DearEvette

I loved this episode. Even though I am thoroughly upset that Khlyen is dead because I loved his brand of anti-hero in all of this and Rob Stewart is just a fine looking man so i will miss the hell out of him. But this felt like a Killjoys episode. Something I can't say about a lot of the episodes this season. Khlyen came through with both critical information and solution and brought the emotion for the crew. And of course there was Fancy. These two immediately injected some adrenaline into the episode, which begs the question why were they so under utilized this season? Why didn't Dutch & Co hook up with Fancy and Khlyen much earlier and work together sooner? All the revelations in this one episode could have easily been expanded to multiple episodes. Heck we could have had an entire flashback episode of Khlyen's experiments, how it affected his team and actually showed Aneela's descent into madness. Instead we had to sit through an episode with a man who lived too long, a bunch of missing kids in a deserted school, a spooky bug hunt, D'avin's bartender girlfriend an so on. And in the end what did they actually contribute to this ending? I did love the episodes with Pawter's family because it tied in well with what Delle was up to and it gave a much needed glimpse of the world of the Nine. But otherwise, everything else felt like treading water. Outside of the awesome premiere and a couple of other episodes, this season really was a big disappointment for me. I hope next season is better.

I like how each episode seems to be about examining a particular character, either their background or filling in pieces about the character. This time it was Android's turn. Sure not a lot of forward movement on overall plot, except of course the stuff with Four and hinting rather largely that the Raza may soon be involved with the fate of his planet. And the genesis of the virus in the first place. Where did it really come from and what was the real purpose for it beyond the possible destruction of Android? But Zoie Palmer really killed it in this episode. Nice nuanced portrayal there. As Android she continues to show how she's developing beyond just her robotic programming, but she's doing it in increments. When she is dreaming in that fab house with her boyfriend, she still isn't quite human, not like when she had the chip. She continues with the mechanical mannerisms of the android, but softened up just a little. Then as the Red Android she is completely robotic, nerveless, but with just a hint of AI menace that hovers under all portrayals of AIs, but you aren't quite sure is real or not. Until of course she tips right over in the end. So yeah, well done by her! I am liking the running gag of Two saving Three's life. Especially since Three is the one that gave him the most grief after they broke out of the prison. Two hours next week!

I agree, I loved Killyjoys last season, but man it bums me out how i think S2 has lost its way some. Meanwhile, I think season 2 of DM has improved on S1 so much. Also DM I am liking how DM is handling romance/sex. It is there (how could it not be with a group of good looking, healthy people all living together in each other's space) but it doesn't overpower the plot.

I agree with this. I don't mind romance in a show. I like romance. I especially like them when I see a couple that would be great together. But in a show that isn't ostensibly a romantic drama or a soap, allowing romantic angst to overshadow or even .... flavor strongly... important plot developments can be annoying. Sometimes it can work if incorporated well and sometimes it doesn't. I think in this case it doesn't. I am finding all the relationship stuff a little overwrought, tbh and get impatient with all the agita.

Last year I lovedKilljoys and was rather meh on Darkmatter. Mainly because DM had a darker tone and I like my space opera to be a little lighter with more zing. But I've done a 180 this season. Killjoys had lost some of its verve and honestly I feel like the season long arc has gotten twisted in on itself. Meanwhile DM has injected a bit more humor and their overall story feels tighter, more cohesvie. Last season I enjoyed KJ more this season I am enjoying DM more.

I had no idea it was even on until I decided to check out twitter. And then I followed only on twitter just to see what the buzz was. So I tuned in just in time to see Beyonce and Rihanna's 2nd and 3rd set. So glad I did! I enjoyed those performances. Went to bed right after 'Bitch Betta have my Money' was too tired to watch more and honestly it was enough just to see Bey do her thing. Had to cut away a couple of times. I have a soft spot for Kanye, but no, not even that would make me listen to him give a free-form speech for minutes on end. And I had to change the channel when Britney came on. Given how much they were completely hyping her, there was no way she could deliver up to expectation esp. given that she performed right after Beyonce. Poor thing. Seriously, Bey is at the top of her creative form right now, Britney would have had to have been absolutely spectacular to follow that and not invite comparisons. So no, I had to cut away for a bit. Maybe it is just the folks I follow on twitter (I follow lots of authors and WOC actors, activists) but I got a lot of 'Damn, I feel old' and 'Who are these people?' LOL. I also experienced second hand embarrassment for Key and Peele just for the few segments I saw. Man they bombed hard! And it is a shame because those two are legitimately funny.

