Yeah, I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Jane not to want to mix Rafael's dating life with her family life. Hell, even from his perspective, is whatever spark he has with Catalina really worth the possibility of rocking the stable situation he has going on with Jane and her family, and possibly disrupting…

A big part of the problem is that Rafael is a straight man, someone who reacts to everyone else's nuttiness but doesn't have much of his own. That's a choice by the writers, though - 2.5 seasons in, he still doesn't have much of a personality while pretty much everyone around him (including, as you say, Petra) has…

True, though you have to admit that's not a high bar.

Since I posted about this the other day, it's my sad duty to pass on the news that Scott Erik Kaufman succumbed to his illness yesterday:

Doctor Strange is still playing if you want another opportunity to feel indifferent towards him.

Eh. The last six episodes of the season are a massive improvement on what came before, but that's not saying much considering how low the bar was set. And most of what made those episodes interesting were things that the show simply wasn't interested in exploring in the long run.

It's also worth remembering that the fall of 2013 was when the MCU was about as red-hot as it's ever been (and possibly as it's ever going to get), coming off both Avengers and Iron Man 3. And SHIELD was not only that universe crossing over into TV, but one of the first on-screen superhero shows period (I think it's…

That tends to happen to most superhero shows - they all suffer from the underlying assumption that people who aren't superheroes and situations that don't enable superheroics are boring and beside the point. When really it's the balance between the two that gives the shows weight and significance - we need to know…

Continuing in my journey through Black Mirror, last night I watched the first two episodes of S2. The plan was actually to watch the whole season plus the 2014 Christmas special, but the episodes I watched were so bad that I lost heart. "Be Right Back" had the skeleton of a decent premise (though, as is fairly…

Especially since his day job is actually really important, and a great way to help people. Hell, he's a black man at the head of a major news conglomerate. You don't think he could make a huge difference in that position?

I'm surprised to see so many people discussing the end of the episode as a shock, that is to say as if they think the stabbing actually happened. I took it as a given that it was a fantasy, a traumatic memory of a stabbing that happened in prison (hence Noah experiencing pain in his shoulder throughout the episode). …

This may not be the done thing in these WOT threads, but I hope it's not too out of line.

Not quite clear one how this turkey-lurkey thing works. Is it a majority vote? Because in that case it would obviously make more sense to wait until a lot of people have cast their vote, and then go with whatever's in the lead.

Yeah, I was a little thrown by this episode as well. I've been looking forward to Valencia's return, but that was partly because of what a complicated figure she was last season. What made Valencia hard to pin down was the fact that she was a) an awful person, who b) was completely wrong for Josh, and c) was…

The Supergirl/Flash crossover last year wasn't set up at all, and seemed to exist outside the continuity of both shows (mostly The Flash, since Supergirl was pretty episodic at that point). That would be a taller order with all four shows, but I wouldn't be surprised if continuity with the individual shows'…

Wes killed Sam and shot Annelise, so calling him the moral compass is a bit of a stretch. If this show has a moral compass, it's probably Connor, but he's completely ineffectual and just ends up getting dragged along with the rest of the gang's depravity - which is probably the point.

In this particular case, this wasn't a movie I was interested in seeing anyway, but if anything I've found myself even less inclined after learning that the producers hired Depp after the very well-substantiated allegations of abuse came out. We've just witnessed an admitted serial sexual abuser get elected president…

I find myself feeling really conflicted about this season. In a lot of ways, it's a step forward for AHS - a more coherent story spread out over fewer episodes, with fewer digressions, and very little resorting to grotesquery for its own sake (the increasingly tedious hillbilly plotline notwithstanding, obviously). …

I had completely forgotten about that until the review mentioned it. And when you think of it, it's weird that the canned summary of Lee's life at the beginning of the documentary didn't mention it, since it's another salacious detail in the life of a person that everyone is eager to paint as a villain.

Given the cancellation news this is obviously no longer an issue, but one of the things that have been troubling me is how unbothered Evie is by Xavier's future. Assuming that Evie doesn't believe in the asteroid (and I think she doesn't), isn't she wondering what will happen to Xavier in eight months when he…