The Good Place. At this stage I've an advanced degree in foreshadowing, and I'm almost never shocked by TV anymore. The Good Place knocked my socks off with the final twist. What was really incredible about it was that I'd noticed what I thought were "plot holes" throughout the season, but I assumed that, since it was…

That would have made the episode into a really preachy, non-sequitur in the line of "Beer Bad". Never mind that it would have been OOC since none of the characters are religious, with the exception of using holy water and crosses as weapons.
Essentially every religious person twists scripture for their own uses (be…

Well, considering Artemis/Evelyn turned out to be completely untrustworthy and revealed everyone's secret identities to Prometheus, I'm pretty sure Oliver's instinct was the right one. As it happened, Tobias Church had already revealed Oliver's identity, but Evelyn didn't know that during her betrayal.

Great episode, as usual. There was one thing that annoyed me however. Jane says to Rafael after he reveals he covered up his father's misdeeds that "Because maybe if you went to church, you would know right from wrong." My first reaction was that was a horrible, ignorant and patronising thing to say. The narrator's…

No, they're stopping The Middle coverage?! The reviews and comments on the episode always really enhanced my enjoyment of the episodes themselves. I'll really miss that every Thursday evening.

Reese is definitely a square. Root is a squiggly line. Harold is a circle.
The only one I'm stuck on is Fusco.

The virus wasn't out of thin air. It already existed, it's just that pre-Elias and-Root-dying Finch wouldn't have used it because of the collateral damage. (And in the end, there was a lot of it.)

I thought it was a combination of two things. Firstly, Harold set the Machine free, so she was able to attack with her whole power. (And I'm assuming, since Finch is Finch, that at her core, the Machine is designed better than Samaritan.)
Plus, I think that because of the Machine's ability to love and her…

Wow, I felt very differently than you about Blackwell. I personally love PoI's message that no-one is irrelevant and all life matters (and I always prefer when characters take the merciful route over killing a villain).

If you wouldn't mind, would you please put in a spoiler alert warning for Orphan Black? I'm a season behind, so that death was new to me. Especially since it's thrown in in the middle of a block of text, it would hopefully prevent someone else from being spoiled.

I'm pretty sure that the point the film was making is that we shouldn't rush into romantic commitment without getting to know the actual person. I think it's a good lesson for girls to learn that just because a guy acts "nice" doesn't mean he's a good person.
I'm pretty sure that we don't need to worry about the…

1. You'd have a point, if there hadn't been a handful of alcoholics at the very most in the show in the last hundred or so episodes. (I'm three quarters of the way through a rewatch of the show at the minute, and the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Caleb's mother, and it wasn't played for laughs…

Don't get me wrong, I love PoI with all my heart. However, did they really need to lean in to every Irish stereotype?

Everyone suddenly thinking Damon is the scum of the earth this season has been driving me crazy.

Characters don't know they're in a TV show and people in real life don't make decisions based on what would be likely to happen if they were in a TV show. For a start, you don't know what genre you're in, so narrative cues could imply something totally different to what you believe it does. (For example, a comedy…

TLA should at the very least have been mentioned in the description. Not mentioning it implies that it's the childish cousin that parents should avoid.

I know some people feel like the second half of the second episode leaned to heavily on advertising, but I was just too happy for the Hecks to care. When they finished the first day without going on a single ride, I thought they only had a day pass and I was on the point of being genuinely upset for them that it could…

We had to take care of a robot baby. (Though only for a night.) It was actually a reasonably realistic experience. The baby would cry regularly and you'd have try a few things before you'd figure out what it wanted. (Sometimes you'd have to feed it for ages before it would be satisfied.) Plus, you couldn't just toss…

Yes, Hannibal doesn't like Verger. And that's why he tried to sic Will on him. Hannibal is a brilliant man. There's no way he'd "accidentally" hint to Mason that Margot wanted to get pregnant. The whole thing would have worked out excellently for Hannibal. Mason would be dead. Will would have killed someone else and…

I get that it's a little disturbing, but I don't know why it makes his character irreversible for you. Will had eaten plenty of human meat before this during his meals with Hannibal. And in terms of morality, cannibalism is a victimless crime provided the person died of natural causes (or in this case, was killed in…