The interactions between Allison and Cal the show has put on screen make no sense if Cal murdered Tom, or even if he merely knows Tom was murdered. For one thing, he wouldn't bring Eddie along with him to look for the money at her motel room. Most of all, he clearly thought he could talk her into coming back,…

Yes. If it is discovered that Silas had Kemp murdered/was stealing money and property, it would give Cal an out by providing an explanation for Silas' disappearance, one that would divert attention from the New York compound. And Cal could feasibly be a character next season.

I'm sorry but any analysis starting from the premise that Silas is in any sense legit is just wrong. Silas didn't need to sneak into the camp to announce that Meyerism was a delusion. He didn't need to privately convince Cal of anything. Most of all, if you want to talk about mortality dooming Meyerism along with…

Well, now that Wally's there to be Iris' brother, they can ship Wally/Iris without the not-really-incest thing (where the problem is that if you have to explain it's not really incest, it's a problem.)

When I first saw the movie at a drive-in (the year of its release,) I was pretty young. The notion that the old woman Mother was when she died had a lover didn't register as believable. I don't remember what I thought of the dialogue, but I thought "Mother" was a liar. For what it's worth, I offer the final sentence…

I haven't seen the movie in thirty years. What I thought about the explanations at the end was that the psychiatrist was whistling past the graveyard, an attitude the movie I thought clearly endorsed, while allowing the audience to comfort itself with the rationale I didn't pay much attention to.

Well when she was using her powers to kick the Devil's ass, I though she was done with the guilt and feeling all empowered by it. I don't know where that went, so she should feel all vulnerable again. Strictly speaking, the only downer in her life was losing Ethan, but going into that kind of tailspin because she lost…

That she died of natural causes. But he couldn't bear to part with her and kept her body.

I never for a moment got the impression from Psycho that Norman killed his mother, nor that he killed anyone before his mother died. So I never thought the endgame of this series was setting up the movie.

It's not odd in AVClub reviewing, which does have a tendency to be half-done. (AKA half-baked.) But on the bright side, at least AVClub has a tendency to start with something. Lots of reviewers are nothing but bubbles from the PR machine.

This enforcement of female roles by other females is especially true in real life. It's much more comfortable to project this kind of thing onto cliche male characters in commercial fiction and drama.

Vanessa Ives is the reincarnation of Amunet. In the climax of season two she embraced her true nature to defeat Satan himself. The first episode of season three undoes all that in the name of plot. There are many good things about Penny Dreadful but, still…

OP=Original Post. not Original Poster. A person's review is not the person.

The OP starts by being so transfixed by CBS-ification, which isn't a thing at all, that it misses the way the show has grafted the book Moriarty's persona onto Prof. Vikner. The dude's a professor, how much more blatant can you get? By casting Jared Harris? They've already used Moran. Since they didn't use Prof.…

Didn't God send a lightning bolt to keep the reincarnation of an Egyptian sex demon and the Lupus Dei from doing it?

I was just watching the Max Fleischer cartoons. It was interesting to note that Superman fought for truth and justice, with nary a word about the American way. The moral I guess is that how hackneyed you see Superman as depends on which Superman you're talking about.

I suspect the show is obeying the idiotic mantra to up the stakes by making it personal. No doubt Savage has purloined Hawkman's mind and put it where it don't reincarnate. So there'll be no more Carters in the future. How Vandal can do that, dunno. But it's magic. The problem with the whole Savage/tweety birds story…

Since the government didn't even know about the permanent immunity, it wasn't an obstacle to being rescued. It is not immediately obvious how the FBI also having the temporary booster would be so much worse than Morra, the Legion of Whom, Apocryphon and who knows who else having it already. Plus, anyone who wants the…

Dying while drunk doesn't mean he was an alcoholic. But maybe I didn't understand her discussions with Hawk of Dad's alcoholism?

Perhaps this is true. But none of it make her belief that she can decree her unorganized religion is true and good. When she decides that she is going to see her Daddy in the after life, and she is right because unlike those organized religionists, she is the nice one, that's also saying you have a private revelation.…