DearEvette

Me too. He gets this look. Like after he beat-stabbed that man-bun guy at Hilltop and then stood up all blood spattered and looked around everybody who had horrified looks on their faces and said "What?'. He had that same look just now when he let that walker loose. That is a great Rick look.

I am not gonna lie. I am with Rick. You can't trust anybody. Also Daryl stealth killing off of Dwight's intel is pretty cool.

Did Carole just give Tara's twizzler and "Oh for fuck's sake" look?

Rick is doing his version of a St. Crispin's Day speech. Bless his heart.

Oooh, was it Season 1? Season 1 was kinda bad. It centered on the Hawks -- two of the most charisma free people ever on tv. Also Vandal Savage was such a terrible villain. Go straight to S2. Sooo much better. It hit its stride, the big bads for the season are great. And the show got a great sense of humor.

Yeah, this was my take. In context it wasn't out of place at all especially followed up with the "i guess we've been to a lot of funerals" line. Even if Iris never met Laurel it isn't inconceivable to believe they went to her funeral to pay respects to friends and family.

If you haven't seen it, I recommend Leverage. There are five seasons and Aldis Hodge plays the completely awesome computer Hacker Hardison. Unlike his character on Underground, he got to use his comic chops. Also speaking of Underground, Amirah Vann is doing a guest stint on How To Get Away With Murder. I loved her on Undeground. I adore her character on HTGAWM. I just love her! Have mad girl crush on her.

This was a 5-star perfect episode. Everything about it just hit. - The betrayals and counter betrayals were fast and furious - everyone was always one step ahead of everyone else, fantastic timing - OfAmy - Scully's pick up line - 'This bitch!' - 'I pity the child who has to sleep under this solar system' - Amy being all hardass and competitive 'Boring!' - The proposal was fantastic. Hats off to Andy Samberg he sold the nerves and longing perfectly. - His realization that he wanted to marry Amy was because of her outrage of a typo in the crossword puzzle. Again, Andy Samberg's face! You could see him saying "Yeah, I am a goner." This put it over the top for me. Again, a fantastic episode.

I really, really really wish Michaela would just tell Laurel to kick rocks. Laurel just gets worse each episode. What is up with her? I am so in love with Tegan that I will be so bummed if she is dead. Boss Bitch indeed. Connor's dads had a weird vibe for me. Felt not parental enough, I guess. Felt a little bit a little too buddy-like. Instead of Connor and Oliver being their son and his boyfriend, they were just younger gay male buddies. I dunno about Analise thinking that Michaela is looking for mother figures. It could be true. But it could be just as true that Michaela is looking for strong black female role models to emulate because she never had that in her life. WOC are often thirsty to see other WOC in positions of power and authority mainly because it is rarely shown and it is incredibly aspirational. Doesn't necessarily need to be a mother figure, just a powerful symbol of representation. I do however think it was very much a case of it takes one to know one considering Ana's own relationship with Wes and what he represented to her.

I thought parts of it were very funny. For instance, the spiraling out of control baby kidnapping scenarios and whether you should intervene if you saw a baby being kidnapped. "What if the baby was Hitler?" "What if you don't know the baby was Hitler, what if the baby was baby Oprah?" "What if the baby Oprah was being kidnapped by Beyonce?" That entire conversation plus the reactions of the listeners had me dying! Bonus when new girl said she was more of an Ellen person, everybody gave her the "we are not here for your Ellen over Oprah preference" faces. Also the security guard bit. But the rest with Dana and Jonah and the Sandra parts were uncomfortable to watch. Dana really felt like she was bullying. I normally like her overbearing personality but here I thought she went too far. Also the Sandra stuff went to kind of a dark place.

