Don't forget participating in Rose's plot to conceal her identity. Luisa didn't just stay with the woman who murdered her father, etc. She deceived her brother into letting that woman back into his life. Hell, if she'd gotten her own way, Rose would have been in contact with Mateo and the girls.

What I really liked about this episode: the way it handled Kara's choice to sacrifice her relationship with Mon-El and the aftermath of its departure. There's a tendency in superhero stories, and particularly those with heroines, to treat throwing tragedy at the protagonist so that they can wallow in angst and misery…

Another way of looking at it is that we tend to demand perfection from women where we hardly ever do from men. And we use their flaws and failings to dismiss the good that they do. So while I agree that applauding Polansky is something that should follow Streep, I'm not inclined to say that it makes her commitment…

In fairness, a lot of people gave him a standing ovation that night. That was at the point where the narrative of "he's only guilty of having consensual sex with a minor and he's been victimized by a puritanical court system" was pretty much unchallenged. You could argue that Streep, having been in that world for…

I mean, we are talking about the early 20th century and a woman who probably didn't have much in the way of education. A lot of people have trouble believing things that contradict the evidence of their own eyes - in this case, the fact that Mallon never got sick herself - and if you add to that the obvious…

My assumption when hearing about this was that, like the Champs Elysees shooting a few weeks ago, this was directly linked to the coming election in the UK, attempting to sway it towards right-wing governments that tend to enact Islamophobic policies, which furthers ISIS's narrative of a civilizational war. France…

Yes, but securing a stadium or a performance venue from a bomb attack (as opposed to a shooting attack like the one in Paris) is actually a lot easier than most other types of terrorism. I don't know how common bag checks and metal detectors are in the UK, but it's a fairly simple tactic that would have, if not…

When Obama visited the wall before his election, the note he left there was retrieved and publicized (something harmless about wanting peace for everyone, as I recall). There was some outrage before it was revealed that it was his campaign's doing, not a reporter who went grubbing through the notes. I'm now terribly…

Did anyone else assume, before we saw the MRI machine, that Sherlock was checking himself into a psychiatric ward? Maybe my mind only went that way because that was how a very similar storyline on House played out, but I was honestly surprised to see that we're meant to think Sherlock's problems are neurological.

I'm choosing to believe that the producers either knew or at least strongly suspected that they were getting another season, because ending on this note would have been cruel. Not just the concern for Sherlock's wellbeing, but the breakdown of the partnership that has been this show's heart almost from day one.

I was wondering if his condition might be linked to the beating (which would also explain why it was revisited in the previouslys). My main concern in that case is that it would put Joan even more strongly in the wrong - she castigates Sherlock for not being able to "get over" what Shinwell did to him, but if the…

Someone in the production must have been either very confident that they'd be renewed, or they had a head's up, because they ended the season on a cliffhanger that would have been absolutely brutal as a series-ender.

As some of you probably remember, the CW released short epilogues to the two shows it actually cancelled this year, Frequency and No Tomorrow. I didn't watch Frequency, but NT was a fun and often surprisingly clever. The epilogue is really just a bunch of end credits tacked on to the final episode (which, honestly,…

If Peggy Carter ever joins the AoS team, she had damn well better be leading it.

Well, it's not as if we don't know pretty much exactly how things shake out for Peggy.

And, as people have been pointing out a lot recently, the charity work she did was not safe and uncontroversial. She met with AIDS patients when the disease was still a serious taboo, and campaigned against land mines, which is the sort of thing that makes a lot of countries shuffle their feet.

I'm thinking that Piven show is probably safe to begin with because of the murder mystery angle. Like most high-concept soaps, it will no doubt crash and burn soon after, but not before getting at least a full-season order. I may change my mind after seeing the trailer, but that's my thinking right now.

True, but there's a slight difference between "we're going to prevent you from going communist by showering you with money" and "we're going to prevent you from going communist by assassinating your democratically elected leaders and replacing them with puppet dictators".

It is now, but during the Cold War the US was meddling in Africa quite a lot. Pretty much every country there that broke away from colonialism started flirting with socialism if not outright communism, and you know we can't have that.

This weekend, on catching up on TV that I've had banked up forever!