I also do a weird hand face mask thing! Like my brain goes, "This is embarrassing and awkward and weird and somebody here needs to acknowledge that and act accordingly. Guess it's you!"

I can also see how he would be annoying in real life, but I really like him in this show. He seems to have figured out that he's in a superhero TV show and is A-OK with that, and I like that self-aware humor.

Huh, Me and My Dick is by Team Starkid, who did A Very Potter Musical. That's actually kind of exciting to me!

Yeah, I had to mute the audio and turn on closed captions for all of the Harriet Tubman scenes. Cringe comedy is way more cringe-y than comedy for me.

Interestingly, I had exactly the opposite reaction to this episode as Gwen: I really enjoyed Mindy and Danny's storyline and did not enjoy Peter's. I mean, yes, Ed Weeks's American accent was amazing. But how incredibly stereotypical was that frat? All the jokes felt a bit lazy. Whereas Mindy and Danny's plotline was…

I actually have to disagree with your last sentence — I'm pretty sure Mindy has been an explicitly terrible person from the get-go. I mean, that's what the entire S1 finale was about.

I commented an episode or two ago that I thought something was different this season than in last season. I went back and watched some S1 episodes (oh, what a chore) to try and figure out what. I noticed two things:

You are correct.

I also like that it's Jake crushing on Amy and not the other way around just because "uptight, rule-bound woman who falls for a cool man-child" is one of my least favorite romantic tropes. The way B99 is doing it makes both Jake and Amy seem more mature and more fleshed-out as characters, which is wonderful.

I'm really excited about Diaz being a task force leader. She's so quietly competent and I'm glad that that's being recognized for her in-universe.

While I agree that the show almost seemed to be condoning Michaela's reaction, I do actually think that sharing sexual histories is not a totally unreasonable thing to do, and makes a lot of sense given her life plan (and however homophobic her reactions were, they were clearly grounded in her fear that her plans…

I love-love-loved Oliver and Felicity's earlier dynamic, where she kind of had a crush on him and he was totally focused on other things. It was great! It generated so much comedy! It subverted expectations! I think they could have gotten just as much mileage out of continuing to put in comedic teasers and exchanges…

She does look just like Fitz! I had to pause the episode just to check IMDB and make sure it's not the same actress.

Yes! As soon as I saw the episode description on Hulu ("Detectives Gordon and Bullock track down a vigilante who is killing
corrupt Gotham citizens by attaching them to weather balloons"), I immediately got some popcorn and some pomegranate liqueur and had a great time. I had to pause the episode after the Danish…

I feel the same way, and I can't decide if I just built up season 1 to unreachable heights in my head, or if something is really different this time. I guess I should rewatch S1 and see!

Yeah, I was really taken aback by that line in Sonia's review. Of course Alicia is a feminist! We've seen over and over again that she has liberal, progressive values, and is consistently disgusted with people who don't share those values. I can buy that she would never say that she's a feminist, because she knows…

This is actually currently happening in my family with my parents (who come from two different non-Christian backgrounds) and my sister. My parents are pretty upset about the whole thing. I am too, somewhat — not because of the actual religion, but mostly because my sister doesn't seem to be able to actually discuss…

Wow. This is exactly what I was thinking when I finished reading this article, only less well worded. Reviews like that are why I read the AV Club, and FoC's like this are what frustrate me about it. Thanks for the excerpt!

I loved hearing those negative evaluations of that coder. Repeated lateness? Alcohol on his breath? My software engineer friends routinely show up to work at noon, and if they smelled of alcohol their managers would just ask them to share. Although I suppose missing important meetings is bad, and of course not…

I loved how she called him "sir" in this episode — I'm sure she must say that to everyone to be polite, but I've never noticed it until now, when Panjabi definitely had a different tone of voice and different body language than usual. Kalinda clearly meant it to be deferential, and that more than anything made me…