So, a little better than the mean on the Spy to Identity Thief scale, then? I like Melissa McCarthy, but a lot of her movies can tend toward the "lazy vehicle for a popular comedian" variety.

Yeah, it's in a weird place where the characters around him keep saying fucked up shit about Jamal, but he's been pretty solid, trustworthy and on-point in expressing what's up with him. I can see viewers getting distracted by all the bullshit getting thrown at him, but the point seems to be about Jamal standing…

I liked that she was the foreperson—she made a really strong impression in the "Jury in Jail" episode. That just makes her even cooler.

Blame Kaare Andrews. It hurts us too.

They're still pushing that he and Apollo are deeply in love, though. Midnighter just needs space to work through his shit before they can be together again.

Given DC's track record, they'd just make a new, gay Robin who'd be killed off in a few years.

"And now we're the assholes who brought guns to Fillory."

It crossed the line into "complete misread of Eartha Kitt" for me, though. Eartha didn't flail. She could set a camera on fire with just her left eyebrow. If you can't attempt her thing, don't do Eartha.

That's very much how I understand Eliot (from the books at least). He makes it very easy for his friends to ignore his emotional spiralling. Quentin kinda notices it, but not in a way that makes him to want to help.

Eh, I'm kinda with Betty on Chi Chi's Eartha. She had charisma and was engaging, but that seemed to me more like how an obnoxious teenager who just found out who Eartha Kitt was two hours ago would do her. The whole cat thing made me cringe.

Bee was on board the "Kasich may not be saying he'll do awful shit on the campaign trail, but he sure got some awful shit done in Ohio!" train long before anyone else picked up on it, and her takedown got a lot of traction. For that and much else, I salute her.

I can't figure anything about Ben's background, but it seems meaningful that he fled to them given the whole image Claire has crafted as a politician. Of course the powerful "family values," tough-on-crime image they projected would seem like the best chance for safety from his abductor to a horribly abused young…

He just doesn't want Josh Hartnett to attack him with a paper cutter again.

And to not have him say the "until I get to know her" thing at all. The latter explanation's good, and made him seem savvy. The first just made him seem like a dolt.

I took it as a mostly cynical spin on the idea of being "chosen by God" for survival. Most of the deus-ex-machina that brought them to the bunker were actually Diana Rigg's machinations, and she's a malevolent force that brought them there to suck them dry no matter how much she says she loves them.

I think it was more to parallel the Church's actions with Gaines's—they did essentially the same thing in that moment.

I had initially hoped all the Defenders shows would be set in the 70's. It was Daredevil's heydey, Luke and Danny lean on 70's cinema genres, and Jessica's brand of feminism could have bounced nicely off that decade as well.

This is also Star Wars, and losing your temper in battle with the villain in Star Wars is a Bad Thing? It was the major way Luke was tempted.

What you said, plus I'd argue they've set up a lot of potential pitfalls for her moving forward. Her cockiness (as you noted), her idolasation of the past (sharing a character trait with Kylo isn't a great sign), and the rage she exhibited during the lightsaber duel could all cause problems for her moving forward.…

Damnit, whoops. My apologies to the detective.