I think it says something that even a B-level episode is still the highlight of my TV week. Every scene had something delightful in it. The worst thing that can be said about the episode was that it left us wanting more of what we got.

That bit where Oliver was fighting his way through the top level while Ben Turner was a floor below? So damn cool. I seriously have no idea how they shot some of that on a CW budget.

Well we can check “youngest sister falls for a secret half-demon who knows she’s a witch” off the Classic Charmed Storylines list! Though that actor needs to brush up on his ADR skills if we’re gonna continue to hear his thoughts—he sounded like Harrison Ford in the theatrical cut of Blade Runner.

I almost wonder if Lena was so open with him because--consciously or not--she knew the kid was gonna die.

I’m still mad Wally apparently fought Starro already. OFF-SCREEN.

They made a couple cute nods to the actual Ishiro Honda here—he really did keep an undetonated mortar shell in his office that had fallen near him during the war, and the movie he’s filming at the beginning of the episode seems to be The Blue Pearl, which was about pearl divers.

Really enjoying this season so far, but it’s gonna be interesting to see if they can carry this momentum into the second half. They don’t exactly have the best track record there.

Yeah, this episode just bit off more than it could chew. Ghosts AND time-travel? Pace yourselves with the time-honored genre traditions, Charmed.

He's only 5 years younger than Brenda Strong who plays his mother. Guess playing around with all that Kryptonite prematurely aged him. 

I’m thinking maybe only Level 2 was co-ed and there’s a women’s wing of Level 1 we haven’t seen. Or maybe they just made an exception for Talia—it’s pretty apparent this place isn’t entirely kosher.

Arrow corner: I thought it was a solid episode. I was hoping the Demon would turn out to be Talia considering how unfinished they left things after the island. And Fauxrel and Felicity are surprisingly fun together.

I say this with love but devoting an entire lengthy paragraph to criticize the set and staging is peak Oliver Sava.

I know a lot of people cite the lighter tone and zaniness as the reason this show has improved so much over the past few seasons—and they’re not wrong—but I really think credit is due to how well they write the character drama as well. This show has characters behave like actual humans far more consistently than most…

Yeah I get the appeal of seeing a grown-up William and all but they shot things so far into the future that it’s hard to really care (or follow) what’s going on. Star City’s a hellzone (well, more of one) and Felicity’s (maybe) dead? O...kay, I guess?

Iris going all “over-protective parent” on Nora reminded me that she really is Joe West’s daughter. It’s pretty much been swept under the rug, but his mandate that Barry never tell Iris that he was the Flash to “protect” her definitely fell into the category of controlling behavior. Actually, now that Nora is staying…

Black Lightning still gets weekly reviews. It’s Arrow that got dropped.

No sir-ee. I’ve been a fan since he turned sneering at Maggie Q into an art form on Nikita.

I kept waiting for them to just scry for the damn demon, but I’m kinda glad they didn’t. Waving a rock over a map that only worked when the plot needed it to did get old.

I didn’t even realize that people who don’t read casting notices might not know that Lockwood was Agent Liberty until the end (Sam Witwer’s got a pretty distinctive voice, though).

Lillian Luthor’s a strong contender too.