Hang on, are they playing this straight? I always thought P&Pw/Z sounded like a one-note gag, but this looks like a zombie movie that happens to have P&P characters in it.

Jimmy's "oh, shit" when he realizes he's just directed the wrath of a drunken, barely-holding-it-together Gretchen onto himself was a thing of beauty in an episode overflowing with them. I've been a little on the fence on how the show has shifted to Jimmy and Gretchen as a cohabitating couple this season - there was…

I find it hard to blame Dorothy for behaving that way, because, well, look at the title of the show. These are all objectively horrible people - she's not wrong when she says that Vernon is the only nice one - and they also treat her boyfriend like crap. We know the characters as complex people and are willing to…

If it makes you feel better, Maura Tierny still looks basically the same.

The Lion King joke really worked in the context of the episode - both for its ironic resonance with Gretchen's depression, and for Jimmy's hipsterish certainty that he's on to something authentic and unusual - but it really makes no sense, does it? The characters on this show are all 30ish. That means it would have…

Arguably that's the entire show in a nutshell. Zombies are the quintessential killable villain, completely devoid of humanity and so far beyond help that killing them is considered a mercy. But iZombie turns that on its head, and posits zombies who are as fully human as anyone, and who are only as good or evil as…

But doing drugs? Sleeping with Gilda? Those are both self-destructive, self-loathing acts. Major is behaving like someone in despair over the fact that he can't do anything to get out of his bad situation. If he's really working against Vaughn in secret, I don't think he'd be so despondant.

Someone in the comments pointed out that last season Blaine was keeping some of his henchmen frozen, which kept them alive but in suspended animation. Major could be doing that, which would solve the captivity issue. But then you run into the problem that I don't think Major knew about Blaine's storage method.

The trailer seemed to imply it. Though that would require the film to take a stand over whether she meant to kill herself.

I liked the slow burn of Liv's birthday revelation, and the fact that she was obviously throwing herself into this week's personality as a way of numbing the pain of being alone on this day. But it also felt as if she was being a bit of a martyr. Liv has alienated all the people who knew the significance of this day…

It was horrifying, but I appreciate the show stressing the awfulness of it. As it did last week with the other zombie's children, iZombie never allows us to lose sight of the fact that these are people, and that what Major is doing is horrible. A lot of shows act like having powers or being inhuman in some way makes…

I really wanted to believe that Major was fake-killing the zombies, but it seems really implausible, and doesn't track with his obvious feelings of guilt and self-loathing.

Having sex with Gilda is pretty clearly an act of self-loathing. He knows she's evil and awful, but right now he thinks that's what he deserves.

Hell, the comments on the AV Club Scandal reviews are surprisingly full of Fitz apologists.

Beyond that, and as other people have noted in this thread, it was made at a time when everyone was very wary of the tropes of superheroes - the costumes, the tights, the silly villains - and eager to assure their audience that their show would be realistic and mature. One of the things the MCU has done is prove that…

I think part of the ridiculousness of Iris's reaction is the context. This isn't the first time that Joe has lied to her about something huge. Last year they had a gigantic blow-out over what was, objectively, a much smaller lie. Joe knows that he's lost his gimme and is on his second chance right now. And yet he…

I think it's more of a small budget thing.

Having them not repeat that exact same story beat this time around is good because it allows us to avoid that.

So let me get this straight: after an entire season of Joe treating Iris like a child, lying to her, keeping secrets from her, and making decisions about her personal and romantic life, The Flash's idea of moving forward from this is to reveal that this was all just an encore to the real deal, that Joe has lied to…

My feeling is that Arrow was aware of Smallville's bad reputation, and tried to conceal how much of an influence it was. By the time Flash came around, the showrunners were feeling more secure, and able to acknowledge their debt to Smallville (aside from the examples you mention, the very premise of a…