I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that Stephen Amell wanted to cut down on those scenes. Apparently, even for actors who work out regularly, shirtless scenes - and the super-defined physique we've come to expect in them - require special preparation, dieting for several days ahead of time, and, of…

If you'd seen some of the things the Daily Mail has written about her, you'd realize she's nowhere near white as far as they're concerned.

Pretty sure she's biracial. Her character on the show has a black father and white mother, and I think that reflects the actress's own background.

In totally non-election-related news, apparently Prince Harry is dating Meghan Markle, AKA Rachel from Suits, and the British tabloids have been giving her hell. Now he's come out with a pretty barnstorming statement, including accusing the tabloids of racism:

I would say, because royalty is the distillation of the concept that some people are just inherently more interesting and worth talking about than others, for no reason except the accident of their birth. I mean, obviously Mad Men is about privileged white people, but those people were also good at something. I'm…

It means Margaret would have become queen, which, given how her life turned out, she probably wasn't emotionally equipped for.

The version of "Diamonds" that I know best is from Moulin Rouge, and since the character singing there is a prostitute, there's very little question about the transactional nature of the song. But the lyrics themselves are pretty explicit: "get that ice or else no dice", "that's when those louses go back to their…

I think Paula has almost got to be thinking of doing law school at night, or at best part-time. There's no way her family can afford to lose her income at the same time that they take on the added burden of her tuition.

Pretty sure that for a woman who has had two babies, an abortion is far from terrifying.

Glad to hear that Valencia is coming back. S1 had a tough balancing act with her - she's a genuinely awful person who is also clearly the victim of both Rebecca and Josh's shenanigans - and though I thought it mostly threaded the needle, in the end she never really got her own point of view. It hasn't really sat…

The fact that the word abortion wasn't even mentioned in the episode felt pretty strange, especially coming a week after Jane the Virgin had a character who very casually went to the doctor and got a pill. If JtV can treat abortion as such a matter-of-course procedure, there's truly no justification for Crazy…

Counterpoint: nothing made me happier than to see Negga spread her wings and leave SHIELD behind as it so richly deserved to be left. The show never deserved a performer of her caliber, and never knew what to do with her - including the inconvenient fact that she hopelessly outclassed all of her main cast scene…

Claire Foy has been great in literally every single thing I've seen her in. Most recently that was Wolf Hall, but she was also fantastic in the TV movie version of Sarah Waters's The Night Watch, as the lead in Little Dorrit, and of course, as Adora Belle Dearheart in Going Postal.

Did anyone else think that Fern came off as a pretty messed-up person, and not worthy of Evie's attempts to make amends? It's perfectly reasonable for her not to be willing to forgive Evie, and to point out that an apology doesn't make up for what she went through. But in between those two points, she does her level…

I'm actually not sure this works for UnREAL, since the premise is that Everlasting is an expression of Quinn's toxic ideas about romance - and more importantly, about what people (women) want from romance. Her format doesn't feel as if it expands to the Bachelorette model, because she's all about the degradation and…

What about those of us who picked Timeless to get a full season order this week on Sunday's bonus question? I'm obviously biased, but I think this should count.

The Force Awakens has problems with its characterization all around, and the fact that everyone focuses on Rey strikes me as the more obvious proof of sexism, rather than the whole Mary Sue debate. Yes, Rey is at times too competent, but frankly that issue pales next to the ease with which Finn breaks free of his…

I think a crucial difference between Rose and Petra is that Petra is actually trying to change and get better, including getting away from various toxic people in her life, and forging relationships with people, like Jane, who are good for her. It's very much a stop-and-start process, but it's happening. Rose,…

Also, "kidnapped my nephew" and "shot my nephew's stepfather while my nephew's mother was in the next room." It honestly boggles my mind that we're meant to think there's even a question about whether Luisa can forgive Rose, and the fact that Rafael is constantly expected to forgive her is absurd.

Something that occurred to me in this episode, when Luisa threw Rose's crimes in her face and the only one that seemed to bother her was the murder of her father, is that she seems to have no relationship with her nephew and nieces. Not that everyone needs to be a devoted aunt, but I'm not even sure we've ever seen…