I couldn't vote 'The 100' for best show and I couldn't vote Arrow in the 'Dead Shenanigans' category. Damn you AVClub, for better or worse, The CW exists!!

Maybe not that far off but Trump takes it to the truly sickening level of basically assuming only whites are Americans. That there can't be such a thing as a Muslim-American or a Hispanic-American and I'm pretty sure he's not really down with African-Americans. To say nothing that he's mixed on whether poverty-level…

Name the last time Congress wasn't completely dysfunctional. Name the last time anyone in the Republican party didn't slide off into extremism/fear to gain political traction. I'm not saying today isn't bad because it's really bad, I'm just trying to find a time where government, on the whole, was actually working for…

Apart from Trump who is basically an evil villain/racist southern governor from the 1950's, it's sort of always been this way. It's just that John Stewart and the like aren't making it as easy to get away with anymore.

Pilgrim ponies fearful of religious persecution.

The Coach/Saracen relationship was my world. He was the back-up player, the second choice, the guy dating his daughter, the guy having sex with his daughter. But when push came to shove, you could see the love Coach had for him. All the feels.

Him apologizing about not liking when the vegetables touch still breaks me. You just want to fix it for him. It's too real. Ugh, this episode kills me.

Yeah agreed - there's not much off that album that couldn't make it. 'Johnny Delusional' was just the first song I heard and thus the song that let me know "Franz Ferdinand and Sparks are back and everything is alright with the world.."

Songs:
Lianne La Havas - Green & Gold
FFS - Johnny Delusional
River City Extension - Indian Summer
Sylvan Esso - Jamie's Song
Beach House - Somewhere Tonight
Alexander Hamilton (from the Soundtrack)
Dead Weather - Mile Markers

Yeah we're all forgetting the most important bit in the newswire — Bryan Cranston is in this. Well done Bryan Cranston. Well done Wes Anderson.

I just need Zach Gilford to become a huge star and do amazing things. It's Matt Saracen. He WAS the episode 'The Son.' I just … I need him and Michael K. Williams (Omar on "The Wire") to be big. Even if they were in Purge: Anarchy and that was legitimately good, I need more from them. For acting's sake.

How is Laurel important plot-wise? I got it when Sara was around but I'm struggling to figure out how she's relevant now. What am I missing??

No agreed, totally. It was as out of character for him as it was her. The whole thing, like Holy Smoaks has pointed out, is just a force-fight. It's Soap Opera 01 (I'm not even going to give it the 101 that indicates an upper-level class — this is the Intro Class that 187 constantly-hungover freshman take thinking…

Zero carefactor is right. That's my new term for this. The 'zero carefactor' storyline. ;)

I'm not sure if Barry knew the fight was about the secret-keeping or about the kid. If he thought it was was about the kid, maybe I see his point (and I do love that Barry is capable of terrible decision making, like the worst thing that happens in season 1 was his fault). However I still reject the notion that the…

They made Oliver more afraid of Samantha than Vandal Savage. Savage immediately lost relevancy for me after that.

What's amazing in its idiocy is that they made Samantha a better villain than Vandal Savage because she's the one who manages to take down Oliver which takes down Central City.

It made Barry look pretty terrible as well.

There was a weird undercurrent in the episode that Felicity could not be trusted from both Barry and Oliver that was essentially truth-fridging her and returning her back to the love interest trope that's killed Laurel, Iris, Felicity, etc. Seriously Barry goes back in time and they don't even bother to talk with her…

Bloviating. Nice. You win vocabulary for the day.