It's interesting that so many people find Chastain's monstrous turn at the end of the film a delight, whereas I thought it was a disappointing flattening of a fascinating villain. It's clear from the get-go that she's the person with power in her relationship with Thomas, and she makes it clear from the moment Edith…

Oh, really? I was kind of annoyed by the end of the episode, mainly because I don't want Dwight to have more unhappiness in his life (and I have the sneaking suspicion that the show thinks Nathan deserves happiness more than Dwight, which is insane troll logic - see also Duke and his own dead girlfriend story). But…

I've been running down the characters we've seen, trying to think of one who would work as Claire's baby-daddy. So far, no one jumps out. It's possible, of course, that he wasn't in the picture, but this is Heroes, so there's no way he's not going to end up being important.

Is it really that different, though? The episode really did seem to be trying to say that the reason Claire couldn't come back to life is that dying in childbirth is somehow fundamentally different from any other kind of death. It all seems to come from the same place, of viewing childbirth as something weird and…

Is the show ever planning to come back to the fact that Frank killed Lila? It's getting kind of weird how cozy he and Laurel are getting - an in a way that I think we're meant to find cute - while he goes around murdering and disposing of other women's bodies.

I like Annelise, but I think the show has made it clear that while she wants to think of herself as a badass who bakes peach cobbler, what she actually is is an obsessive problem-solver with no boundaries and no red lines, whose meddling in people's lives only rarely has positive results. How much of the carnage on…

I don't doubt that the choice to make both characters black was made with the motives you cite in mind, but that's just an indication of how unequipped this show is to deal with racial issues with any subtlety or nuance. The writers are probably patting themselves on the back for making the disadvantaged kid the good…

It matters because there's a long, storied history of white scientists using black bodies for experiments without consent that this episode clearly doesn't realize that it's recalling. And it matters because the episode pits the two characters against each other - the good black guy, who needs our heroes to talk down…

She did, but I assumed that was because of the risk of accidentally scratching someone during sex. It's possible that Liv just doesn't know what would happen.

Don't forget the makeup and prosthetics which would have obscured his entire face, making it impossible for him to do anything resembling acting.

You could probably replace "chef" and "cook" with any other profession and it would still be true. Packing up the "jerk who gets results" trope would be an unalloyed good in my book.

I would address it by writing both characters as people, not walking stereotypes. Oh, and maybe having Jax point out how weird and borderline offensive it is for a bunch of white people to steal his blood, talk down to him about his lack of education, and lecture him about making something of himself.

I really appreciated the heartfelt and drama-free reunion between Liv and Peyton in this episode. We go on a lot about how much Liv has screwed up in handling her condition, and there is a lot to hold against her. But as both Peyton and later Liv herself said, she didn't ask for this to happen to her, and most of…

Has it ever been established that zobmieism is sexually transmitted? We've seen people get infected from scratches and from ingesting zombie blood, but do we know that other bodily fluids transmit the condition?

I definitely assumed that these people were turned by Blaine - especially since I don't think we've seen any other zombie survivors of the boat party, so he and Liv are the only vectors for infection. The fact that the first victim was clearly rich and had access to the kind of cosmetic options that Blaine was using…

The show compares them with one another for every second that they're on screen. And the show chose to cast two black men and have them embody two very obvious stereotypes. Didn't you notice Jax's accent (which is a put-on, by the way, the actor it British)? I'm not shifting the goalposts. I'm pointing out what…

There were two black characters in the Firestorm subplot, and the way the episode contrasts their education and class presentation is glaring. I even think the writers thought they were being progressive - "see, the educated, well-spoken one is the bad guy!" - but that only goes to show how limited their thinking is.

This week, on "The Flash turned into a hardcore fascism show so gradually I didn't even notice": Barry steals the blood of two black men so that he can perform lab tests on it without their knowledge or consent. One of those black men is educated and pleased with his own intelligence. The other is poor and has no…

Fringe's approach to this device was surprisingly elegant (and, I suspect, cheap).

Plus, in general I think we've learned by now that Ford's advice is always wrong. Whatever he tells you to do, do the opposite.