I'd say that Arrow is serialized. The Flash still sticks to the metahuman-of-the-week format, with occasional movement on the season-long arc, and every now and then episodes (such as the recent Earth-2 two-parter) that are solely dedicated to it. My sense was that AoS leaned more towards the Arrow end of the scale.

That's interesting, considering that I'd always gotten the sense that AoS was a lot more serialized - certainly more than The Flash. Perhaps the fact that the Arrowverse shows are part of a block, whereas AoS is on its own, plays into it.

As opposed to the thoroughly justified loathing for his jerkish behavior towards Kara during the first half of the season? I'm hoping that the baby steps in the right direction the last few episodes mean that the show is done with all that - and even more than that, that the writers realize that when a girl says to…

As an Israeli, I object to your insinuation that my prime minister has gravitas.

She's been playing a space diplomat from the future on The Expanse just recently, which gives you a sense of the kind of bold casting you can expect from this franchise.

It was made by people who don't understand Star Trek, and don't like what they do understand about it.

The Force Awakens's saving grace is that it has really likable characters played by extremely winning actors. That's going to keep it in circulation for a while, though a lot of that will depend on how the sequels build on the characters' relationships and stories.

Which means, among other things, that Beyond is the only Star Trek we're going to get for the 50th anniversary year.

When you say that numbers tend to slip in the spring, do you mean in general or just in the case of this show? Because AoS's whole schtick is that it coasts off the spring MCU movie, using it to drive the last half-dozen episodes of the season, so it would be interesting if its ratings actually got weaker around the…

AoS also did a 1.1 despite being the only new scripted show in the time slot on the networks

Clearly, it was a smart move to start watching more and more CW shows (also, they're pretty good, and in some cases genuinely great). I've sort of gotten out of the habit of worrying about the fate of my favorite shows - right now the only ones I'm concerned about are Galavant and Agent Carter (more than concerned in…

I'd settle for just coming up with a better villain and central storyline. I like most of the LoT characters, but dear lord, Vandal Savage is boring and unthreatening.

The problem with The Hound of the Baskervilles is that, as much as it's an iconic Holmes story, it's also highly unrepresentative in several ways that make it hard to adapt, much less as part of a weekly procedural. It separates Holmes and Watson and keeps Holmes offscreen for most of the story. It takes place…

The point Genevieve is making is that the show has created a well thought-out, complicated backstory for Sherlock that it keeps returning to and building upon. And at the same time its approach with Joan is to keep dropping random character details about her into the story and then never mentioning them again. So…

One of the things that no one ever says about mind palaces is that they were a technique invented at a time when it was less common to have a lot of information at your fingertips, much less easily searchable online resources. I find it hard to believe that actual mind palaces were really the kind of…

I'm pretty happy to see the other guests as dirtbags. With the possible exception of the landlady (who was coerced by her husband) and Blore (who felt guilt about what he did), I'm not bothered by any of their deaths. But the killer is also a bastard, and get exactly what they want.

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It felt like this adaptation was trying to lean very hard into the crimes of Empire and of a restrictive, patriarchal society. The details of Lombard's crime were changed as well - in the original book he abandons a troupe of "Native" soldiers, taking their food and water, but in this version he's a mercenary killing…

Maybe, but given this show's track record with Rafael's family, it's hard to imagine that the brother won't turn out to be bad news (I mean, the fact that his ex wouldn't even talk to Rafael about him isn't promising).

Oh, I don't know. Fathers die all the time. Everyone keeps assuming that Michael's for the grave, but I think killing Rafael might actually make more sense.