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Did I say they would?

"Perhaps as a result, unlike in 2017, we didn’t spend all day feeling constantly on-edge and mildly queasy… even if, in retrospect, perhaps we had reason to."

Christ this show has gotten ponderous. Remember when it used to fun? Even a bit campy? And where the FUCK is Felix? At this point I'm just watching because I've invested so much time already. Throw the final clone party and call it a day.

While I'm happy to see Jodie Whittaker back as Beth, the circumstances are very contrived. "Let's see, how can we bring back Beth….?"

Daisy's expression when she catches the old Coulson starting to emerge as he makes a quip before the broadcast reveal was especially precious.
I don't think a re-booted Ward coming out of the Matrix is pie-in-the-sky at all. It was the first thing that occurred to me when Aida's plan to give herself a flesh and blood

I could barely get through last season (in fact, I don't think I did; I have no idea why the Doctor's hiding in a college), but I didn't cancel the DVR recording, so I went ahead and watched this. I enjoyed it very much. Plenty of time for Moffat to muck it up with his ponderous navel gazing, but I'll keep watching

Because it only exists in the land of imagination.

I'd really rather just discuss the art, and touch on the politics where warranted (which is nowhere near as often as it comes up in articles here). I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I did not vote for Trump. But this piece shows that AV Club knows the majority of their audience's views, and panders to it. It's

Imagine a world where there was an arts and entertainment site where everybody wasn't in complete political lockstep.

Why did the villain need to trick the police into launching the attack on all of the people who had used the hashtag? Didn't he have complete control of the bees?

"it’s always tricky to try to drum up a lot of sympathy for a man chafing
under the confines of a well-meaning role reversal of a patriarchal
norm. Victoria loves him and is enthusiastic about including him in her
life, and even Albert seems to acknowledge that affection certainly
isn’t lacking. If he feels adrift

"I call marriage". Does anybody that writes for this show actually have kids? In real life both parents don't go to each and every event every kid ever has, and for Randall to have to put himself in an incredibly precarious position at work for a chess match where the kid just learned to play a week ago is ludicrous.

Great. More Bex Taylor-Klaus. She is so horribly unbelievable. A graduate of the Anthony Perkins school of nervous ticks and mannerisms. You can literally see her thinking about her performance every second she's on the screen. Same role, same suckage on 'Arrow' as well. Playing a believable street kid is tough, I get

As annoying as Logan and (especially) the Life and Death Brigade are, I think they are an important allegorical tool for Amy Sherman Palladino; they are the evil but tempting siren's call of the life of privilege without responsibility that Lorelei unequivocally walked away from. That Rory, born more removed from it,

Duhamel was excellent in this.
I just realized there's a major flaw in logic by the characters in this story. There's absolutely no need to waste time trying to figure out if Oswald was the assassin before you kill him. There's a damned great chance he was. So kill him and come back to the present and see if it worked.

I really enjoyed the book, but when Templeton surmises that Kennedy would have kept us out of Viet Nam, both in the book and in the series, I had to laugh out loud. The idea that the world would be a strikingly better place had Kennedy not been killed is a naive fairy tale. It says so much about Stephen King's

Power goes out in the oval office, President and staff are alone in the dark for like 20 seconds. Yeah. Secret Service wouldn't go tearing right in there or anything.
President forgets his dinner with his family. Because every minute of a President's time isn't accounted for with 5 people constantly reminding him of

An influence, or stepping stone, the writer neglects to mention is "Barney Miller", also cited by the workers in that field as one of the most accurate portrayals of their workplace.

"It also did look like they made up Susanna Thompson to look seven years
younger, though that really only served to emphasize the ridiculously
implausible age differences between the main characters and their
parents"

I don't know how you write a review of this series without bringing up Steven Soderbergh.