A recent rumor claimed that Black Widow would be a pre-Iron Man 2 prequel featuring Johansson and a still-brainwashed Winter Soldier long before either of them join up with the Avengers, but that’s very much unconfirmed.

Justice delayed, but not, in this instance, denied.

It took a few seasons, but the Kimmy plot finally arrived at its creepy conclusion. Though Philip thankfully called it off soon afterward. Character development, yay!

Ah, Nick, so close to getting away with it, except you’re a dumbass and Veronica is much smarter than you.

I wonder if it’s more interesting to have the male characters as one-dimensional. They’re the oppressors, and do we need to know much more about their motivations that we see every single day in real life?

Dolores turned into Madame Defarge so gradually, I didn’t even notice.

Between the amount of time J.R. has already been around and the fact that the show now has a definite endpoint, I’m increasingly thinking Rosario Dawson might actually stick around until the end, and that was the only reason I ever felt like the J.R. character seemed likely to meet a bad end or otherwise depart. I…

Kreuk has, weirdly, had a pretty decent run of work since the show, and she was one of the weaker castmembers.

That was a ton of fun, I thought. Some of the character resolutions were definitely Glee-level brief (the Cheryl/Josie bit, especially), but whatever. This show at its best has always been a bit like that.

I’ve wondered about that as well. They’ve mostly avoided indicating what year it is (the bulk of the pop culture references are left to the Narrator, who is speaking to us in the present day, so that’s not an issue).

I missed the opening few minutes of this episode so that WPIX could carry the announcement that the USA is bombing Syria. I bet that was Trump’s revenge for the jab the show took at him last week.

Mateo’s kind of a brat of late (though less so in recent episodes), so I get why the twins would be less well-disposed toward him.

I’d actually like to see a bit more of how Ellie and Anna fit into the family dynamic. Obviously they’re not going to get remotely the same attention from the show as Mateo, since Jane isn’t their mother, but the show could do more with how the girls interact with the rest. Heck, since they’re kind of “model children”…

I hope Veronica, Cheryl and “Antoinette” went to rescue Nana Rose after the end of this episode.

Tune in next week to learn the fate of Gorbachev!

Most figure skaters are exhausted after one performance in a day. They certainly couldn’t do multiple performances like that.

I really liked Jane reading Luisa’s POV, as interactions between them have been generally scarce since the pilot and that’s always felt to me like a character dynamic that needs to be explored eventually (also, at some point we need to see Luisa actually meet Mateo, I think).

A somewhat overreaching attempt at misdirection.

That wasn’t a retcon. Rose shooting Michael at the end of the season was pretty obviously something planned all along.

I knew that Xo getting injured was going to reveal something else. I’d have guessed pregnancy, except that the show had already covered that ground with her.