Fair enough. Personally, I don't, but I certainly want to more than I want to forgive Danny.

I'd say it's very good writing for the kind of person Joy is: someone who wants to think of herself as an innocent and has a lot of people in her life who are willing to enable that thinking. She knows her father killed Lawrence, but she has enough deniability that she can continue to enjoy what that murder has won…

I'd say it's a case of the show not realizing just how unsympathetic they're making their hero look, and thus the degree of criticism he takes (coupled with our genre-savvy knowledge that the people passing that criticism will inevitably be revealed as villains) simply isn't sufficient to his actual failings. As you…

I mean, it's not the only thing about Colleen's story that stops making sense in the wake of this revelation. The entire cage fighting subplot becomes ridiculous once you realize that she had access to Bakuto's resources - that her job, in fact, was to be his recruiter, so he'd have motivation to not only fund her…

What bothered me about that scene at the end of the season is that Davos actually has completely defensible, non-evil reasons to want Danny dead. If the Iron Fist is the defender of K'un-Lun, and there can only be one at a time, and Danny refuses to fulfill his role, then killing him is the only reasonable course of…

And either way, we've seen so little of K'un-Lun that there's simply no way to make an informed judgment.

Yeah, this is a big part of why Colleen feels like a wasted character in the later parts of the season, and why the whole "IF is about cults" idea, while obviously the direction the show was trending towards, ends up falling flat. Because there's never any question that Colleen is wrong and Danny is right, and that…

I find myself really bothered by the fact that the Hand is apparently Communist Hydra. Mainly because it feels like what the MCU always wanted Hydra to be - aside from using cartoon Nazis as punching bags, the MCU has always been more sympathetic to fascist, might-is-right politics (one might argue that this is a…

I have to say, if I was going to pick a standout episode of this season, it would not be episode 10, AKA The One With All the Exposition in the Cult Compound. I mean, I agree that it's important to reveal how badly Danny failed as Iron Fist - and in particular, I agree that this is something we should have learned…

No, you just keep bugging me about a show that I've repeatedly said I don't want to watch.

Have you seen this trope in any current TV shows? Because it was fairly common when I was growing up, when it was taken as a given that you'd hide adoption from your child, but I can't recall the last time I saw it. Which seems related to the growing awareness that lying to your child about such a fundamental fact…

The CW is remaking Dynasty - a show that seems massively far outside their target audience - and yet the description focuses on Fallon and Crystal, not Alexis? Do these people have any idea what the point of Dynasty was?

You get that that's what I mean by "I keep hearing that", right? And then, as I said, I read up on what's happening, and it still sounds bad.

Eh. I keep hearing that, and then I read up on what's happening and it sounds like the same sucky show it always was. Plus, most of what it's been praised for has been continuing arcs. Standalone episodes still don't seem like something the show is interested in.

There's also the fact that I think Harold does genuinely love Ward, even if he ultimately loves himself more. Rewatching the scene just now, I was struck by his recollection of holding Ward as a baby and telling himself "he'll only get the best parts of me, not the broken bits." You can imagine that Ward will one…

To me, the strongest similarity between Iron Fist and Buck's time running Dexter is the sense that the hero is beyond criticism, even when their behavior is selfish, entitled, or just plain stupid. This got particularly bad on Dexter as he continually destroyed the lives of everyone in his orbit, including his…

What makes me especially sad is that these were episodes where you'd expect Colleen to shine. Instead, she gets sucked into Danny's drama, and the story becomes about whether he can trust her, not whether she can break free of the indoctrination she's been living with since childhood. For the show to give such a…

Obviously the solution to this problem was to shuffle Ward off-screen for the next two episodes, and concentrate all the thematic weight on Danny's juvenile angst.

I think this is an interesting episode for Ward's evolution as a person. On the one hand, as you say, he doesn't allow Harold to gaslight him or try to guilt him over his actions in the past. He makes it clear that he considers Harold a monster and wants nothing to do with him. The only weapon Harold has against…

I would love a Marvel show that can do decent cases of the week, and Jessica Jones is obviously a premise that could work that in very well. But I'm struggling to think of a single superhero show currently screening that manages it, and doesn't treat standalone episodes as anything more than filler. (iZombie is…