Powerless: You've Got a Friend (Whether You Like it Or Not)
Superheroes are a lot like professional athletes: they are in better shape than 99% of the population, they sign autographs and pose for pictures, people will show up to watch them exhibit their...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: Let’s Get Kraken!
This week on Once, Storybrooke finally gets a new bar! Snow White gets wasted! Emma becomes that cliché lady who pours her heart out to a bartender! Aladdin and Jasmine learn that sometimes all...
View ArticleHomeland: It's happening here
Homeland has a history of penultimate episodes that deliver, and R for Romeo is no exception. Keane confronts her tormentors, Quinn gets revenge, and Saul is vindicated, but is it all too little, too...
View ArticleThe Americans: Role play
More than any other show, The Americans lives and dies by the adage that the world’s a stage, and we each play a lot of parts. It’s not just the Jennings who move effortlessly...
View ArticleRiverdale: Drink that maple syrup Kool-Aid
As ridiculous as it sounds, the town of Riverdale was founded on the Blossom’s sweet, sweet maple syrup business. Everyone consumes Blossom maple syrup, even the Coopers. I was hoping there would be a...
View ArticlePOWERLESS: Wayners and Losers
A visitor approaches Emily’s desk and asks her to validate his parking. She tries to explain that she’s the senior vice-president of research and development and thus above petty administrative tasks...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!
It’s the end of this show as we know it, folks. The biggest of Big Bads has finally arrived to battle the Save-iest(?) of Saviors! But first, we’ve got some CGI spiders to mutilate,...
View ArticleHomeland: Deathcar for cutie!
Previously on Homeland, President-Elect Elizabeth Keane sings “And I’m telling you, I’m not going,” as the lamestream media asks if she’s quitting on account of her son’s being a coward according to...
View ArticlePowerless: The feminist and the furious
I said in my last recap that I would love to see Green Fury become a recurring character since Crimson Fox has been moved up to the big leagues and I was really digging...
View ArticleRiverdale: Party like an angsty teen
In the aftermath of Jason’s murder, Jughead notes that the town has realized that there is no such thing as control, only chaos. Intercut with scenes of our clean-cut All-American teen leads are scenes...
View ArticleThe Americans: Feelings (are such real things)
This week on The Americans: Elizabeth goes to a shrink, Philip has more flashbacks, Mary Kay comes a calling, Gabriel makes like ET, and while Paige reads a book on Marx, Oleg waits for...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: The Quicker Potion Fixer Upper
There were so many potions used this week on Once to clean up certain dangling plot items, it was hard to keep track of them all. Let’s see, we had: sleeping curse potion, memory...
View ArticleThe Americans: You gotta believe
Which imaginary boyfriend will get Paige’s rose? Will it be Jesus or Karl Marx? Gabriel isn’t making it easy. In their long-awaited meeting, he love bombs her with a Karl Marx quote about sacrifice...
View ArticlePowerless: Would My Life Suck Without U?
Apologies for the late recap, but I was re-watching the best NBC workplace comedies from the past five years—The Office, 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, Superstore—and I think I’ve finally...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: You can’t keep a bad witch down!
Just what Storybrooke needs, another “reformed villain.” The town suddenly seems overrun with them. Jiminey Cricket is going to need to start a new support group soon… maybe even a halfway house. This...
View ArticleRiverdale: Homecomings and goings
Welcome back (again) to Riverdale! These random CW hiatuses are killing me and I don’t understand the logic behind them. Are they trying to drag out the final episodes? Accommodating standardized...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: A Black Fairy Tale
This week on Once, Rumple continues his trend of contemplating doing the right thing for about five seconds, before effing up again. (But hey, major points for character consistency!) Also this week,...
View ArticleThe Americans: Immersion is a euphemism
Nobody gets killed or gets laid (except possibly off-screen), but the relentless sense of dread, burn-out, and general malaise continues. How much more of this can we take? Philip gets back from saying...
View ArticleThe Americans: Anticipation
Henry’s narrating the “previously on.” Does that mean he’ll finally be important in the story? Probably not because this is a show that loves to lead you down a path, which inevitably turns out...
View ArticleRiverdale: How to get away with murder
I don’t grade episodes that I recap, especially if the season is still airing. I firmly believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and when you only see the...
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