Well, to be fair, its own sequels kinda fucked the Austin Powers franchise even harder.

"He's just this annoying little kid over on another network. Never mind."

"You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places, making underground videos is considered a subversive act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows?"

Yoknapatawpha. Also I'm surprised at no mention of H.P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic River Valley towns: Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth, etc.

I was — well, not surprised, because it's obvious the writers have completely forgotten this plotline by now — but I did wonder momentarily whether they might consider having the Kindred use the sword. After all, he actually has some experience with edged weapons and he doesn't have a soul to endanger (I don't…

Well, they also thought Hawley was someone we'd want to spend time with instead of Jenny, so I think it's a pretty fair bet that they don't have the firmest grasp on their audience's taste.

Hey, if a shady industrialist can't toss a few random mutants down his own private memory hole for indefinite periods of time with no due process, then the terrorists will have won!

While I liked last season just fine, I think having Jess and Nick as a couple tended to slow the comic momentum a bit at times, since you usually wound up with the "A" plot being about their romantic travails with the rest of the characters scrambling for screentime in various often unrelated side-plots. Since the…

Well, it's a grey area.

I hope it's not the case too, but I was running down the main cast and it struck me as one possibility since we've been told someone's gonna buy it next week.

Yeah, whatever happened to the Kindred? I imagine him waiting quietly by the phone at the same motel as Huell from Breaking Bad.

I dunno. I get the feeling Hawley's the show's Wesley Crusher — someone the writers are inexplicably fond of and are going to keep shoehorning into as many episodes as possible until the audience just gives up and grudgingly accepts him. I had the ominous thought that next week's casualty would be Jenny, given that…

I don't know that one, so I'd have to listen again to be sure, but I assumed it was one of the remixes of "THwP."

One thing we learned this episode: Wayne Manor really does have more than one room after all.

And Gang of Four's "To Hell With Poverty" when they first walk in.

Also never not funny: Flashback Holt.

She was also Dr Akley's wife on Manhattan, fwiw (I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out where I'd seen her before because that was such a contained, serious part and this one is such a broadly comic one it was kind of hard to believe they were the same person).

So the takeaway from this is that Andrew finally notices that his childhood best friend is an objectively horrible person — something the audience has known since episode A — but also realizes that Zelda is a less toxic version of the same thing?

It was definitely a (comparatively) weak episode, but I put it down to the "spouse vs. in-law" plot being one of those well-worn sitcom perennials that every show seems to feel it has to do, even if its potential for original humor has been pretty much wrung dry by now — and, hey, at least they're getting it out of…

The usual case in these sort of scenarios is "show us the bodies or it didn't happen," so I immediately thought that Ward might be working some sort of long con on behalf of SHIELD, the US government, or possibly even on his own initiative in order to redeem himself later, and that consequently his brother and parents…