards, that’s making it baby!

I was slightly cheered by the fact that they seem to be treating the Central City Citizen as an actual thing in a few episodes this season, rather than just as a plot device to feed Barry plot information. That’s the way to write Iris storylines that let her demonstrate independent awesomeness.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, actress Efrat Dor also plays a villain in the third and final season of the Amazon show Sneaky Pete. It’s pretty rare that a villain in a superhero show will be more nuanced than a villain in a crime/character drama, but she holds her own in a great cast, and the show is worth checking…

Gotta wait for Stargirl, premiering next week. He’s part of the Legion of Doom.

I have to say that part of why Lena’s apology didn’t quite stick the landing for me is that Katie McGrath overdid it just a bit with her facial expressions. There isn’t a single line in that monologue that isn’t accompanied by some kind of face-twitch or anguished lip-quiver — and while, as the culminating moment of a…

I think Sting does, I’m not so sure about the rest of us.

I had one of those relentless complainers as a co-worker for awhile too. It was morbidly fascinating the way that this guy could effortlessly move the goalposts when whatever petty complaint he had been moaning about was addressed or absent on any particular day.

Zari and Nate have kind of switched backstories: Nate used to be the one whose childhood was stable, but didn’t feel like he had his dad’s respect and wanted to be a hero in order to measure up, and Zari was the one whose pursuit of heroism came from the tragic loss of her family. Now Nate has lost his dad and Other Za…

If we’re talking specifically “what did you contribute to The Runaways,” maybe I don’t disagree too much. But I will stack any of Joan Jett’s covers up against “Kiss Me Deadly” or anything on Lita with the possible exception of her duet with Ozzy Osbourne (which is not really a great song or a great duet, but it has a…

That is exactly what I would want out of a Susie Quatro’s dad experience, to be honest. (Though probably not for the duration of an entire wedding.) Nobody’s as good as my little girl!

My one nitpick is that the host of StabCast should have made clear that the demon dog belonged to Berkowitz’s neighbor — it wasn’t his dog, exactly.

Joan Jett had all the musical talent in that group. I’m just saying.

Nate was on fire in this episode — he’s always had that gear, perhaps showing it most vividly in the episode where he can inexplicably understand the grunts of the pigs that Ray and Mick got turned into, but lately he’s been mired in somewhat boring family and relationship drama. This felt like the first chance in…

Hartley is back to hating the Flash for accidentally causing his right-hand man Roderick to lose control of his molecules, putting him in a constant vibratory state.

On the other hand, those Firestorm fx still look so cool...

Rewatch buddies! I’m up to the home stretch of S2, and at this point I think there are a couple big problems with the first season, one specific and one general.

Artists always think that they are experts in fields outside of their own even when they are not. They have a right to their opinions like every citizen but I wouldn’t get any political epiphanies from their echo chamber thoughts.

This write-up needs more synonyms for “Tom Hanks.” Former Bosom Buddy? Co-holder of the deed to a Money Pit? One-time Extreme LARPer? We Gen Xers love Tom too, you know.