Not to mention Jeremy Jordan, who's conquered the musical realms of Broadway and the silver screen!

I think he's more of a functionally omnipotent being like Q from "Star Trek", and the whole powers-stealing thing was just a smoke screen to keep the rest of Team Flash+Martian Manhunter+Mon-El busy while the musical progressed.

I was feeling a bit ripped off that the musical fantasy narrative just kind of crumbled two-thirds of the way through the episode, after only a couple original songs.

As far as I know, the law firm — and Marissa's purview as Diane's secretary — has nothing to do with the avian meat industry.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to see another diagnosis of what ails the Trump administration masquerading as an AV Club episodic review.

But arguably casting an Asian actor would have fallen into a different racist trope. One could make an argument that the Iron Fist as a franchise in inherently problematic, but that means never getting to see a Power Man and Iron Fist team-up.

For better or worse, America was built on cultural appropriation. We're the country of cigar store Indians and pizza as Italian food and Elvis Presley bringing black music to the masses in an easily digestible form. It's no small part of why the US has exerted cultural hegemony upon the world.

Hazard pay. And they don't have to worry about pension costs, because nobody lives long enough to collect.

Yes! It always cut away about five seconds too soon, so you missed the back half of the last sentence.

It's not just the bad guy's predation that makes that scene so viscerally horrible, it's that Kerry's truly on her own for the first time since she appeared in Cary's bedroom as a child.

If you've got to do a budget-saving bottle episode, it certainly doesn't hurt to hire Hiro Murai as your director. He'll make it something special.

Ray's face when he stepped foot on the moon, though.

Meanwhile, there is STILL no speedster to defend Earth-2 since Jesse ducked out to flirt with Wally on Earth-1, and zero fucks are given.

The "present day" going into the TVD finale was probably only a year or two shy of where "The Originals" will be after its five year time jump. But the final act of the TVD finale makes a number of time jumps, all the way to the deaths of Elena and Damon. The scene where Caroline receives the letter and the check from…

Well, you figure that "Vampire Diaries" had a three year time jump and then another smaller time jump, so that by the finale they were probably only a year or two shy of the five-year time jump that "The Originals" made.

Well said. For what it's worth, I didn't have a problem with Root's death either, and I understood narratively why they did it. But "POI" took a lot less flack than "The 100" when it seemed like a lot more of a bait. Like you say, it would have been less of an issue if Shahi's maternity leave hadn't kept them…

I didn't watch "Angel" when it originally aired, so I knew him as Sandy Rivers on HIMYM before I knew him as Wesley. Otherwise, he definitely would have fallen into that category for me. And as great as James Marsters was playing Spike, his East London accent was never very convincing.

Two things that struck me during the retrospective that aired before the finale:
1) Damon's such a well-defined character, both from a writing standpoint and a performance standpoint, that it was jarring to see the season one clips where the character was still very much a work in progress. Ian Somerhalder hadn't…

Good Parts:
- Exactly the right two final words. If the final beat had been anything else, I would have been sorely disappointed.
- The most important thing the finale got right was making Bonnie the hero, and giving her a happily ever after. After all the show has put her through, she deserved that. There were a number…

Bury Your Gays is definitely a thing, but this is the LAST show that should be accused of it. Not only did Clarke's previous (heterosexual) love interest die a horrible death, he died at HER hand. Recurring characters on this show die on a fairly frequent basis.