I don't know why, but Alba rolling up in her yellow, racing-striped Mini to pick up Jane made me chuckle quite a bit. I can't remember any show I've been more eager to rewatch since Bunheads (RIP BUNHEADS). So many lovely little bits of business like that to catch and savour the second, third, fourth time around.

Regarding your final sentence: me too. I would be furious with the writers for that foreshadowing (how could it mean anything else than what we're dreading?) if it wasn't such a beautiful, audacious bit of craft. On just about every other show that's ever been meta enough to deploy such a gambit, it would simply be…

This is very on point. The irrationality of depressive behaviour (or the behaviour of a depressed person) makes it a tricky thing to depict in fiction, given that portions of your audience will always expect plots and character developments to conform to their own personal standards of logic, but the way JtV handled…

10 more seconds of Jane Seymour-administered slaps would also have moved the episode into automatic A+ territory. Someone needs to make one of those endless repetition videos, like Tyrion slapping Joffrey to "Achilles' Last Stand". Not that Rogelio is in any way as deserving of being slapped as Joffrey, but that was…

"while Quinlan’s lyrics recall Conor Oberst’s ability to overanalyze compact moments until they carry an improbable weight."

I'm not taking issue with your opinion — that Wonder Woman's original origin story isn't as ideal a starting point for a franchise as Batman or Superman's — but in your initial comment, you seemed to cherrypick one of Marston's motivations behind creating the character. I'm not discounting that Marston's fascination…

If he had used Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman as a source, he might have realised that his "information" about WW's creator William Moulton Marston was a bit garbled (at best).

We don't save Flash, Flash saves us! It's right there in the song!

Not making the book available on Kindle before filing this suit? That's just bad business.

I say, language! Did you get into that enchanted band candy again, Mr. Giles?

I'm mortified if this is true, but apparently I'm too dense to tell what I'm missing. Would you point it out for me?

I'm sure the rest of the article is fine and well-written, but I'm having a hard time getting past this bit about "Beat It" and "Bad":

Ooof. That certainly was from 2003, all right.

I'm pretty sure I have the entire season on an old CD-R at the top of my closet somewhere. You only have to get to Oslo, and you can totally borrow it for as long as you want.

I have it on good authority that the header is, in fact, not real concept art for Verbinski's new film, but a picture found through an image search and used for comedic effect. J'accuse, Rife!

Just curious, Sam: how hard was it not to make some sort "HASHTAG TRUEDETECTIVESEASON2" joke in relation to that header picture?

Is X Company any good? The Flashpoint connection gives me cautious hope.

Wait, hold the phone, you have a podcast? Is it the best?

Yeah. I do get where the animosity is coming from, but I still kinda like her. The way she said "Who is Adam Sandler" tonight was priceless.

I find it suspicious that you, as a supposedly libidinous kettle, don't know that a lot of French people are inclined to be both horny and religious.