Ah, gotcha. There is that. Thank you.

It made me so happy when Hannah was arrested and treated like a suspect in assassination attempt. Because of course Maggie Q can't be feet away from the president and not get erroneously suspected for their (attempted) murder.

Dark Angel? I'm interested in what you think the commonalities are— it's not a connection I'd ever think to make. I've been watching it for the first time this year and last, and tonally, I'd say it owes more to cyberpunk and its derivatives, than anything out of Buffy. Similarly, I'd say the way both series…

The X-Men: Evolution link is definitively circular, but I think it's also accurate, and I loved seeing the show included here. One of the weird things about it is that people tend to claim that the show "de-aged" the X-Men, which may technically be true in some cases (but not others: Evo Kitty, notably, is actually…

To clarify, lest I give the wrong impressions, I don't think Continuum is as consistent as Nikita, or manages to reach its heights or addictiveness. Season 2, in particular, gets bogged down by featuring a million different factions, many of them ill-defined. Where they are similar, I feel, is that they both have a…

My favorite detail this episode is how Lord Darnley's alleged arson was apparently fueled by jealousy at the come-hither looks Mary and shirtless firefighter James were shooting at each other. It's fantastic.

Continuum has already been mentioned in the comments: given its place in the timeline and niche audience, I'm not sure if it'd be accurate to consider it part of the trend, rather than part of something separate. It's an excellent show—and also the most relevant to today—but it's also one of those that somehow manage…

Wait, so that was Ward on Daisy's bed at the end? He really is the most generic person. I stuck around for most of the first season, and I still had no idea it was his face in the photo.

I am, again, so glad that Mary and Greer are in each others' circles again, and will apparently remain so in the near future. I like where they are right now—in completely different places from where they began, but able to relate because they've both grown so much and understand how that can be.

After making Quentin into a character who actually was somewhat likeable, The Magicians seems to be taking him closer to his book counterpart, which is not unexpected but disappointing, as I find Grossman's Quentin to have absolutely no worthwhile qualities and fully deserving of being punched continuously. The show…

So I think this is where I officially stop believing Supergirl can be better. If this is one of the season's best episodes, then there's really nothing in it for me. While it had its moments—I like Lillian and Lena Luthor a lot, and I'm with Caroline when it comes to the strength of James' out-of-costume scenes with…

If there's been one unquestionably positive thing this year, it's been that we've gotten some real superlative TV. Still, even with things like the season finales for The Good Place and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the premiere of that sublime piece of wackadoo that is Riverdale, haven't made me as happy as this premiere…

One thing I realized after watching this episode is that, with his dad being Riverdale's sheriff, Kevin and his siblings are almost certainly not the military brats they were in the comics. Given how huge that side of him was in the books—in the "everyone is an adult" Life with Archie, he ends up joining the army,…

Assorted thoughts:

Jane the Virgin's greatest strength continues to be its knack for the mundane. Even in episodes with little on the way of DRAMA, it's fun to see the Villanueva / De la Vega / Cordero / Alver clan and what they're up to. This was a second-tier episode all the way, and yet it feels much more watchable than Monday's…

Actually…this doesn't actually change, does it? Even if we throw away everything we were told about The Good Place, we're still left with a place that would ultimately reward people based on arbitrary rules—heck, it's even worse than what we're told, given how much more exclusive it is. And if intent matters more…

This is the sort of problem polyamory was made for. Finally, it will have its time! (I hope.)

So apparently this episode was written by Danny Cannon and directed by Eagle Eglisson, whom I associate with Nikita and therefore quality. I do not associate Gotham with quality. Is this episode better than average, at least?

That's where I know him from! I miss that show so much, so I was extra-glad to see him show up here.

The best part of the episode was for me, the confrontation between Hannah and Langdon. I'd been so disappointed that the pilot had seemingly cast Peter Outerbridge in a bit role and then not given him the opportunity to be in a scene with Maggie Q (he played an awesome second-tier antagonist in Nikita) that seeing him…