I have to wonder if people complaining about how full of new subplots this season is were watching the last three. Banshee's always been extremely aggressively paced, spinning up and juggling tons of plots, resolving some faster than you might expect, pulling others out the whole season. This one is, if anything, a…

I might have thought that the guy was doing it behind his wife's back except she specifically tells him to go get things ready while she clears up right before he goes down there and reveals the tied up girl. There was no way that wasn't what she meant. The coven I wasn't expecting.

Here's the thing: I bet you're far from the only one who's annoyed by the rude person. And it's probably against the rules (I know you're supposed to use headphones on public transit around here). But someone who doesn't give a fuck about annoying everyone else on the bus or train with their music/video/game is quite…

I actually don't think that's the conclusion she reaches. She's just fed up with Matt keeping all these secrets from her, and there's really no innocent explanation for what she walked in on. "Hi, I am keeping this random woman you've never met in my bed to recuperate from life-threatening injuries instead of getting…

Yep. One of the bigger missteps in the show's adaptation.

In what universe is the asylum episode (Taylor Swift revue aside) one of the strongest episodes? It was enormously wheelspinny, eyerollingly invoked one of the worst cliches in television, and almost made me give up on the whole thing. It's not a complete loss, but…ugh.

They were actual (and not very bright) giant rams. I also thought that change was rather lame.

They've actually made Quentin way more of a chosen one figure in the show than he is in the books, although he's certainly more central to them insofar as he's the first person viewpoint for the whole first book and much of the latter two. The time-loop stuff with the Watcherwoman isn't a complete invention of the…

Is this show actually worth watching? It looks so…generic and painfully bland, but I'm kind of a sucker for urban fantasy type stuff and there are shows that I wouldn't have expected to be good that turned out to be brilliant (or at least really watchable). Banshee, for an example of the former. American Horror Story…

I don't know why 300 got any more positive a reception than those other movies. It's pretty terrible.

It regularly impresses me how artfully shot and composed this show is. Consider for example the shot of Carrie hearing Hood pull up as we see it on the security monitor to one side of her.

I bet we're going to meet him this season, though. Probably shortly before Calvin kills him in some extended and extremely violent fashion.

I really hope they were going somewhere with that because ominous foreshadowing then oh actually it all worked out great offscreen, totally best possible result, religion is the answer to all your problems…well, that would be a cop out of the highest order. Either it was, against all odds, actually everything that was…

There's plenty of character development in this episode, so that criticism seems real weird to me. Bits of it seem a bit forced (like Penny apparently taking the teacher's advice about friends to heart despite it being out of character for him up to that point) and the plot development is certainly rushed and a bit…

Reliably and reproducibly using battle magic, as they require here, requires calm and perfect control. As Kady says, otherwise it comes erratically in bursts, presumably in times of extreme emotion/pain. Ala Eliot with Mike.

Yeah, that's the thing. Eliot and Margo are arch and snide and affectedly detached as a mannerism but they're that way with one another, too. That doesn't mean they don't care or that they aren't genuinely friends with Quentin and Alice, because they do and are, and it kind of leaks out around the edges. Maybe less so…

I still prefer the book and am mildly disappointed by the liberties being taken, but episodes like this one go a long way to establishing the show as enjoyable in its own right. Also I love Eliot so much, holy shit. It's not really an original characterization but the actor just absolutely nails every moment he's on…

It bugs me that we've apparently completely ditched two of the four Chatwins for the show. I get that books don't have to be as economical as shows with characters, but a) the two other Chatwins do play important roles in the later books, b) it's not much of a Narnia parallel with just two siblings, and c) there are…

Eliot doesn't even know why they're going to England when he invites himself along. It's not about getting revenge on The Beast, at least initially. It's distracting himself from the emotional pain he's in.

Why do you think Eliot's bi? Unless I've really missed something, he's pretty flamingly gay. Yes, he's best buds with Margo but that's not a sex thing.