There's a whole subplot in Luke Cage about how the bullets powerful enough to penetrate Luke's skin are horrifically expensive (because they're made of alien metal). And yet by the end of the season, the NYPD have been equipped with them. So this strikes me as more of a plot contrivance than anything else.

Yes, but the pilot is what's trying to sell me on the show, and it thinks that "wants to lose weight" is enough characterization for her.

Hell, if Scarlett Johansson can't get a movie deal out of Marvel, then Hayley Atwell almost certainly isn't going to.

The thing everyone forgets is that once you start talking about the founding of SHIELD, you have to acknowledge the fact that Peggy Carter either oversaw or tacitly allowed the recruitment of Hydra agents, and thus enabled Hydra's infestation of SHIELD. Which makes her indirectly responsible for much of the carnage…

True, and it's not surprising that the people involved at the time didn't realize that the ground was shifting under their feet (the fact that they still hadn't gotten the memo by the time it came to marrying Charles off in 1980 is less forgivable). But the audience knows better, so it seems like a hard - if not…

Oh, man. Bad enough that this destroys my cancellation league ballot, but it was such a terrible pilot. As I said elsewhere, this show is a bad writer's idea of what good writing looks like.

Actually, having seen Chris Sullivan just recently in both The Knick and Stranger Things, I'm almost certain that he's wearing a fat suit in the pilot - either that or being shot in a way that makes him look a lot bigger than he actually is. Not that he's slim, but he's not as fat as that.

The entire plotline about the fat character is awful. I mean, this is US network TV, so I'm not so naive as to think that a fat character will show up for any reason except to have a weight-loss storyline. But this person genuinely has nothing going on in her life except being miserable about how fat she is - no…

The only part of the soundtrack I've noticed is the title music, a choral piece that also repeats at important moments during the episodes. I don't know if I'd call it sinister - more reaching for a profundity it can't quite earn.

Yes, but she was ten when Edward VIII abdicated, and 26 when her father died, so it can't have come as that much of a shock (except in the sense that he died rather young).

I don't know what was in the water this year, but this is 2016's second sumptuous historical drama about a reigning English queen. And yet neither of them are about Elizabeth I, the queen who actually did stuff. ITV's Victoria honestly feels like a stealth argument for the abolition of the monarchy, because it…

I suspect the issue is more that when you're famous, rich, and beautiful, the opportunities to stray are much more common, and eventually most people screw up.

He hasn't been hired to play Chris Pratt since his movie star phase started, post-Guardians. As for Passengers, the trailer suggests he'll be playing the same constipated asshole he played in Jurassic World, and what I've heard about the leaked script doesn't dispel that impression.

At least they managed to spend an hour together without ending up at each other's throats over an issue that could have been cleared up much more easily by simply using their words.

So… a general strike?

Wait, how are we defining millennials this time? The youngest eligible voters in 2016 would have been 2 in 2000. But last I checked, the moving target that is the millennial cohort consists of all the people born in or after 1981, so the oldest of them would actually have been 19 in 2000, and eligible to vote.

That may be true, but he'd still have to get the nomination, and I think that would be too much of a hurdle.

Yeah, if I had to choose which show had a worse sophomore season, UnREAL or Mr. Robot, it would be a pretty tough race, but I think Mr. Robot would take it. Though admittedly, I liked UnREAL a lot more last year as well.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that the leads remained likable - in fact another problem I didn't mention was how the season turned Quinn into a shrieking harpy, at a level that felt well beyond what she was last year. And beyond that, the way the ending tries to argue that Rachel's bringing Darius and Ruby…

Fall has officially started, which means I was a little late this weekend with finishing my summer TV catch-up, but I did finally get to the end! Left for last was the second season of UnREAL, which I'd been dreading because the reviews were pretty bad. And yes, it was a serious step down from the magnificent S1,…