Why do you think he doesn't have an appetite for brains? He ate the cheerleader's and his aunt's.

Most of Blaine's victims are homeless youth, so I wonder if they're mostly boys. You make a good point, though.

I felt bad about that too, until Liv reminded us that she's been able to resist eating her friends and family just fine. It must have come from him.

We have seen Liv affecting a false personality without needing a brain (in the video store with the Asian gang), so if it's just a matter of having Rose McIver do character bits for a scene, I'd rather they do it that way.

Do you think it's the channel's emphasis on YA genres? Even Jane the Virgin, which is the closest thing CW has now to a WB-style family drama, plays up the telenovela camp and mystery plots.

100% cosign on the personality transplant deal. It's easily my least favorite part of the show. It's barely cute for a second, and then it's just an obstacle. I like Liv, I want to spend time with Liv, not Liv doing a stereotypical "High school girl" voice.

Argh, that. You know who doesn't change orientation every time she eats a straight man's brain? Liv. (I know there was the artist, but him being a lech was a major part of his character.)

Terrible? I don't know, they were okay. Roberson used them as a platform for his love of retro niche genres (60s girl detectives, 80s cop shows, B-movie horror, etc.), which probably wasn't a great idea, but it's the kind of thing you tolerate in a fan-oriented medium like comic books. You're totally right about the…

Totes. For the most part the show does a great job of hiding the fact that its concept is a bunch of different things (the comic, lighthearted crime procedural, CW teen drama) stitched together, but that's one place where the seams absolutely show.

I think it might be Max Rager, or whoever is behind them, trying to cover their zombie's crime up.

That drummer is too young to have seen either I Know What You Did Last Summer. Orange is the New Black, I believe.

When they pulled the cliffhanger commercial break with Peyton in her apartment with the Max Rager zombie, I knew she was going to be okay. Death comes quick and painful in a show like this (RIP Lowell); they don't telegraph it. I wonder if we'll see her again in the finale, or if they'll leave this to be resolved next…

Welcome back Mrs. Teti! Good to hear what happened and that you're well.

Nah. If we get a Music Meister, a Fiddler, or even a Virtuosa, it'll just be some rando who shoots people as part of a vendetta over a recording contract. The crimes-of-the-week on this show don't have much variety.

I don't think it did. I thought last week's episode raised ethical flags without actually repudiating the way they had handled the Rogues. What did Barry say he learned at the end of the episode? Not to make deals with villains. He didn't learn the value of due process, he didn't learn that caging people indefinitely…

Love this review, but I can't understand the argument that the show has handled the supervillain prison issue "fairly well." I get so mad every time they bring it up. If a guest character was doing was Barry does, they would lock him up.

Any comics readers think the opening paintball scene was going to go in a different direction (like, issue #1 direction?). Anyway, this was a weak case-of-the-week, I thought; but I don't mind when the serialized stuff is so good.

This one was brutal. I don't find Blaine a charming or attractive villain at all, unlike a lot of viewers—but I do find him hella scary. It's that mixture of having built up a whole organization that turns everyone who encounters it into victims/accomplices, and also being an unhinged nutball who will kill anyone who…

Wait there was a Chekov book? I didn't notice that! Love.

I've gone back and watched the first two seasons. I just meant that she wasn't a big deal the first year I watched (a case-of-the-week deus ex machina, I guess), nor in the episodes since.