I like that they picked up the one interesting idea from the end of Coven - how Cordelia would be a different kind of Supreme than her mother - and really tried to explore it here.  Coven got so lost and confused by the end.  

Yeah, I never thought I’d sympathize with Madison but she was pretty unequivocally on the side of good this season and everyone still treated her like she was the worst person alive.  

Peters was severely underutilized this season but I did like that we got a return appearance from James March, who might actually be my favorite Peters character (he’s just such a weirdly jovial psychopath). I would have been fine with Queenie heading back to the Cortez if it meant we saw him again in this episode.

Now that you mention it, that did have essentially zero payoff after the fun reveal in the early episodes.  AHS tends to throw out so many plots that you don’t even notice when half of them get no real resolution.  (What WAS up with those damn aliens in Asylum?) 

I thought the implication was that she was going to bring back Madison, she was just going to wait and make her sweat it out first.  

Well, if you’re going to have to raise the Anti-Christ, at least it’s a nice location.  

Well, that was a whole bunch of cool imagery that didn’t make a lot of sense in terms of tying up characters or plots in a satisfying way.  They brought the divine Bassett back for that?  Super-pretty, super-boring young couple (I refuse to learn their names) are Plan B for the Apocalypse? Still, I mostly really…

Yeah, after I grew up it seemed strange to me that Timothy Mouse - the only animal besides Mrs. Jumbo who is unfailingly kind to him - called him by his hurtful nickname.

I almost never have a knee jerk reaction to remakes but Dumbo has always been special to me. Loved it as a kid, love it even as an adult knowing that there are some very problematic aspects of it. It’s the one Disney park ride I have to do if I’m at a Disney park and I’m a middle-aged man.  I can’t help it: this looks…

I thought Barry was the best TV show of last season period so I am fine with this. Honestly I would be OK if Silicon Valley just signed off now and I have liked that show.

I feel that to really surprise us at this point it would have to be in a completely unrelated genre. The Big Bird/Cloverfield Adventure on Sesame Street. Mary, Queen of Scots and Cloverfield. The Irish Potato Famine: A Cloverfield Documentary.

I’m seeing more “Snow Miser’s Son” in that outfit, though the family would never go in for killing curses (they’re more vaudeville ditty folks).

It was so very old fashioned and not in a good way and stuck Groban, who is a pretty charismatic guy, with the most boring character on TV.

I’ve always liked how the Silver Age comics paid so much attention to what were really tertiary characters.  A character like Alicia Masters seems like just a plot convenience (hey, Ben needs a girlfriend) but they actually bothered to make her a person with thoughts and feelings of her own.  

It’s really a tribute to how good the underlying concepts and designs of the characters were that they could be so radically revised and rethought by later writers and still remain recognizable.

Among the good guys: Ben Grimm, who in some ways is the heart and soul of the Fantastic Four if not the entire Marvel Universe. Among the bad guys: Galactus, who is really just a breathtaking and different concept of a villain. Despite how sour things got, Lee and Kirby really could do astounding work as a pair.

Did not anticipate Trebek dropping a Disclosure reference.

That’s a shame.  Jones truly was one of the greats.  I read his Fleetwood Mac book and it didn’t even come close to capturing the unique dynamic of that band.  

Whatever else you want to say about his complicated legacy, I don’t think comics has ever had a better ambassador to the general public.  He loved the medium and his enthusiasm led others to love the medium.  R.I.P. to a man with a massive legacy.  

Graham getting choked up while helping him get ready for the wedding. I cried so hard. Just beautifully underplayed by Walsh.