"Talk about a spoon full of shit," Andrews continued.

MAJOR SPOILER: It turns out the cat from The Night of was "A" all along.

If the current show was a CSI-like procedural, there'd be a murder mystery every episode but they'd find a way to keep endlessly delaying the solutions for weeks and weeks and weeks and even season after season.

I'm glad the cat got away with it, but I'm sorry we won't get to stick around and see the cat take down all of the other characters, Agatha Christie's "And Then There Was None" style.

And their meddling neighbor, Edward James Olmos.

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop Dave? Stop, Dave.

Have you seen the movie Deliverance?

I hate linguists. They're always telling me to watch my language.

They should make the Arrow flashbacks really surreal and just use the Little Women script. For some reason that's never explained, every ten minutes or so the present-day action should be interrupted with flashbacks to 1857, where Oliver is dressed as a woman wearing a bonnet and his hair in curls having…

Yes, because in the DC comics Midnighter has been a dull sanitized character who's only purpose has been to act as an "It Gets Better" message for teenagers, and on tv, Arrow's Sara Lance has spent most episodes baking cookies.

Yeah, seriously. Most superhero movies could just throw in ten minutes or so of an origin flashback halfway through the film and it'd be fine. Many characters either have origin stories that are so familiar (Batman, Spiderman, Superman) or so similar to one another (75% of everybody else) that spending two hours on…

"I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" is a real piece of homophobic shit, not in the least because it's entire premise was that two straight men could game the system by pretending to be same-sex married. The film was made and shown at a time when gays and lesbians could not be legally married, anywhere in the…

I like the episode of The Real O'Neills when they all spend all day drinking and arguing and then the mother comes down the stairs clutching her old wedding dress, wigged out on morphine, and makes a long speech that ends with "we were so happy…for a time."

Please let the door hit you on the way out.

There's a significant difference in the three main examples discussed here, though. I think OITNB and even Scandal in their own clumsy ways were actually trying to address issues around BLM. One thing neither OITNB nor Scandal (despite some problems) did was ignore their African-American characters (I even argued in…

"Lights Out" is also the name of Bill Cosby's favorite cocktail.

Her aunt! [slap] Her mother! [slap] Her aunt! [slap] Her mother! [slap] She's her aunt AND her mother.

And they also had time for a "dunh-dunh-dunnnnnnh" soap-opera-y Hot Rachel runs off to be with Jeremy who -ohmigod— is planning revenge scene.

I'm totally with you on this. This episode wasn't "ambitious," it was exploitative. An ambitious show would have had the incident happen in the first twenty minutes or so and then focused on the fallout, particularly among the African-American characters who were most affected by what happened. It wouldn't have had…

That'd sure be rich, since Trump spent time attacking Ted Cruz's wife a few months ago.