It really fuckin' is.

As mentioned below, it looks like that was because they weren't tagged as part of the "TV" section, which has to be done manually. You can tell it didn't happen if a WOT is missing that "TV Club" logo up at the top.

I kinda have to make some pretense of rotating the Top Pick choices so that it's not Frontline every single week. I mean, I guess I don't have to, but I feel some vague sense of obligation that I probably ought to.

It looks like the last two WOTs weren't tagged as being in the "TV" section. You can tell when they're missing the "TV Club" logo next to the "What's On Tonight" category heading.

It's possible you're seeing the gap between when the different pages refresh their content. I think the author pages, TV Club main page, and specific WOT section pages all display new content as soon as they post (1 a.m. central), but there can be a bit of a lag with the main page of about 2-5 minutes.

Sigh, the one time I don't pay attention during the closing credits…

I'd argue pretty hard that "Hawk And Chick" and "The Oeder Games" are a tossup, with "Hawk And Chick" just coming out ahead.

You stupid idiot!

Yeah, that line was perfect.

I dunno, I still kinda wanted to see Jericho played by Chris Jericho. But yeah, Paul Rudd is pretty okay.

It's not like I don't want to…

Dammit, why didn't I double-check that? Very dumb of me. I'll go fix it.

I don't know, I tend to think that, unless you're releasing all at once a la Netflix, the existence of DVR/binging doesn't abdicate shows of making episodes work as individual units of storytelling. The challenge of making both episodic and season-long stories work can explain why certain things don't work, but maybe…

Eh, that sounds true of season one Oliver, not so much season four Oliver.

I don't think we necessarily disagree. I said that I'm fine with the nuke going off, and I actually kinda agree that I like the audacity of actually going through with it. My issue isn't with the idea, but with the execution, which felt rushed.

I dunno, a secret nuke in the 1970s wouldn't be much different from real-world nuke tests in the 1950s. The game-changing thing is the instant death of tens of thousands, and I don't think that would be much different from our world in terms of impact.

I get why, in-universe, John and Oliver didn't know. It's more that, from an out-of-universe perspective, their not knowing makes the nuke look weak, and that nuke needed to look really, really strong. (May have slipped back into wrestling speak.)

My point isn't about the impact going forward, but rather making sure the episode gives the nuke sufficient space as it happens for it to register properly with the audience. This is a critique of short-term storytelling rather than the long-term, which you're right when you say we can't judge it yet.

Not really, because my point is more that they needed to give the nuke more time in the actual moment of detonation for the impact to really sink in. They rushed the immediate moment, undercutting what had happened. The show can do interesting things to address the nuke going forward, but that specific moment can't be…

I kinda hope we're nearing this point of no return where Malcolm declares Thea an enemy and gives up the last shred of his humanity, but I could also see the show stringing this out indefinitely.