The sense I've gotten is that Black-ish is only moderately successful, and gets a boost in the survivability rankings because it's such a zeitgeist show (the same, though to a lesser extent, seems to be true of Fresh Off the Boat). At any rate, ABC is clearly doing better with comedies than with dramas, but it's…

Which makes no sense since they didn't end up modifying their machine (and would have had no way to do so anyway - even if Folsom made alterations, how would they know about it?). All they needed was the original key for the encryption calculation, which they got from the window blinds. They could have used the…

Yeah, the idea that Sherlock is experiencing fugue states where he's sending texts without any memory of it is such a huge deal that to introduce is as a minor subplot one episode before the end of the season feels almost insulting. And as you say, the odds that this will be handled with the seriousness that such a…

That's what you get when, barring Modern Family you haven't got a single successful show that isn't by Shonda Rhimes. And even her stuff is getting a little wobbly. Hell, if Conviction had had a slightly stronger start to its season, it'd probably getting a second one right now, because it's either that or nuke the…

So, not only was Other Space axed, but instead of a space comedy where everyone is happily bisexual, and things like questioning gender roles and enthusiastic consent are treated as something to laugh with, not at, we're getting a space comedy about a guy pissed off at his ex-wife? Yay.

Like Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe deserves better than to have Agents of SHIELD in the headline of his obituary. That said, we might want to look into the possibility of a curse of Grant Ward, because both of the actors who played his mentors on that show have died suddenly in the space of a few months.

Sherlock would have killed Moran if he hadn't been turned on to Moriarty, and what Kitty did was arguably worse (and frankly, likely to cause death in the long term). Either way, neither of them get to look down on a murderer who has actually done time and tried to make amends for his crime, and Sherlock acting as if…

I'm pretty sure that's only the title for the American market, too. I've seen it called simply Anne elsewhere.

I'm pretty sure I've lost points since last week, and yet I seem to be at least five places higher in the rankings. So I guess I'm not as bad off as everyone else?

I feel like this episode missed a trick by not drawing a connection between the narcissistic brain Liv was on and Blaine's behavior. Blaine is obviously smarter than Yvonne, more methodical and thought out in how he manipulates and damages people. But bottom line, their toxicity both comes down to the same thing, an…

That was my first thought, but the problem with it is that it's not actually evil? As long as he's not creating new zombies (which he anyway doesn't have the means to do), then selling his customers an extra buzz is probably not even illegal, much less bad. So I'm guessing there's going to be more to it than that.

I saw that as a direct response to the story he was trying to sell her. His narrative is that he really did lose his memory and this caused him to take a hard look at his life, and that when he regained his memories he made a conscious choice to continue being the different person he was as an amnesiac. Which is…

I would have been fine with Jane and Rafael as endgame a few episodes ago, but now that they've reopened the possibility of Rafael/Petra, I'm all in the tank for that. Not so much because I'm such a huge fan of that ship, but because I want Petra to be happy, and I doubt that Chuck is her happily ever after.

Surely Petra is Miranda: cynical, pragmatic, knows how to get things done, and tends to be blindsided by her own emotions.

For the record, I totally support bringing Lito over to Arrow. I imagine he'd massively improve most shows I'm watching.

So I guess the show is just going to pretend that the thing where there were actually three survivors on the lifeboat that Oliver escaped on, and Robert Queen murdered an innocent man before killing himself to give Oliver a better chance to survive, never happened? I mean, even without that, Oliver's "I knew my…

That's funny: I didn't ask for any information, and in fact I think in the comment being responded to, I made it clear that I knew this information already. So I'm going to stick to my interpretation that this had nothing to do with "educating" people about the facts, and everything to do with derailing.

I did think they were the same person, yes. But honestly, I think my reaction still fits. If you see someone doing the "but black people sold the slaves!" dance in response to a discussion of slavery, and your reaction to people rightly castigating them is to go "well, actually…" with a thousand-word lecture, then…

Any sense of how many episodes SHIELD is coming back for? Because I've been assuming that it would be renewed for a shortened season - possibly a midseason replacement after Inhumans wraps up in the fall. And that would be a way to cut the budget without losing any of the cast.

I'm sorry for Timeless. I wasn't watching anymore, but it was OK for what it was, and cancelling it in this day and age feels unnecessarily harsh - I figured it would be dead after two seasons, but not one-and-done.