The "Chest Peckwell" thing was interesting because it was a he said, she said situation that the show never cleared up. He said they were arguing and he grabbed her arm, she freaked out on him. She said he grabbed her and she freaked out (flashing back to her DV) and whaled on him. In the end he ended up in the hospital with a brain bleed and asked for the cops because he wanted to press charges. But, infuriatingly (and what kinda made him more sympathetic to me than her) when the guy was in the hospital all bruised and beaten, Alex strong armed him and shamed him into not pressing charges claiming he didn't want to be the guy who was known as having been beaten up by a girl. And that he should never hit a woman (which it was never established that he even did) and if a woman hit him he should just take it or walk away. I 100% agree that nobody should be beating on anyone, man or woman. But I don't agree that a man doesn't have the right defend himself against assault just because the assaulter is a woman. I mean, reverse that and tell a woman that if she is being beaten that he should just "take it or walk away." Derek witnessed the little speech and was disgusted with Alex and said it was shameful what he just did.

Right? I mean, didn't Barry essentially stick a sort of epi-pen into Kilgore to get rid of his "virus"? (At least, that is what it looked like to me). While Barry was making lightning and distracting the guy, it would have been cool for everyone to look down and see that Wally (all but forgotten) had stuck him with the pin. Callback to what he did with the insulin shock girl.

Since he was basically a tech based/hacker villain he could have gotten back at them in so many ways that resulted in them being poor or if they still worked in tech, discredit them in some way so that their reputations are ruined in the industry. But, well, he decided to turn that one guy into Sriracha instead.

Motherboard of the month. ha!

Aw, that was fun. The therapy session was well done. The first half was humorous, especially enjoyed the rundown of all teh funerals they went to to explain the "stress" they'd been through. The second half had the more serious stuff. Neither thing was too over the top. Cisco had all the best lines all episode long. I especially enjoyed all his justifications for all the tech he put in Barry's suit as the meta-human guy was messing it. His line delivery was perfect. Poor Wally. First his hair is looking all perma-waved and then he was basically passed out while Barry saved the day. The scene of Barry catching the grenade shrapnel was great. Like last week's at the wind farm.

Aww RIP Mychael. I enjoyed that season on Project Runway. Mychael the model he used most often to walk his stuff, Nazri, were a great collaboration.

New show on SYFY called Superstition centers on a black family named the Hastings whose family business involves fighting witchcraft, occultism, end evil using arcane weapons and are supposed to be bad ass. Stars Mario Van Peebles as the patriarch. Looks like the pilot episode is on the SYFY on demand but the tv premiere is supposed to be Friday at 10:00 pm. I haven't seen it yet, but sounds interesting enough to check it out.

It is nice to see that they are fleshing out the rest of the cast from their mostly broad and horrible outlines introduced in the pilot. Claire and Glassman obviously have the most development and I like their respective relationships with Shaun. I liked that they showed Dr. Andrews teaching Shaun and Claire and actually seems to being showing a glimmer of a sense of humor in his banter with Shaun. I thought there had been a glimpse in the second ep that his character wasn't just the villain he was shown to be in the pilot and this seems to be the case. Jared came through with a good idea to prove that he isn't just handsome and dim (like he was appearing to be). But rather worthy of his inclusion in Melendez's team. Nice touch there. And Melendez, while still kind of a jerk, I like that the last two eps have shown that he treads a line where he does want to advocate for the patient but he isn't up in his feels about the person but is still perfectionist enough about the surgery to want to do well by them. On a funny (not really) note, for one horrified second I thuoght the tumor they took out of the mother was actually the baby's head. The angle of the camera made it look like they had lopped off the head of the baby. I was like, OMG!! And then I realized what I was seeing. LOL. I think I was just anxious for that family.

Sigh. One the one hand, I am so glad this is happening. This was a very good book and delves into a social-cultural area in the history of Af-Ams that a lot of people aren't aware of. There is a class divide amongst black folks as stark as there is amongst whites. I am sure that lot of people believe that the black wealthy all come from athletics or performing arts and are not aware that there also exists generations deep genteel wealth amongst blacks. My father's family could be categorized that way. Also the woman writing is a WOC and her biggest writing credits are Justified and Life, both of which were really well written shows. On the other hand, this is Fox. They have the tendency to really screw up great shows with lots of potential.

