You probably can't help SNL either. It's telling that there's more to be said about SNL's race problems than SNL has said about race problems in ages. And if you raise the bar up to "was actually somewhat incisive or funny," then jesus, how long has it been?

I dunno dude, at a certain point that's like an avalanche taking credit for gravity. Or a lottery winner taking credit for the laws of probability. I dunno. Something presumptuous and myopic.

The show never did a good job of explaining how hell was run in Lucifer's absence. As near as I can tell, it was nominally run by a cult of demons who believed as religiously in his return and earthly triumph as the angels did in that same narrative, except the angels had a little "then heaven wins somehow" tacked…

@RedScarab:disqus The CW is using the soap-opera formula instead of the traditional (and awful) network TV sci-fi/fantasy formula. That's why so many of their shows are flawed but watchable. Granted, they still have their fair share of egregious duds, but their average is impressive.
Even though Sleepy Hollow over on…

There's something about this guy's voice that just doesn't work for me. "Fireman" stands out as an exception, and when I first heard it, it never once occurred to me that the singer would sing like that on every song. Hearing that same delivery on a song like "Boxcar" was incredibly jarring. I think Darnielle brought…

The answer being untreated mental illness. Super dark.

Well, I'm not sure I ever thought I'd be complimenting an episode of TVD for this: Katherine gets told by Jeremy. So choice.

I hope so too, but I don't hold your breath. Dude went up against multiple men armed with automatic weapons who had control of a hostage, and the way he achieved his "no-kill" mandate was by taking cover slightly more often.

@avclub-6307a12d5c9e2fb5f23518a9a0ee8dd1:disqus In this role, it's already deployed to tremendous effect as a sociopath's well-worked asset disguised as a tic. Glau's a pro. Lots of folks in the genre circuit are, and they're tragically underappreciated.

Like every Supernatural season premiere, there are some good ideas here. Now to see if this time around they manage to build a sustainable season's worth of episodes around them with proper pacing, or if they digress and flail for the entire middle and then come up with some really cool stuff for the last two episodes.

If somebody in the no-kill squad figures out that torturing, maiming and crippling does not equate to killing, I'm in. If they don't, then what are we even doing here, people?

I'll be more inclined to credit the show's good points when the entire thing stops being a clockwork exercise in explaining why murder isn't the simplest answer to everyone's problems - or, if not everyone's, then at least the nigh-invincible, bloodthirsty, perpetually butthurt psychopath's.

For what's coming, I think the double-tap is key. Always double-tap.

@avclub-51bd29e9119b3236b7aaed1632f7d185:disqus I'm not sold on the mythology post-ACII ending twist, but before that, I was actually pretty stoked that the developers subtly (and, at times, not-so-subtly) implied that basically everyone who ever grabbed the magical doohickey was "evil," in the sense that they were…

She may be in limbo. That's nice. It's subtle. I like it.

Maybe 72 demons was an army back then, but these days you can barely take over a Starbucks with a dozen!

I think The Simpsons had its "I hate The Simpsons" phase at least ten years ago. Now it's in the "I stayed married by learning not to care at all" phase, which can last until death.

Coulson knows. The "magical place" repetition was subtle and ambiguous, but his little crack about his mid-life crisis actually being more of an after-life crisis was about as on-the-nose as you can get.

That's a great distinction. Maybe "Slavery" would make it easier to translate visually? I think that, with only a modicum of poetic license, you could equate one with the other; slavery both is a usual consequence of conquest (lowercase,) and necessarily implies the existence of other, related consequences. It's…

Doesn't this sound like the project of some insufferable college student who's getting his degree in Cancer-Curing, but on the side plays a few instruments and really wants to put together a "totally terrible" cover album of all the songs he really hates? People like that do actually exist, and it sounds like…