Is it worth mentioning that Marvel seems to be leveraging all kinds of Deadpool comics now (plus Avengers membership and Spidey team-up book), while essentially suffocating the similarly Fox-affiliated X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises?

I'm a fan of the early Kool & the Gang, that tightly arranged stuff with the group vocals. In the 80's, when they got lead singer JT Taylor, and started writing pop songs, they cashed in, but I lost interest.

EWF was certainly a more polished and commercial band than hard funk outfits like Mandrill. They also had a number of crossover hits in the late 70's, like Boogie Wonderland, September, and After the Love Has Gone. Unfortunately, as time went on, with the death of frequent co-writer, Skip Scarborough, White's…

White folks may not realize it , but Earth Wind and Fire crossed over to them in the 80's, when Phil Collins hired their horn section for his solo records and touring, and when Collins produced EWF co-lead singer, Phillip Bailey's first solo album.

EWF's Gratitude was one of the first albums I paid money for. Even though I could never approach their sunny California optimism here in DC, I loved these guys.

Whole lot of ambiguity here. Taylor should have been creeped out by the bathroom encounter with that kid. But he looked as though he might have been tempted to take that call when he was alone. That supposed taste for dodgy sexual encounters seems like a real thing.

I am beginning to wonder if there is going to be a point to all these scenes of Dan and Steph's daughter. These scenes seem like an outlier to the rest of the show. Even the racial tensions at Marshall High seem more relevant.

Unless I miss my guess, Dan was starting to see Steph's point, after all that bullshit Leslie laid out on stage before the performance.

Nope.
Hasn't been that way since season 2.

I wasn't surprised that they made the Calculator Felicity's dad. But I am glad that they didn't just put him away in one episode. I'd like to see him set up as a major foe in the future. Just please, give him a decent motivation.

Another really good episode, stunt-wise. Katana and Nyssa sword-fighting, Ollie and Roy's parkour-off, even Curtis and Roy's fight. Keep it coming.

Add me to the list of people pleasantly surprised that this show didn't turn out to be a dumpster fire. This first episode was very engrossing, despite my familiarity with the case, the sometimes flagrant name-dropping, and FX loading the show with commercials.

My thing is, if he's gonna end up being Kid Flash, maybe he should have some kind of relationship with Barry.

Talking about the Patty Debacle, I expressed my annoyance with having Barry do dumb things for dumb reasons. Patty's gone, but that practice continues.

I finally watched this last week, While there was room for improvement, it wasn't bad. I assumed the movie suffered from Chris Hemsworth backlash. I wonder what a director's cut of this could add, besides length. Still, I'm mildly curious.

I was concerned this show. Mostly that any distance or probative value of this story would be abused by Murphy, with his tiring willingness to "go there." Every few months, I try to start watching a new season of AHS, only to give up, driven away by how lurid and incoherent it all is.

After Zach messed up her campaign with that abortion narrative, they did everything but put him on a crudely made raft, and send him out to sea.

Absolutely. I just wish they could have touched on it stronger.

Other than Diane's reliably irrelevant subplot, this episode finally showed TGW making some moves, even if some of them are right back where we started.

I guess this is better than nothing.