I see that Mitch's pregnancy isn't stopping those inappropriate flirty vibes between her and Peter. This episode actually got me wondering if she's faking the pregnancy, maybe so people in the governor's office perceive her as less of a threat.

Oh man, that line just made me cringe. It was so awful that I couldn't find any humour in it. Ye gods.

Yeah, as far as Amell's come acting wise, especially with his comic timing ("Her skirt's not that short!"), I still find him to be a bit of a charisma vacuum around his female co-stars. No real chemistry with Summer Glau, Katie Cassidy, Jessica de Gouw or Caity Lotz. There are some faint sparks with Emily Bett…

Felicity's portrayal tonight was… uh, not ideal, and not quite consistent with what we've seen before IMO.

Huh. So I wasn't the only one being unexpectedly seduced by Mycroft tonight. Good to know.

I've tried to be open-minded about this latest subplot and Grace's place on the show in general, but god, the TGW just cannot do the character any real justice. Until the writers can make her useful somehow, like her brother with his tech-fu skills, I'd prefer that they just keep her to the margins. Right now she just…

My my, all this hostility toward Melissa George. I had no idea she had so many haters, the poor woman. I like her role on TGW just fine, though, since her presence can only mean bad things for Peter. And anything that fucks Peter over makes me a happy viewer indeed.

Hell, how about a polyamorous relationship? I've no stomach left for those old-fashioned love triangles with the jealous fits and territorial pissing.

As soon as I saw her popping those pills in her apartment, I was like, "Oh dear God, no." It's just getting tiresome at this point. She lost her boyfriend and blames herself for it, she was almost fucking killed by a nutjob, she's fighting with her father yet again, and now she's descending into drug/alcohol…

Yeah, until this episode, I hadn't realized just how compromised she'd become. I was blinded by the image of the (relatively) morally upright woman she started out as, the one who was just trying to get back on her feet and put her life back together. Her liberation has gone hand in hand with her corruption. It'll be…

I suppose this could just be my long-running bias against Peter, but during an episode where everyone was out for blood and indulging some of their worst impulses, he still somehow managed to come off as the slimiest of the lot. Good grief, this guy just never learns. I can't wait for karma to bite him in the ass.

I was spoiled for the incest before watching the ep and that kiss still freaked the shit out of me. I brought my hands up to my face and started wailing "NOOOOOOOOOOOO STOOOOOOOOOP." And I thought the gang rape in the season premiere was as bad as it could get…

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't be feeling too sorry for Will, since the preview showed a presumably beautiful blonde woman in a bra crawling over him in bed. Could be Melissa George's character… maybe she'll team up with Will to exact her revenge on Peter?

Was there flattery in Grace's expression? Maybe I have to go back and take another look at the scene, but the actress seemed to play it rather ambiguously. I mostly just read shock and bafflement on her face… though I wouldn't be surprised if flattery is quick to come in the coming episodes. As creepy as that site is,…

Yeah, I just found it galling how Peter and Eli essentially screwed over the ethics officer. But that's Peter in a nutshell — even when he tries to be "good," he somehow manages to fall back on bad habits and questionable behaviour. I've never bought his supposed redemption as anything other than half-assed, and I'm…

Exactly. And I honestly hope Sonia and Joe aren't deterred from discussing more serious issues along with all the silly Friends shenanigans. AV Club is one of the few pop culture sites that bothers with things like diversity and representation, and this is the reason I keep coming back. The reviewers have done a good…

He somehow managed to come across as simultaneously sleazy and cheesy, in that Fabio, Harleqiun-romance kind of way. Total boner killer.

If you're not interested in the gender/sexuality politics of these reviews and comments, then you're free to disregard them. There are plenty of other fun, more frivolous things to focus on. But I don't see what the harm is in simply having a discussion about portrayals of lesbians on TV.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I actually never minded how long they milked the Niles/Daphne storyline. And frankly maybe it wouldn't have been such a terrible thing if they'd kept it an unrequited crush until the last few eps of the series, since as soon as they got together in season 8, the show began plummeting in…

I can't remember when or how I actually found out what it means to be homosexual, but I distinctly remember watching the Seinfeld episode where George discovers Susan's embarked on a relationship with another woman. I'd never heard the word lesbian before, so I turned to my dad and asked him what it meant. He got a…