Oh man, I did not like this episode. Yeah, I don't like the fact that Pawter died. She grew on me. I do think her role this season felt a little weirdly amped up and her romance with Johnny felt a little insta-love. But still i liked where they seemed to be taking her role. But then they killed her. And as much as I like Delle as a villain, she has gotten positively mustache-twirly which always turns me off. Last season the show did a good job of building the world and showing the differences between the quad planets and creating relationships between everyone with each successive episode. Now this season seems to be narrowing that with each episode. Is Delle that bad ass that no one else in any other family is worthy to challenge her, is onto her, isnt already doing their own similar thing? You'd think someone would have copped to her after that genetic bomb thingy from last season. Pawter was positioned to be that person to really challenge her, and given the glimpse we saw of their girlish rivalry it would have been great to watch that power struggle unfold. So it is a shame they went the direction they did. Instead of delicious political rivalry we got shocking!death! And God, i hate that Jelco has become such a cockroach. Will nothing get rid of him? Also Khlyen and Fancy and level 6 are so central to Dutch's big mystery and yet they are MIA for many episodes. Instead we get thrown random walk on characters each episode that disappear just as quickly. I would have not thought it could happen with such a fun and crazy show, but the last couple of eps have been rather depressing. Sure the quips are fast and furious, but the tone has gotten so dark.

But all that sweaty sparring over the past how ever many episodes was their build up. Dontcha know? That was - ha ha - fourplay. Seriously, it did make me sit up and say "well, Hello!" when the show started with just those two. I like them as a couple. I like how Dark Matter does romance overall so far. It doesn't try to make romance part of the show but instead acknowledge that a group of prime adults all stuck together will probably result in some sexy times. And allows that to be an element of the show, but not necessarily a focus. Yeah, after he shot him, I was like "Behead him! Behead him!" His nanites will probably fix the hole in his head and he'll be ready for revenge soon. One of the things I am liking about this season of DM is how it is injecting little bits of humor amongst the episodes. It is still about the Raza and their David vs. Goliath mission. But it doesn't feel and dark and fraught as it did last season. These two guys punched up the scene in an amusing way with just their body languages. How they wilted in unison when faced with Two. Or their defensive posture when she demanded their retinas.' Also "House of Frying Daggers." Ha. Great name for a Chinese take-out place. I enjoyed this episode a lot. Mainly because it was nice getting some more back story on Two, the complications it set up with the black goo, Wil Wheaton's character (of course this isn't gonna be his last appearance), and Four's story, the continuing forgiveness arc of Six by Three. So it packed a lot in and kept the momentum going.

I don;t know why, but thinking of Regina King on Southland made me think of Tracy on Rookie Blue. Also a single mother with a deadbeat ex. The only one of the rookies with a kid. She did get a nice love interest though with Det. Jerry, but then they went and offed him. Then she started up with Steve who in the end was a dirty cop. Between her role as stalwart single mom, her unlucky love life and her rapidly disappearing screen time, she couldn't catch a break.

Oh yeah, I just thought it was cool how you kinda knew which universe you were going to be watching based on the color scheme/scientific breakthroughs flashed during the credits. Also on the TWOP boards someone actually deciphered all the glyphs they showed each episode and figured out that episode's word. I really ate that up like a biscuit. Added another layer to watching the show.

Once in awhile Fringe would bust out some context specific opening credits. They did an 80s flashback epsiode and the opening credits were 80s retro. And then when the show started talking place in the alt universe the color of the opening credits changed. The regular universe was blue but if the ep was gonna take place in the alt. universe it was red. And then when they started doing things with the timelines, those credits changed as well. Somebody compiled the different ones here. I also like the theme song. So very much perfect for the show.

That is next on my list. So stoked for this!!

Can. Not. Stand. Amy. Schumer. She is unfunny, smug and bloviates about her rad girl feminism but just comes off as insincere. Lena Dunham. Same deal. Probably low hanging fruit, but Katherine Heigl. I like Dule Hill and would love to watch any show he is in, But she is in it with him and and in my personal calculus of which weighs more, my dislike of her or my like of him, she wins. Megyn 'Santa Claus is just white' and ' Maternity Leave is a welfare-state entitlement until I need it' Kelly. Katherine McPhee. I barely gave her notice until her terribleness spewed all over Smash.

Then it must really be bad that they are choosing to fire him. He's generally considered the star of the show, and shows tend to protect their money makers. If they are outright firing him and not circling the wagons to play this down, then I would venture to guess that must mean something even worse than a kick went down or there were more incidents than just this one.

Doing a comfort re-read of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series. Miles is one of my favorite fictional characters hands down.

The Outsiders has Sally Ann and Hasil. Is Into the Badlands cancelled? Cuz Veil and Sunny are a couple.

But I would contend that no one in the history of casting the show or watching the show has ever given any of these brown contestants higher than even odds of even making the final five let alone winning. They are cast for 'on paper' diversity and not really because they have a real shot at winning. I would take a guess that if someone were to splice together all scenes where the black contestants got quality on screen face time with the bachelor or bachelorette we'd probably only get about a two hour running time total. And I am being generous. And this is over 20 seasons. I stopped regularly watching after the Charlie O'Connell season (now that was a shit show!) but have kept up with news around the show as a pop culture voyeur. I pretty much just assumed the POC were cast as tokens and kept in the background until they could be comfortably eliminated without causing undue commentary. I was surprised to learn that most years the black female contestants have been eliminated within the first three episodes. So yeah, the two hour thing might be very generous. There were four seasons straight where there wasn't a single black contestant on the Bachelor. Also, non-black POC get farther. Here is an article that looks at only black contestants Here is an analysis that looks at all POC But even so, i am still in agreement with @ribboninthesky1 given a lot of competing pressures a POC bachelor would have and how ABC has colossally botched the whole issue, it feels like that ship needs to keep sailing.

