It seems pretty much a certainty that Julie didn’t understand what happened. She doesn’t know her brother is dead and seemed to blame Tom (“the man calling himself my father”) for what happened.

Unless a big swerve is coming, he knows the whole story, but dropped it because Hoyt knows he killed James. He cut a deal, but forgot it, and then Elisa comes along and stirs all this up and he starts investigating again.

I’m thinking the connection to the first season is just an Easter Egg and a red herring and not a revelation that we are going to get payoff to season 1. It does seem like Miss Isabel Hoyt had Julie at least for a time. The whole “Mary July” thing also seems like it might connect to the idea of a Mr. June. Almost like…

We didn’t get as much Peter/Sam personal involvement, but at least we got the uncommented-upon moment of Peter deciding to tell the Turd Burglar that he knows his identity before going to the cops, getting a cool moment for his documentary and also giving the culprit time to release his files and fuck up four peoples’…

I think a season 4 when it was on Fox would have been perfectly fine. The time away and loss of momentum throws things off. I at least give the original edit of season 4 some credit for trying something different.

Elsie is a good stand-in for the audience. She just wanders around confused and complaining about how fucking stupid everything is.

Hiding the card in a copy Slaughterhouse-Five makes total sense. Here’s why:

yes, that’s the cliff they’re hoping you hang off of this week

Counter-point: Greatest movie based on a comic book character, of all-time.

Zero Clown Thirty.

That was a great finale, but I think it also concludes my interest in this show. They’ve told a complete story about the main character. He’s a selfish, self-absorbed murderer who will continue to get himself into situations where, either for emotional or practical reasons, he “has to” kill people even though he…

Hmm. Well, I loved this, but if he really did kill Janice, that ending is so depressing that Barry is basically irredeemable to me now. Killing Chris definitely crossed a line, but in some twisted way you could justify it and say that Chris going to the police would get more people killed in the end. This, though, is…

See, this is why I am slowly losing my love for the Witcher Universe, and it have nothing to do with the games and the books. Sure, they have a heap of problem also, but it feels like every fan community about the game online is dripping with white nationalism, how they talk on and on about “pure white fantasy” and…

The same sort of person that is super-butthurt that a diverse staff is working on The Witcher show evinces no concern whatsoever over (or, worse yet, handwaves the idea of) whitewashing in films that come from non-Anglo-European cultures.

Here’s the thing about fiction: it’s fucking fiction. It is entirely possible for…

I came expecting to see a pic with a room full of white guys, looked at that pic and got excited that there were so many women and persons of color. Then I made the mistake of reading what the criticism was actually about and promptly remembered why I hate humans of the internetz.

Yeah, the saddest thing about Age of Ultron is that they got Spader to play Ultron and somehow managed not to make that awesome. Part of that was stupid CGI decisions (Ultron does not need eyebrows or moving lips) but mostly it’s just that Ultron was never as crazy or as scary as he needed to be. We all know Spader…

Yep, because he definitely didn’t torture all of his characters, just the female ones. Oh wait, that’s actually incorrect. Every character on Buffy and Angel, male or female, was broken at one time or another. If his work really were as sexist as you and Cracked making it out to me, I doubt people would have made that…

And it shows how insidious that shit can be. It’s so easy for men like that to make those comments and then to hide behind “it was a joke!” when they’re called out on it. He oversteps and she’s the one who ends up apologizing and being punished. It was subtly brutal.

Sally was shown to be kind of a jerk before this, though—she cuts off other people in the class to talk over them, she expects Barry to drop everything to be by her side, she’s snobbish about her old castmate who tried to help her by getting her the zoo mom audition. I don’t think she’s meant to be all that likable.

I guess you showed her!