I watched for a while and then gave up. The production values were fantastic, and individual episodes could sometimes have super-interesting, well-realized premises—episode three, with the plant people with one-day lifespans, is my favorite—but I never thought the various elements came together to make the larger…

Weekly every Friday, in this particular case.

I'm not at all sure this would have been the case, though. As it stands now, Blaine fills a necessary ecological niche, and for all his sociopathy, his brain club is still essentially a mom-and-pop organization. Imagine what happens when suddenly a lot of zombies are left without a supply of brains. Imagine when…

Even if I was just born with a heart full of neutrality?

I realize that "Have they even met?" refers to Jane and Rose and not Rafael and Rose, but yeah, the latter two have met, what with Rose being his stepmother. As for why she would do this, it could have something to do with reestablishing control of her power base via the Marbella, or maybe as a way of manipulating…

I'm between both camps. On one hand, the idea of Sin Rostro being played by a succession of people is a strong one. On the other hand, Bridget Regan.

God, that was weird. The show had given absolutely no indication that he'd left Lockhart / Garner before he suddenly appeared on Florrick, Agos & Lockhart. Granted, it made perfect sense for him to do so, but the fact that we didn't see it mentioned until then made it seem like a continuity flub more than…

You know, I quite liked Kalinda's departure last episode. There was a certain lack of pretense to it that felt right—neither the series nor the characters have done right by Kalinda for the longest time, so pretending that Kalinda's exit would be anything other than a hasty escape brought upon by desperation would…

Undoubtedly. What's he's doing is working, for now, but "for now" won't be for much longer. The other shoe will inevitably drop, and I'm super-interested in seeing what actually causes it to happen. There's just so many ways it can happen.

I'm loving this episode's suggestion that the zombie population of Seattle is considerably larger than Liv or the viewers suspect, because of the way it turns zombie apocalypse narrative sideways. The threat of zombies has always been their numbers and the lopsided zombies created : zombies killed ratio. Their major…

Yes, thank you. If you're going to praise the actor who plays the episode's central character, not using their name is a baffling writing choice. It feels especially odd given Mandvi's overall name recognition among the AV Club's target audience; why wouldn't one mention him by name? It's not like IMDB isn't a…

I don't think the hackers got access to that particular Elfman e-mail, though: that would probably had gone through Alicia's campaign account, which was not hacked into, according to last episode.

Yes, this. After the build-up her first date with Jaysene got, I was hoping that we'd at least get to see that if nothing else. Instead we got a steady stream of telling, which was a constant disappointment in an otherwise lovely season.

Heh, it's funny to hear about Xan being a stealth overachiever, since the same revelation was recently made about a similar Dylan Gelula character, Ford, on Chasing Life.

Wes doesn't extrapolate "water tower" from "wet"; he does so from "wat—". This isn't necessarily a more logical leap, but I bought Wes getting from this particular point A to that particular point B, given his mindset at the moment.

While I think this episode and the last work, I feel they work largely in spite of the writers' intentions rather than because of them. While the episode does well in presenting a multiplicity of views held by the characters, its attempts to remain neutral—it felt like journalism, at times, in the way it gave every…

This was the first episode I've ever seen of the series. I was drawn in by last week's previews and their promise of a Bonnie-focused episode, and was hoping that I'd get to see lots of Kat Graham goodness, of both the purely superficial and "fuck yeah, focus on POC characters" kind. Nope, and in that respect the…

That scene where Catherine first concludes that she has syphilis, and Claude is just over the moon about it, is absolute gold.

This was a lot of episode of Reign. Not all of it worked—Caroline's comments on how the show is using rape as a device to further are well-taken—but enough to make me glad the show was back. Although Leith, is, and always will be, a douche.

I dunno: as a member of that swath of the fanbase who thinks there's no such thing as unnecessary corset-wearing, I nevertheless found Katrina's inexplicable affection for the one she wore for the first half of the season maddening. Sure, I can appreciate her liking the garments as a character bit; given how the…