This is trailer is so Black that I will now have to wear my one and only Easter Suit with the 8 buttons on the jacket to the opening night.

but he just told her she looked stressed and suggested that she give him a massage.

Your going to burn the world down with this HOT TAKE.

That trailer was so Black, it made wypipo say, “but what about Captain America?”

I have no idea what Karnak’s pot farm romance is doing on this show, other than giving the character something to do before the family reunites for the final act. I at first thought their time on the beach was going to lead to him finding Triton/’s body, but no: Inexplicable sexy times!

You’re being very kind to this show. I think it’s absolutely dreadful. Why are we watching Karnak playing romance on a pot farm? Why is Gorgon referring to a bunch of surfer bros as “family”? Why do they keep showing us terrible flashbacks with terrible child actors?

This show is a disaster. I thought too many people…

I think they have been intentionally vague about what state Riverdale is in. I think it is in upstate New York though—across the border from Quebec & the maple syrup/ drug trade?

(still more black characters on average on the CW than most other network shows not specifically targeting that demographic)

Witch trial riots?

I remember being really pleasantly thrown off by Raising Hope because he was so funny and I was used to him being murderous in some way

My favorite tiny bit of the episode was Caitlin complaining that the entirety of her mutant medical training was “a week long course in variant human medicine”, if I recall the quote correctly. I just love tiny details that point to how a world that is otherwise familiar is affected by the presence of stuff like…

Hold up, Pops...Riverdale had RIOTS?

Going that fast, it’s easy to overshoot.

They don’t really need to be that fast, as long as they get out of Barry’s line of sight. The show has repeatedly demonstrated that Barry loses sight of a villain, they’re gone. Never mind that he should be able to search a 10-block radius in about 30 seconds.

This is a show where a speedster and a person who can instantly jump through dimensional portals cowered in fear because someone was pointing a gun at them.

No, I complained about one specific thing.

I’m sorry a show you like has clear flaws. Try to get over that fact.

Holy Christ, I couldn’t stand Cisco and Kid Flash fawning over how Barry is *even faster* this season. The writers need to realize the audience doesn’t care about Barry “going faster” because it is never clear on screen.

I’m really glad they’re leaning into the powers and showing everyone using theirs, and frequently. For superheroes, the powers are something they gained and feel obligated to use for good. For mutants, they’re a core part of who they are, and most of them use their abilities for really mundane things before Xavier…

Thinking out loud, would this episode make Elena Satine the first actress to appear in both the X-men universe and the MCU...without actually appearing in one of the movies? (Before I can even hit “Post,” I realize Amy Acker pulled the double-dip an episode ago.)

The Blink plotting conceit was really well executed, IMHO. For a reasonable effects budget, they managed to make an ongoing visually distinctive setpiece that tied together the entire episode, connected it to the larger series, while also making the scenes in the HQ stressful as all-get-out. Bravo to Gifted; not that…