Fair enough about the characters and story (though honestly the story isn't exactly complex…) but really? The lighting? The only scenes that are dark to me are the ones that actually take place at night. Most of the courtroom scenes and the scenes that take place during the day look just like any other TV show daytime…

I do think it's a bit of a stretch that every man he meets is instantly attracted to him. I mean, sure, he's good-looking but is he really everyone's type?

Connor kin of reminds me of Archie Punjabi's character from "The Good Wife" in that he can seduce anything out of anyone in less than 12 hours of meeting them. Right now it's working for me, but I kind of hope he fails at some point — either he gets shot down, or the guy he's with just hooks up with him and doesn't…

I wonder how many ISIS militants thought they were going to joining the Archer organization until they got handed a machete and told that their main assignment will be patrolling a dam in Mosul.

It's unfortunate that the consumption of (unethically sourced) infant souls has become the latest trend among celebrities.

Stuffing an artificial hymen up your nose sounds incredibly impractical. So is stuffing a snake's head into your penis hole, actually, but that's beside the point. I'm not judging the kink, I'm just saying that I'm not sure that it would even be possible to do that. Would the artificial hymen even fit??

Well, she knows that he stole them from her husband. Why would you want some hobo to keep your husband's nice new shoes, especially if you know your husband is the kind of petulant abusive asshole who would blame you for that if he found out?

The idea of literal darkness spreading as a result of an execution must have been a striking cultural image in the 1960s. Either that or the pressure to churn out new stories means that a lot of plot threads had to be recycled. (See also — next week, we get another struggling, washed-up ventriloquist and his evil…

This episode reminds me of the other one where the guy is on death row but it is really a dream he is having and when he is executed the world goes dark as the dream world comes apart.

Daughter probably refused. She seems to find the whole idea repulsive, like the people in "Long Live Walter Jameson".

The thing about aggressive jealousy and control is that it's not always rational. In fact, for an abuser it's better if it isn't rational since it ups the fear level by keeping the victim off-balance. They don't know WHAT is going to set their partner off so they have to be nervous and uncomfortable all the time.…

He usually hasn't been careful about that kind of thing, has he?

I liked "Ninety Years" because it's one of the few times that a character is able to stand up to the eerie force of the Twilight Zone and say, "No, screw this." Contrast that with "Hitch Hiker". "Hitch Hiker" is a much stronger episode overall, but it was kind of nice, occasionally, to let people say 'no' to destiny.…

Yes, but you have to resist that urge. Or else you'll be damned.

The other thing about that is that if you go by fan reactions then for the most part you have to give up all storylines and characters. Depending on where you go, you will probably find people complaining about every single aspect of this show from its inception. Eventually you have to tune most of this stuff out if…

That's an interesting point. If so, it would help the season make more sense. The Leviathans may not have explained their plan until the end of the season but the show at least hinted that they had one, and once the plan was unveiled all of the build-up makes sense (in the vein of, "oh, Roman was buying all those…

I can almost live with that, because obviously the writers couldn't have planted clues for "Bloodlines" back in the previous 8 seasons. They could have done a better job setting it up but I can let that one go. It's a little harder to explain why the end of the afterlife isn't a bigger deal in this cosmology; in…

Oh that makes sense. I guess for me the problem with that is that it's really hard to tell a story by committee like that. I don't know how they write screenplays and film episodes, but I think it's very difficult to use techniques like foreshadowing and to have good pacing, character development, etc. if you are…

That's actually a good way to write a story.

Agreed. Season 7 had some diversions like every other season before and after it but it had a clear villain with a comprehensible master plan (turn the entire world into a beef ranch).