brilliant. and the film is a masterpiece

I just think it's too easy, lazy, and makes her a lot less interesting as a character. I don't like the trope of every girl on a show must love the male lead. I think it would have been a much more interesting show if there was ONE girl not in his family who was unmoved by his beauty and heroism. And Felicity, to me,…

I have zero interest in Oliver and Felicity. I would have preferred if they hadn't made them romantically involved. This notion that every girl on the show minus Thea (obviously) has to crush on Oliver is irritating. It would have been a much more interesting dynamic for Felicity to have had no interest in Oliver and…

She can sing?

More of us should probably give up the money. or in this this case at least, hire more black folks behind the scenes

This show has always really been most compelling when it deals with Mellie. This show doesn't have a clue who or what Olivia is, or what she wants. I find this incredibly frustrating and also telling.

I want it to be forthright about assimilation and race, but I also want it to be character driven. I think it's possible that the pilot - which was too on-the-nose and not in a way that questions assimilation but says "hey - go for it!" - was a bait-and switch. for what tho? i don't know

I cosign all of this, esp. this ban on Mad Men slander

I think his voice is serviceable at best. I don't think his music is terribly well-constructed. But yes, he can dance.

I don't know that a female artist could really come back either. But i'm still stuck on the opening graphs that cast Brown as talented. I … don't know how one thinks that.

Jensen was magnificent in that last scene. He's remarkable in that role, but it's nice to be reminded just how true that is every once in a while

I disagree about the young brother in the lead. I thought he underplayed things in a way that sold his incredulity and his zeal to right a wrong. The moment at the end when he shot dude point blank was beautifully played.

Sorry. I would say Caroline or Katherine over Damon.

I am SO here for how they don't pretend that the black actors are raceless like so much "color-blind casting" nonsense. That Jefferson stuff was magic!

I'm not entirely sure I need to have a moral center as we normally think of it, because I think each of the Originals is sufficiently three-dimensional that I don't think of them as purely "bad" or "amoral".

Kudrow chews scenery? I thought she did a great job of finding the character and totally eliminating any Phoebe-esque mannerisms.

I really love this show but I remain thoroughly perplexed with its inability to make Laurel work as a character.

Personally - I thought killing Killian was a waste of a potential long-term Big Bad, even though I get that it got us to understand something fundamental about John and makes him a more complicated protagonist.