Yes and yes!

First time chiming in! I know I’m slightly late to the party, but I’m reading these reviews after watching each episode and would still like to comment on the ones on which I have thoughts.

Last week’s episode was so strong because of how it so fluently and consistently married Kevin’s past with his present; this week, while still emotionally impactful, was not as successful in its use of that storytelling structure. I agree that there hasn’t been enough development equating teenage Kate with adult Kate,…

Coming into this as merely an avid TV viewer and someone who has not had any prior knowledge about the original comics...

Did the episode reveal how Mon-El returned from the future to the present day? Just first making sure I didn’t miss it... But this denial of information also added to my frustration about the delayed secret-revealing, which is now stretched out even more (and we probably won’t get further answers until after the…

Ahh thank you!

The scene with Dr. Akopian listing the symptoms and Rebecca thinking back on her past moments was wonderful: densely informational but still emotionally impactful. And the writers are incredibly thoughtful in how they’ve crafted this diagnosis around all of Rebecca’s behaviors throughout the whole series.

That’s when it clicks: Fabian wants his exit from Los Viajes De Guillermo to have the same emotional impact of Michael’s exit from Jane The Virgin.

There will actually be one more episode on Dec. 8.

Ooooo yes, very much in support of this idea.

I too thought it was an interesting conclusion in that Kevin’s problem was easily circumvented for someone else’s (albeit without the chance to even speak about his issue). As Caroline parsed, Kevin started on this road of constant validation when he saw himself being neglected as a child, so the instance of that…

What an extraordinary episode—Kevin suddenly became just as complex, engaging, and emotionally affective as the rest of his family members. And a fantastic analysis, Caroline; I love your breakdown of Kevin’s need for validation turning into an inescapable void of helplessness. It’s interesting to see the…

I totally agree about this episode working well with one character’s storyline. I thought last week’s installment had way too many plots, focusing on all of the Pearson family members and throwing William back into the mix. This week, a stripped-back Kevin-centric arc was the perfect remedy.

For what it’s worth, I’ve always enjoyed The Mindy Project for the humor; this show may be the champion of one-liners, in my book. But apart from that, yes, the plotting and character development have been mostly uninspiring and underdeveloped in the show’s latter run, and this finale was no different. Bringing Danny…

I think it’s understandable that Gail, who is not a doctor, maybe missed seeing the twins in ultrasounds; but I was also still confused by everything else surrounding the situation:

Like I thought with last week’s episode, this show keeps missing opportunities to do something more campy and magical with itself. There’s a murder-mystery party—I don’t know how, but make fantasy sequences based on that! Jane is having sexual whims—play those up even more! I feel like, again, this show is defaulting…

I do not think the twist-on-twist-on-twist ordeal has totally worked; I think all three of the recent episode endings—Luisa meeting “Carl,” “Carl” as a hallucination, and “Carl” as a non-hallucination working—could have been condensed somehow. They were all close enough in terms of relevance and plot direction that…

And saying “his bisexuality sets him apart from Jane’s late husband” is a bit reductive, as if to say that Adam’s sexuality is suddenly the most distinguishing thing about him. While I think it’s passable for the show to use his orientation as a one-time device to challenge Jane, it should not be an instant indicator…

I would say that that scene was strong enough to be the most memorable and impactful one to me, even when surrounded by all of the Jody/Mary/Africa nonsense.

I wonder if this episode would have fared better without Kate and Kevin’s storylines; there were essentially five plots happening this week, which is a lot. As a result, they mostly lost the opportunity to have strong emotional payoffs, either by simply not giving one in the end (as in Kate’s storyline and, somewhat,…