To me it just comes across as cowardly. They don’t want to make a show where cops are the good guys, so have a bunch of them quit, and others start of “reforms” that will “change” things but it’s all meaningless and hollow lip-service.

A C+? “The Game of Boyles” was worth it for Kevin running in the rain to reunite with Holt. And I’m not just saying that because Kevin’s my favourite character.

As for this:

“This was the first time when their efforts felt a bit phony, and try as they might, a zany undercover scheme can’t distract from the core naïveté…

Another subtle line from last night’s episode. Everyone reacts to the account having over a million with happiness of awe.

Multi-millionaire Cheryl Tunt though? “Hey that’s cute.”

As much as this was a Mallory episode, it’s hard not to give a shout out to Judy Greer again. She was absolutely on fire this episode, and Pam’s confusion over what they were meant to be doing added to it so well.

Even Leslie Bibb came back for half a line.

Iron Man 2, Thor and The Incredible Hulk do all happen around the same time.

During the final Tony/Fury scene in Iron Man 2, where Fury rejects Tony for the Avengers, you see a news reporter on one of the many screens reporting on the incident at the Culver University from the Hulk movie.

Way back in the day, Marvel…

Still feels like they’re going out of their way to contrive reasons for Rosa to appear.

SWAT has always had an element of “How do I justify being a black cop in LA” to it’s storytelling. It’s had black characters (multiple, actually) disagree on methods of helping the community, whether they should be cops in the first place, whether what they’re doing is enough or even worth while. I was worried that…

If it ends with all of the quitting, then that seems even more cowardly.

That’s a great argument to make. Pity no one actually said anything of the sort for you to argue against. 

I love how that’s the part you pick out. It was in reference to, as I said, characters ***literally kneeling*** before a portrait of the man. It was gratuitous, especially given everything else the show had done when it comes to portraying racial relations.

Rose quitting and that entire first episode plot line was basically B99 doing what Boyle was doing with Terry in his plotline. It was almost cowardly.

Compare it to what was meant to be the comic relief plot, where we get the revelation of what Holt’s been going through. That felt real. That felt like real consequence.…

Well next week’s review ought to be interesting...

And if you’re a Voltron fan and/or a Casino/Goodfellas fan, well, have fun!

I can’t call this one awful because the dragon sex episode still exists. Until they can find a way to remove that from the timeline, it will always be the gold standard of awful Rick & Morty.

This was supremely silly, but not so dumb as to be actually bad. I’ve seen people losing their minds over how gross this is, and…

Leverage is a show that almost overstayed its welcome (unlike, say, Burn Notice, which went 2 seasons too long). In fact, during its final season, the episode “The Rundown Job” showed that you could still do the show with just Hardison/Parker/Elliot, and that Sophie and Nate weren’t necessary at all.

I never liked…

“redundant”

Other than setting up next week’s episode, I’d hardly call this redundant. Giving us an episode from a different perspective, and having the Bad Batch cameo in their own show is a bold choice to make. The fact that we get to spend an episode with young Hera, showing part of her history that we don’t know,…

This episode didn’t really have an ending. It just sorta... stopped. It’s like there’s a reel missing or something.

I mean, this show has a singing narrator delivering songs to camera, and that doesn’t get more of a shout-out in the view? That was the funniest part to me.

Also:

“Digg?”
“Yes ma’am, I definitely do dig!”

Fun episode with a good use of (and excuse for) flashbacks. And next episode... John Diggle... for some reason.

“Superman & Lois is taking two weeks off and will be back with a new episode on July 13!”

Oh for fuck’s sake...

Tremendous bit of physical acting from Raffi Barsoumian as the paralytic was kicking in. He was certainly a fun villain, and even if we never see him again the eccentric singing clonemaster was certainly nice to have around.