So, does anyone else have a serious headcanon of "Malcolm and Damien are lovers"? Like, every time they're in each other's face and feuding I'm like JUST KISS ALREADY. JUST BE A COUPLE OF FABULOUS OLD GAY VILLAINS.

Yes. Like, I don't want to argue that this is A+ television. But it's a rock-solid episode of Legends — fun, good action (seriously that Sara-Malcolm fight — e.g. that moment when she throws him and you're like "nice throw" and then you see him bounce off the doorframe and down the stairs and you're like "oh *great*…

"The costumes and the settings change, and sometimes the story will
address a major social or political issue of the time, but I’m
constantly left wanting more from the time jumps. The team goes to the
roaring ’20s this week, and they end up doing what they always do,
disguising themselves so they can track down and…

Yeah. One of the things that really struck me about S1 is that Rip is actually a really terrible leader. Like, the team always pulls out a sorta-victory in the end, but mostly in spite of bad decisions on Rip's part.

Ok, uh, to expand a bit more, and a) SPOILERS and b) maybe a little too personal?

So, uh, my initial reaction is "no." But I'll try to be more thoughtful. Killjoys has good execution, but I've always found it to be thoroughly thin in conception — like, okay, yet another conspiracy involving a chosen one, and uh, mostly they go hunt "bad guys" and cash paychecks. DM is, frankly, excepting some…

So, to note: the witches in the movie are not pointlessly cruel. They're responding to _really serious_ wrongs done to them, like rape, abuse, systematic racism — all of which, by the way, the system has done _nothing_ to protect them from.

The odd thing about The Craft is how different the actual movie is from many impressions of it. That is: the real resolution of the movie comes when Sarah realizes that she's the Good Girl and she has to reject the Bitches of Eastwick, and then she does so, restoring the natural order of things. The whole point of…

Ok, I don't comment much, and I agree that Margot hasn't been given much to do — but I strongly disagree that Margot is presented as Just A Mean Girl. She's actually a very competent magician, a practical human being (cf. bringing a gun), and — the show seems to really sympathize with Margot and Elliot and why they…

1: I disagree that she ends up in just the same place. Turns out that dealing with trauma isn't like flipping a switch ("And now I'm cured!"). It's a long, long walk, and Jones is clearly further along that road than she was at the start of the season. (I mean, I am also here assuming that she's going to pick up…

So, to clarify what I meant by literalization: I think one of the ways that comic books can comment on contemporary issues is by taking some social thing that we're worried about, but which is somehow nebulous, and turning it into something more concrete - like a superpower, or a drug.

SPOILERS.

I've seen variants of this comment around a number of times - "why doesn't JJ just kill Kilgrave?" I think the show as a whole is meant as an answer to that question - "why not just murder abusers and rapists?"

I mean, one of the classic comics tropes that JJ does extremely well is literalizing our fears and aspirations. Kilgrave is a literalization of psychological abuse; Simpson - as you say - is a literalization of toxic masculinity. It's one of the most effective ways that comics with superheroes can talk about the…

I actually thought having him be even a little purple was a terrible mistake. I mean, contrast the mind control of Avengers 2, where Scarlet Witch waves her hands at you and then your eyes literally glow red so everyone knows you're controlled, and this season of JJ, which includes no CGI, no costumes, no secret…

Yeah, I mean, approximately 90% of the media I watch has straight bros as the main characters, and whenever that percentage dips below 80%, then I KNOW that Anita Sarkeesian has definitely corrupted all media forever, because 90% of everyone is a straight white bro.

So, avclub reviewers tend to have a deep understanding of genre, directors, film, etc. Most of the time, this leads to interesting, insightful reviews. But every once in a while, it leads them to be totally full of shit - as is the case here. Rather than reviewing Sense8, the reviewer appears to be reviewing the…