I too was struck at how easily Brianna settled into plantation life, and how willing she was to see to Phaedre and Ulysses as resources to utilized rather than people to be respected. The drawing scene was particularly revealing; the writers clearly intended it to show that Brianna — whose roommate in 1971, Gayle, is…

I feel like AV Club’s been awful lazy with its headlines lately, but this one’s a masterpiece.

There are definitely a lot of shitty people in the world in 2019 that are doing bad and don’t care. Eleanor and Jason both fit into that category when they were originally alive. But the fact that NOBODY has made the cut in over half a millennia suggests a systemic flaw.

It made perfect sense to me that the committee that oversees the Good Place would be flawed, because this story wouldn’t exist if the system wasn’t flawed.

But I really appreciated the fact that it turns out that the Bad Place didn’t rig the points system. That would have been an problem, with an easy solution. If the…

“But something very off-putting comes before Jamie’s guilt over having attacked the wrong man. He confuses what Brianna is saying and assumes she means that she had consensual sex with the man she previously said raped her. His immediate instinct is to think that she’s lying. What exactly is Outlander trying to…

The reviewer is referring to the scene in the cabin where everybody lays their cards on the table, not the scene in the woods. She discusses the scene in the woods elsewhere in the review, and clearly understood what Jamie was doing and why.

As someone who hasn’t read the books, the show needs to stand on its own.

The upside of this being a show where half of its main protagonists have been raped is that it does have to deal with the days, weeks, months, and years that follow that. Fiction has a way of devaluing survivors of rape as compromised, unclean, damaged. “Outlander” doesn’t have that option, because Jamie and Brianna…

I definitely agree with the Black Jack comparison, but I think he’s being set up as Brianna and Roger’s Black Jack-esque nemesis since the writers (and presumably the source material) like to parallel their journey with Claire and Jamie’s journey.

And, to be honest, Black Jack Randall sort of fell into the same…

That’s because so many of our main characters are from the 20th century, and got their inoculations.

My first reaction was that C- is too harsh, but the more I think about the episode’s problems, the more I agree with that grade.

The strange thing about this season is that in the two central romances, the man native to 1769 is a lot more progressive than the man native to 1971. Roger’s got some very old-fashioned…

I believe both girls were already born by the time Jamie came back into the picture.

I’ve long considered Sophie Skelton the weakest link among this cast, basically since adult Brianna was introduced. And Brianna as a character has been one of the least well-written characters.

So I was pleasantly surprised by this episode, in which the show was put primarily on Sophie Skelton’s shoulders, and she…

I’m guessing that Zelda will be still be agonizing about her decision to send it away in the first episode of Part 2.

They apparently came up with the idea for this special after they’d already shot the first episode of Part 2, so they had to sort of shoehorn this in between where Part 1 left off with the cliffhanger and wherever Part 2 kicks off. It explains why none of the characters really had any forward momentum. In spite of…

Ruby Rose to me is the textbook example of how acting ability and onscreen charisma are two separate things. She’s still a barely-adequate actress, but she effortlessly owns the screen every time she’s in frame.

They just brought Sea Shimooka on board as a series regular playing Oliver’s half-sister (via the other parent) Emiko Queen. So I wouldn’t be completely shocked if Stephen Amell is looking to exit so Oliver dies during next year’s crossover and Emiko takes over as the central character of “Arrow”.

Exactly right. The central conflict when it comes to Lord John Grey is that he is someone who always seeks to do what is honorable, at a time and in a culture where homosexuality is considered dishonorable. Trying to square that particular circle has caused him much torment over his lifetime, and led him to withhold…

That’s because it doesn’t get mostly destroyed every season, like Star City does.

They could have said she started experimenting with this drug called Green Light back when she was living in Freeland...