Dude…I have been waiting! There's still 4 more episodes, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Good catch, y'all!

Excellent and well thought out article, Alex. Way to be on the spot with the references to our actual political climate.

When Coulson, Jemma, and Ward go to get Radcliffe, did anyone get the Fantasy Island tv show references? (Does anyone here remember the old TV show Fantasy Island?) The real-life location they used for Radcliffe's "gilded cage" is the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Arcadia, CA. The…

C-Money!

Hey Caroline,

With all due respect, I don't understand your comment. But whatever.

Hey Caroline,

By "underground bunker," Caroline, I am assuming you mean top-floor penthouse suite?

I'll bet ya that the woman Fitz is with in the Rolls Royce in the Framework (at the Arclight Cinema in downtown Culver City, CA) is AIDA.

You know what? You are absolutely correct. My bad. I thought it might be from the first one, but I was at work and couldn't verify. But yeah, you're right.

Of which the joke in The Lego Movie was also a nod to Austin Powers in Goldmember (Goldmember having been released in 2002, The Lego Movie being released in 2014).

Hi Alex,

I am so pleased you mentioned the rope-a-dope, Ali!!! Poor little white girl, Terri Schwartz, over at IGN did not at all get the reference. She thought Luke's fighting style and how he won was vague. I thought the flashback to Willis training Carl and the subsequent fight pretty much nailed it on the head. But I guess…

Hi Caroline,

You know what, Ali? As much as I get your sarcasm, the Diamondback Illmatic line, to me, was about the lyric from the track, "Life's a Bitch" when Nasty Nas says, "Time is Illmatic, keep static like wool fabric. Pack a 4-matic to crack your whole cabbage." Know what I mean? Like, obviously it was a nod to Nasir…

Lame. It is hard to take your criticism seriously when you aren't even clever enough to come up with a screen name that consists of anything besides your first initial combined with your last name. But to each their own.

Excellent nod to the Tupac track Hail Mary, Ali. "I ain't a killer, but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin pussy."

Caroline, I have not yet finished reading your review, but I had to stop and write this because I think you are missing the point about the coincidence thing. Perhaps it's because you are binge watching this series and I am taking my sweet time with it, but there was a whole beat in the last episode where Sonia Braga…

As always, I enjoy your insight into this program, Ali. I only have one semantic complaint. Luke Cage helped get back the money of a stripper, NOT a waitress. One can discern this by noticing that the woman and Luke are, at one point, leaving an establishment called Sugar Daddies Gentlemen's Club. I suppose she could…