This totally cracks me up. My husband who is a major comic book nerd for years (his collection in boxes, sealed, temperature controlled... that type of nerd) couldn't watch the show because he'd get sooo frustrated that slow people could out maneuver Barry in cases when Barry's speed shouldn't have allowed for it. I laughed so hard because last season my husband actually watched an episode where Catilyn as KF ran out of a building and disappeared and Barry couldn't catch her. My husband got so mad and left in disgust. Everytime the opening came on where Barry would say "I'm Barry Allen, the fastest man alive" my husband would snark "shouldn't there be an asterisk there." I told him I think it is finally true this year!

Oh man, I forgot about Dr. Akopian (male). Akopian is an Armenian name so , yeah, felt a leetle unusual for an AA woman. Love the casting and the quick cut to the picture. It seemed almost as if they were telling us that Michael Hyatt wasn't available in a clever way.

I thought the Let's Generalize about Men song was perfect. Even my son who is exactly the wrong demographic for this show was arrested enough to stop and watch and laughed his ass off. Highlight of the ep. Second was British Josh. Such a restrained use of Vincent Rodriguez! I loved Paula's amazed line about him being a Laurence Olivier. Ha! And finally, I just kept getting a gigle out of Valencia's amazement that nobody would give her credit for suggesting suing Josh. "I must have died. When did I die?" The delivery was everything. So glad this show is back!!

I think that particular recipe of soap is so identified with the times in which they place that trying to reboot them now works against them. The name recognition isn't an advantage in this case. And resettling them now just doesn't work. Also think of how seasoned those original casts were. They had had impressive bodies of movie and tv work behind them when they came to these shows. They were able to infuse a lot of gravitas into the soapy camp that made it rise above a bit. The casts in these shows are barely watchable, their acting is so wooden. Not mention it just feels stale. There is still an audience for prime time soaps. Empire was huge ratings hit its first year, the likes of which network tv hadn't seen in 10 or more years. This is Us is a ratings champ too. But I think the audience is there but it has to be the right type of soap that resonates in today's cultural climate.

There is obviously a point sometime in the future where Dr. Jimmy Smits gets to know the K4. Frank knew to go to him and trust him enough with Laurel. But where are they? Michaela is obviously in a hospital of some sort in a maternity ward -- it still loos rather antiseptic and creepy, though. And is the 'He' she is referring to, the baby? (I am not ashamed to say I am hoping it is Simon, he obviously has a role to play this season and antagonists to the K4 don't fare too well, mortally speaking). She looks utterly shell shocked. It seems like she was present when whatever happened to Laurel happened.

Setting aside the Maggie/Jackson possible romance stuff... I did like the whole at home dinner thing. Seeing Richard and Catherine at home so casual. Catherine cooking (that seemed like a lot of asparagus for three people). Also the awkwardness of Richard and Maggie's relationship. They both acknowledge his paternity, but they've been very tentative about forging it into a real relationship. Maggie had never been to his home, which I found both realistic and a little sad. My hope (oh please or please oh please) is that even as they toy with this possible pairing, that in the end it serves as only the mechanism to finally integrate Maggie into Richard's life as a real daughter and thus she does realize that she sees Jackson more as family than a romantic partner. I see this coming up a lot. I am in the minority, I guess, in that I really don't think about the minutiae of child care. I just assume (in the back of my head because I am literally not even thinking about it) that her kids are being well taken care of and she manages their care like any other working person and we just don't see her with them during the time lapses on the show when obvious non-hospital stuff is occurring -- kinda like the time it takes everyday for people to do mundane stuff like eating, sleeping, shopping, dentist appointments, paying bills, shaving etc. I am totally fine with glimpses of them once in awhile just to let us know they still exist.