Ooooooooooh.

That... cleared up nothing.

God help me I think I might regret asking, but what is a ‘ranga' intended to mean? 

It’s painful how much that elevates the concept.

There is always, always, a band on here I kind of like, so this year I’ll shout out for Mozes and the Firstborn.

I really loved season 1 because it rightly, and sensibly, recognised that Micro was the actual hero with an arc and aim worth fighting for, and it benefitted enormously from the dynamic that came as a result of that. I’m pretty sad we’re losing Micro but keeping Madani, who was much more spottily written. I’m not sure…

JJ S2 was awful - Janet McTeer was very good in a pretty thankless role, but man the rest of that season really sucked. Pointless plots that went nowhere and that damn Flashback episode which posited that a bunch of aspects of Jessica’s character (down to her freaking Jacket) are actually all about this guy we never…

Weaver was totally wasted, but my reasons for disliking Defenders is because whilst the team coming together interactions were decent in the early going, it ended up being about The Hand and their Black Sky ominous vaguery which I haaaate. They had 3 different seasons across 2 other shows to make The Hand a viable…

The Hand ruined everything they touched. 

JJ gets a very generous rating for its exceptional villain, but it's no less a show of a 'good half' and 'bad half' than Luke Cage S1 or DD S2. 

1. Punisher S1 - this show ended in a truly brave, interesting way almost no superhero media has matched. Ever.

Or CASTLEVANIA.

Well, shoot. We had a good run guys. 

I mean, he’s got a Legion of Doom, and he’s a dad in Riverdale, all damning evidence. Search your heart, you know it to be true.

I think at this point he actually qualifies as a Scooby Doo villain?

You guys, I uh... I have a sinking feeling that Riverdale cares significantly less about Joaquin than I do.

CW Prison Party Suicide Squad would be excellent, and maybe Rebecca’s infectious musical madness will finally allow Archie to get back to those singing aspirations he briefly forgot to become a gangster. Then Ollie can come recruit Cheryl as the new Speedy and finally the CW will have the sprawling television universe…

I like to think it’s a sneaky way of showing that deep down he’s a good guy, too. Misty has good instincts, and she immediately clocks Joy for being a terrible person but takes a shine to Ward. She’s got her Meachums straight.

As probably the only critic that managed to mine out what was good about S1 of this show (Ward, the ways various cults and groups shaped characters as weapons from childhood etc), I was waiting to hear your take on S2!

If we don’t get AT LEAST one scene which is just Ward flipping his shit about Danny a) using a not yet opened facility as a safehouse for a vigilante which then got attacked by a Jamaican gang, and b) buying another facility and promptly burning it down, then whats even the point of -having- a season two?