I think episodes like ‘Pickle Rick’ help to perpetuate that notion, to be honest. They deliberately said that they wanted to take Rick to his weakest and still have him kick ass - kinda making him hero-worshippable, there. (The comparison they gave was Four Days Out in Breaking Bad, but Walter White was still pretty…

And The Good Doctor has nothing to do with The Good Fight, The Good Place, The Good Wife or 1970s British sitcom The Good Life. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, TV.

Well, exactly, I was sort of taking it as read that Magnitude would be in it. Pop and, indeed, pop.

I mean, the moustache was already putting me off. Those performances (does anythone else think Branagh seems to be kind of awful here?) and some groanworthy dialogue, at least out of context, really do nothing to get me interested in it again.

Still want. With Troy and Shirley, along with Elroy and maybe Frankie (I think Hickey was killed off unceremoniously offscreen? Otherwise, throw him in too). Don’t need Duncan. And Chang only needs a role off to the side, like he was in season 1 (the Dean can be more prominent, it kind of fits for him).

Ah, good point, I’d forgotten that was coming up. Yeah, it pretty much depends if they find it as egregious as those you’ve mentioned - but it’d also need to be egregious in a different way to those others, and I can only really see it being bad in the way Crystal Skull or Force Awakens [arguably] were, not in…

While I’d like to see the Member Berries again (I’m even not opposed to the serialisation - it’s worked a lot over the last few years, even if they didn’t really stick the landing last year) I think they only returned to Trumpison because there was something to comment on. I expect they’ll go back to him when there’s…

I enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to where the season takes its characters... but one of my favourite parts of the first season was the ethics. Genuine, deep, funny conversations about ethics with no easy answers - I loved that! I’m not sure there’s room in Take Two/Three for those kinds of debates, but I hope they…

As others have said, How I Met Your Mother beat BoJack to the punch five years ago. It’s a shame, as this episode handles it a lot better, but having seen the former meant that I twigged the case in the latter (at least as a possibility) from pretty much the opening.

The EPs can still get their credit (though 14 for Jessica Jones? 15 for the Defenders? The title loses all meaning), but why not after the titles have finished, thrown up over the main action? It’s what has to happen on shows without titles anyway, and it’s how Buffy and Angel always did it (just the actors and…

I only skip intros over a minute long - I took to doing that every episode for Dexter (1min45 is just too long) and sometimes for Game of Thrones. But 30-60 seconds is perfect, and gives time to really get you in tune with the show.

HOLY COW PEOPLE OF EARTH SEASON 2 STARTED?

It’s got a really weird balance. It’s like there’s two realities, one where MacFarlane made a 20 minute sci-fi sitcom (Red Dwarf-ish) and the other where he made a 45 minute serious-ish Star Trek homage. And somehow we wound up in the third universe where we got the sitcom episode filled out to 45 minutes with scenes…

This is like when your shitty father is too busy at the track so your grandparents step in to make sure you’ve got clothes for school and food and shelter during a hurricane.

To be fair, while you may miss the Mackey conversations I strongly suspect you’ll still be attacked by the Rednecks for being a ‘cisgender boy’ just as if you were a ‘transgender girl’ (it’s the approach Parker and Stone usually take with their Redneck characters, as shown regarding races/racists in ‘With Apologies to…

And catholics, protestants, atheists, agnostics - everyone got a whack of the stick.

Any way you can fix a ‘What’s On Tonight’ logo over the header image each time? Like io9 do with their ‘Morning Spoilers’. This is a good category, I’d like to be able to more easily find it each day.

It’s that old story/joke/fable about the family in danger from flooding/fire/insert your crisis ignoring help from passers-by because they believe God will save them, and when they die and ask God why he didn’t save them he says he tried, he sent all those passers-by...

Is THAT what he said? I couldn’t make it out, it sounded like gibberish to me (because, well, why WOULD he say ‘cliffhanger’? The rest of the show - particularly the Terror - hasn’t been that meta).

There’s a similar story behind Kalpen Modi, or ‘Kal Penn’; he didn’t believe what he’d heard that anglicising his name would improve his chances, but he tried it on a whim and his auditions TRIPLED.