Not just the return of a Voyager alum, but guest star turns from two “Star Trek” doctors, with Enterprise’s John Billingsley as Cambis. When they started talking about the son working at a medical school I was hoping for a meta joke about it, or maybe even Gates McFadden or Alexander Siddig showing up at the very end…

The Vulcans of all people sanction fights to the death for marriage disputes. And I don’t think the Andorians and Tellarites are squeaky clean either. So it’s not as if the Federation is the bastion of purity “Star Trek” wants us to think it is. Now, maybe they are the exception to the Federation standard because they…

So, does the Orville have the equivalent of a janitor who has to clean up the environmental simulator when it gets sticky?

Isaac’s question about how the doomed society was deciding who should survive echoed Thanos’ quest in Infinity War to me. Not that the objectives were equal, but the notion of which members of a society best represent it. In Infinity War, Thanos makes a speech about sacrificing half of a planet’s population for the…

When the recon Dalek kept mentioning informing the Dalek fleet about invading Earth, I was reminded that classic Who did a Dalek invading Earth episode, though I haven’t watched it. Though that invasion apparently took place in 2164 or so (ie 200 years after the episode aired) and was uncovered by the first Doctor.…

I get that linking The Weinstein Company to the Good Will Hunting ornament helps sell the joke, but it should at least be pointed out that Good Will Hunting was a Miramax movie from 1997 and The Weinstein Company wasn’t formed until 2005. Probably just should have said “Greetings from Harvey Weinstein”

The reference to Nolan and Burton as the street names was obvious but cute. If they wanted to throw in a Schumacher reference I wonder what they would have named after him.

“Wait ... Barry and Oliver hallucinate each other’s fears, even though they have their own memories?”

Nice touch to use bits of the 1990 Flash theme to close out the crossover tag.

The Netflix sketch just played as weird to me as they have been on a spree of canceling shows lately (particularly content they don’t own but have been licensing from other studios, such as Daredevil). So the timing of this sketch was just off. The concept was funny and the show parodies were fine, but it would have…

The best was the one with Al Gore playing Willy Wonka’s brother (or cousin or some relative) who was also his accountant who assumed he would inherit the factory and chews out Wonka for just handing over the family business on a whim to a complete stranger with no experience running a large company.

So, the fact that Janet can pull the souls of four living people into her void by killing their mortal bodies should imply at lot about how the afterlife works on this show.

Not to mention that Mindy’s orientation video shows an actual Good Place person.

So, to echo Chidi at the end, they just killed the four humans again. That’s kind of a big deal, I would think. Janet basically disintegrated them to hide their soul forms in the Void.

The Brits also had a habit of conceiving shows like this as set narratives with a clear cutoff, and not blindly pumping out more seasons just because it proved popular. What was the British version of The Office, like 15 episodes? It’s why they called their seasons “series,” as each one was more of a self-contained…

This show was never as good as the hype. Certainly not worthy of its Emmy nominations for Best Drama Series (the acting awards were mostly warranted). I suspect it only survived because it was one of Netflix’s first original series, which fueled the hype, driven mostly by the big names attached to it. The binge nature…

Such a clever way to keep a cast member around despite the story requiring her character off the show. A couple of developments sell the twist: first, that she was actually gone for the first few episodes, and second, that Constantine was the one that froze her in that form, specifically because Amaya has no…

Supergirl laments the strains on democracy caused by reactions to Marsdin’s deception, yet openly advocates Marsdin stay in office in complete defiance of the Constitution, simply because Marsdin’s politics are more agreeable to Supergirl’s agenda. In other words, people just need to shut up and recognize that this…

And it’s Bruce Boxleitner. You don’t cast him to play the president just for a one-off.

Not saying any of the hatred would be completely justified, but that the show seems to act as if the anti-alien sentiment is completely out of the blue, as if there wasn’t an alien invasion. Like you said, the show is simply incapable of the subtlety required to explore the metaphor in a way that makes sense beyond a…