Kendall would be a safe choice, especially as revenge for Wendy. I think his truly unhinged brother might be a compelling dark horse.

They've drawn her well. I think her repeated attempts to coax Daryl Jr. out of Kentucky let the audience know that even though she uses the same tools and skills on everybody trying to interfere with her family, she's got a sense of their limitations and of her own. A social worker she can handle, and she knows it.…

I don't think I've ever followed a site this long where the comments section's architecture just kept getting worse and worse. There's a 50/50 chance that I'll need to exorcise my entire web browser to successfully re-log onto this page without getting caught in a spiral of new windows where I'm already logged in on…

Aaaaand welcome to the "holy shit do we really have 22 episodes to fill up?" mid-season slump of irrelevance. Having checked in with one recurring guest character last week, it'll be awhile before they can pull that trick again. So here we are, aimless, shiftless, drifting monster-of-the-week with a side helping of…

This was the first episode of Arrow during which my first reaction to the usual Laurel awfulness was to blame the director and writers rather than the actress. It sounds silly, but that plate-drop was a revelation. Somebody is making bad decisions on the page. Laurel is a Type-A first child. She doesn't drop the plate.

I'm still waiting for it to cure an overdose of Magic herb, just to lampshade it properly.

This cancellation is exactly the type of thing that Psych's writers would let their main character weasel his way out of without growing in any appreciable way or learning any lessons that stuck for more than half an episode.

Is the Lana issue really an issue? Didn't the previous seasons pretty well establish that she's the Michael Bluth of ISIS?

I hear the internet is a magical place. Take from that what you will.

Maybe Kristen Bell realized that Veronica Mars, for all her good intentions, regularly behaved like a high-functioning sociopath. Maybe she thinks that Piz is exactly what she deserves, and vice-versa - "may you find what you're looking for" and all that.

Most hip-hop and rap don't leave much to the imagination. A lot of folk-inspired music benefits from a tradition of lyrical ambiguity that insulates it from accusations of being "meaningless" or "overly focused on [overused trope x.]" When it comes to many popular hip-hop and rap artists, like the referenced Jay-Z or…

It's odd that you would mention Lassie, because outside of the "Timmy in the well AGAIN" joke, it basically has no current cultural cache whatsoever. That would seem to imply that maybe those shows were spared snark and backlash that they actually deserved.

The problem with forgettable one-off villains who fancy themselves supervillains is that it's something that's already been explored to death by any number of comic books, graphic novels and movies - and most of them were already competing with Alan Moore's Watchmen, which managed to deal with it organically while…

Networks like USA and even FX should be pushing harder to air shows that deal with sexuality frankly, regardless of the genre or conceit of the show. The CW does still have the FCC excuse, but it's getting to the point where almost every show I watch feels like it suffers a credibility gap because it deals with sex in…

The decision to make Frankie a Wesen was a bit cheap, but I appreciated the subtlety of having people with military (or military-esque) training being more able to control their hulkouts. Even Frankie, as rightfully messed up as she was, never hulked involuntarily.

I, for one, think that this not-twisty-twist demonstrates just how limiting basic cable's self-enforced decency standards can be when it comes to dealing with anything even remotely sexual. Neal has a fucking problem, if you'll forgive the pun, and on a raw, premium-cable version of White Collar, it could go to some…

The hearing was a result of Nick getting gooped by an entirely different Wesen prior to the undeadifying goop. Maybe Grimms are like Gryffindor's Sword, absorbing power from stuff that ought to kill them or permanently mess them up, but at the cost of being increasingly inhuman in obvious and verifiable ways.

The absence of a freakout is supposed to be the evidence. The show went through the motions of showing Hank becoming a shotgun-cradling nutcase because of his run-in with Monroe, but then compromised their own mythology in order to avoid making him nothing but a liability. They held on a little longer to the idea that…

I think the historical picture is that the pigs were very tightly integrated into "civilized" society as an underclass who weren't a focus of the Grimms, both for better and for worse. As long as they didn't make trouble the Royals didn't sic Grimms on them, but they also couldn't expect any assistance from the Royals…

I don't think this criticism is entirely fair. The show has definitely changed, and I think it's down to the fact that Shawn hasn't - or, at the very least, that his "development" has become erratic to the point of complete implausibility.