The flashbacks were particularly illuminating in the season premiere, because of how Paul and Luke remembered them.

Also, Paul and Ava have a warm and supportive relationship, which stands in contrast to Paul and Luke’s relationship. She sees the way Paul explodes at Luke, she knows it isn’t right, but it also isn’t her experience with him.

Just because your father didn’t speak to you or your siblings that way doesn’t mean that countless other fathers didn’t speak to their kids that way. I didn’t say Paul’s behavior was universal, or even anywhere close to universal. But I do believe that it was not as uncommon as you think it was.

The thing is, Paul hasn’t said anything to Luke that countless fathers haven’t said to countless sons for generations. The understanding that it is inappropriate is a fairly recent societal development. Buying drugs, punching your father in the mouth, these are serious things.

Justin Hartley is at his most powerful on this show when Kevin is listening to someone else. Kevin has a way of really actively listening, and trying to understand the other person’s point of view.

Once Kevin got over his defensiveness at being perceived as racist, the episode really came alive for me. Both Randall and…

Phylicia Rashad is so dignified and imperious in this role, and what was really incredible about her last couple episodes is that she’s injected real warmth and maternal connection into the character without undermining the character’s dignified and imperious nature. Even as she’s being so vulnerable with Beth about…

I really enjoyed Kitty in the three movies, but I would imagine a similar thing will happen with her as happened with Frasier Crane when he went from “Cheers” to his own spinoff; supporting characters in comedies can be a bit zany and over the top. The central character has to be a bit more complex and multi-faceted.

We…

The immediate threat of Control had been neutralized, when Mirror Georgiou microwaved him in the spore chamber. Sending the Sphere (and thus Discovery) to the future was about nipping the longer term threat of Control — either restored from a backup, reconstituted from another copy floating around Federation…

I guess I just assumed. He’s certainly going to be the one getting the most screen time going forward.

Another thing I’m unclear on is exactly what the situation was with following Burnham into the wormhole. We know all of the senior staff agreed to come along, but what about the rank and file? It sure seems like a…

The thing I’m liking most about this season is that each episode has had a really strong A plot that also furthered the ongoing arc of the season:
3x01: Burnham got her feet under her in the future.
3x02: Discovery got its feet under it in the future.
3x03: Discovery learns what’s happened to Earth in the last…

It was also a good opportunity to really establish Dr. Culber as the ship’s chief medical officer and a senior member of the crew. Strange as that is to say three seasons in, with all of the crazy shit that happened to his character in the first two seasons the show never really got to explore that aspect of the…

Adira, while a genius like Wesley, feels flawed in ways that Wesley was seldom allowed to be. In her handful of scenes, she felt more like a real teenager than Wesley ever did.

I never got the sense that the Trill symbionts cared about gender identity whatsoever. The gender identity for the joined Trill always seemed to come from the current host. It would therefore make sense if Adira was gender nonconforming prior to being joined.

My guess is when the Titan colonists first requested assistance from United Earth, United Earth knew that they were humans and just didn’t give a shit. They hid that fact because turning your back on your own species is pretty crappy, and then by the truth of the matter never got passed down with the various…

Eliot’s also lived a much harder life than Elliott has. If it reached the point of throwing down, Eliot has a lot more experience being lethal than Elliott does..

Eliot on “The Magicians” is mostly a good person, albeit begrudgingly, though. Whereas Elliott on “Search Party” is an unabashed, unrepentant narcissist with hardly any concern for anything outside of himself.

Which in a way is still refreshing when compared to Dory and Drew, who have each deluded themselves into…

The most savage satire of Millennials out there, because — unlike the boomers’ mockery — the digs actually hit home. I don’t know anybody awful enough to have all of their appalling traits, but I know a lot of people who have some of their appalling traits.

This whole episode is basically Yolanda’s origin story, including how she ended up sitting at the losers’ table and shutting everybody out.

One thing this episode did well was highlight what makes the show work, which is the Legends’ acceptance of one another and the chaos that comes with it.

Nate with Lita and Charlie with Astra both basically spoke to the fact that being a Legend doesn’t mean smoothing out the flaws and eccentricities that define you,…

I have always enjoyed episodes of “Legends” built around our regular characters just bouncing off one another, and this was no exception.