I dunno, the Bachelor is such a shit show in so many ways I honestly don't know if I'd want to see black & brown folks up in there. it reminds me of an interview that Jonathan Franzen just had where the interviewer asked him if he'd ever consider writing a novel on race. He said no because he had never been in love with a black woman. To which I say, Please, Jonathan, just stay in your lane. We are good with you writing what you are already writing (not that I read it). But, you do you! So I kinda am there with The Bachelor at this point. But I do think Dungey's remarks are just a load of Malarkey. You could literally pluck a POC from somewhere and create a new Bachelor. That is how it was done in the early seasons. Heck they had celebrities (Charlie O'Connell) and athletes and a frickin' European Prince. This habit of bringing back a Bachelorette reject has only been in place in the in the last five or six years and that is not even half of the live of show. They had one cycle where they had two bachelors at once competing. So they could literally change up the format any way they wanted to to give some pep to the franchise. My theory is that a black bachelor would by necessity require more than two black bachelorettes. And that in turn will make it a 'black' show. And even though ABC scores really well in diversity in their scripted shows, this is a reality romance show that appeals to a (I am betting) specific demographic that they are a little afraid to alienate with a too much melanin tipping point.

Ha! I love that this is still brought up some eleventy-twelve pages and a whole year later!

Makes sense, I suppose. It is justt weird it wasn't mentioned at all given that last season, iirc, that her addiction was part of what led to her exile. I am fuzzy and too lazy to look it up but didn't she botch a surgery while she was high? It sounded like a bit of a retcon that her mother seemed displeaeed that she was a doctor at all, not just one who brought disgrace on the family due to her addiction.

I liked this one. It was nice seeing the inside of Pawter's dysfunctional family and seeing some of the social norms of the Nine. I got the impression the weasely fiance had been Pawter's boyfriend before she got kicked out of the family and then moved onto the sister. He was playing the long game, infiltrate the family and take it over or destroy it. His cover was obviously to act like a buffoon. Had me fooled until he mysteriously disappeared. Looks like we'll be seeing the Black Root soon and I am interested in how all of Khlyen's schemes will come to fruition. Altho who is that blonde bartender? Is she D'avin's next girlfriend? She just seems so random. The show shouldn't even try to do romance because the forays into relationships all feel rather random and not well thought out. You don't know who is going to be making fluttery eyes at whom from one week to the next. And finally, what happened to Pawter's drug addiction? Wasn't the drug she was addicted to so terrible that it couldn't be kicked but you had to keep taking it in manageable doses? What did I miss?

I think it would be a really gutsy move on the part of the show if One/Jake Corso is really dead with just that little fanfare. Like the show admitting, 'yeah, people die just that quick and senselessly'. It would be so counter to what a show like this would seem to do. I admit I do like Three much more this season. Mainly because I think the actor taps into to some smart lighter acting moments. Last season he was just mean-angry now he's kinda funny-angry. I also think Nyx is some sort of genetically enhanced human. And I do think the show is going to pull the trigger on her reveal since they are making it plain people are noticing. And finally, I liked the foray into humaness with Android, but I want her to realize that it isn't what she wants to be all the time. Treat it like a nice pair of shoes that she liked to put on and show off, but they kinda uncomfortable and it is a relief to also take them off at the end of the day. So it is something she can put on and take off (sparingly) as the crew needs her skills.

Objectively 'Cowbell' is not funny. Jimmy Fallon couldn't keep it straight and everyone was so obviously reading from cue cards. But I do admit that there is something about Will Farrell with the moth eaten beard and his gut hanging out from under a shit-brown shirt jiggling around hitting that cowbell that startles a laugh out of me once in awhile. But yeah, I don't quite get the massive love for it.

That episode is what sold me on Community. I watched the first few eps the first season and thought it was stupid and didn't pay attention again, until I watched this episode. I laughed so hard that I went back and watched all of Season 1. I still laugh watching this scene. Basically Troy crying is comedy gold. i also Troy screaming. This scene is fantastic pay off made funnier because of the rest of the scenes that precede it:

I wonder how closely the show will follow the events of the movie now that is seemingly is catching up to the events of the movie with casting Rihanna as Marion. Marion's appearance in the film is ten years after Norman had already killed his mother. And Marion is basically an embezzler (a rather inept one really) who ends up at the motel while on the lam. Can't help thinking of Bitch Betta Have My Money' (heh), But if they follow even loosely the plot of the movie and plan to end the series with Norman committed then it is the people who come looking for Marion that eventually causes him to get caught. If that is the case I could envision a multi-episode arc but the iconic knifing not being the finale.