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11 on Supergirl Season 5, Episode 15 Review - Tough subject matterSupergirl is no stranger to tough topics and social justice. The entire, excellent, fourth season was all about how a hero like Supergirl could (and couldn't) fight an impassioned hate movement. This week, the show tackles a question that's been looming behind the show's latest hero, Dreamer. Meanwhile, J'onn and Alex hunt down a VR…
Villains can run the gamut from moustache-twirling evil to that-guys-got-a-point. Somewhere in there, there's the sympathetic villain. The one that, the more you learn about them, the harder it gets to blame them. That's Alice. The show has gone out of its way since the very first moments to paint Alice as, of course, dangerous…
DC's Legends of Tomorrow has turned into not just my favorite Arrowverse show but one of my favorite TV shows in general. When I found out last year that Brando Routh, who has played Ray Palmer on the show since its inception, was leaving, I was a little heartbroken. When Routh said recently that he…
Over eight years and almost 30 seasons of shows, the Arrowverse has had countless villains. While there have been a few misses over the years, the group of shows that we call the Arrowverse has brought some of the best DC villains to life with comics-perfect looks, great writing, and awesome effects. These are the…
Supergirl has been meandering all season. Despite having a Big Bad in the form of Leviathan since episode 1, the show has felt lost. It's a sharp contrast to the relative laser focus of season 4. Things seemed to get better after the Crisis on Infinite Earths ended, but it's only now that the show is…
Alright, Flash, enough already. Over on Legends of Tomorrow, the Time Idiots are dealing with revived villains. They're calling them Encores. It's been fun and silly. When The Flash brought back Mirror Master as a new character with better effects, I was stoked, and I'm still digging it. But now it's starting to feel like a crutch. Where Legends…
I never thought I'd say the sentence "I really enjoyed Wayne Brady as a villain." But here we are at the end of Black Lightning Season 3. After an explosive finale that ties up a ton of loose ends, I can say that this season was the best yet and that I'm deeply curious to…
While there was a time when Warner Bros. looked upon the Arrowverse as an inconvenience, squishing attempts to use characters they wanted to put into movies, the media giant has since acknowledged that the Arrowverse can do its own thing and is even willing to take part in it once in a while. Even so,…
"Wayne Brady makes for a compelling villain" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd write. It's 2020, though, and everything is weird; so here we are. Wayne Brady makes for a compelling villain. The penultimate episode of Black Lightning's third season brings as many dangling plotlines together as it can and gets us ready for…
It's easy to say that Flash is leaning too heavily on old villains following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, but if they're going to do it the way they're doing it now, I think I might be okay with that. The show has been a mix of old and new villains, remixed and tweaked, and…
James Gunn's The Suicide Squad wrapped filming on Friday, announced director James Gunn. Principal shooting for the film is over and done with. Now it's off to the editing room, and there's always the potential for reshoots. Gunn took to his Instagram to make the announcement and reflect on filming. "It was a hard, hard…
"I'm currently tracking Genghis Khan's whereabouts via his license plate" is the best sentence I've heard this week and I'm glad, as usual, that Legends of Tomorrow continues to deliver its unique and special brand of bad-news-bears heart. Sara's still out of town, so the rest of the Time Idiots continue to manage on their own.…
When I try to think back through this week's episode of Black Lightning, it feels like very little happened. That's probably because last week was a banger of an episode with a huge battle that took up most of the runtime and introduced an awesome new villain played by, incredibly, Wayne Brady. This week is the…
For some, retro means 1970s clothes, 1980s music, or a certain 1990s aesthetic, but for Batwoman it's all about Kate Beckinsale movies. This week, Batwoman asks the question "what if vampires wore silky trenchcoats?" Spoilers follow for Batwoman season 1, episode 13, "Drink Me." "Drink Me" This week is what we call an "off week," where a…
If Birds of Prey was a story written by Harley Quinn, then the DC Universe show Harley Quinn is the world straight through her eyes. This is not a comics-accurate interpretation of your favorite characters; If that's what you're looking for, run the other way (screaming, probably). If you want to know how Harley Quinn sees Clayface,…
A television episode designed to celebrate a show's 100-episode run should feel like cheap fanservice. Not that it's supposed to, but rather that episodes like these often do. Instead, the episode we got is one of the best of the season, if not the best. The writers cleverly used the idea of looking back at…
When last we left our hero, Iris West-Allen was banging her hands on the wrong side of a mirror as her evil twin lovingly hugged her husband. This week, the focus shifts further off Barry, giving Iris time to explore this strange dimension. On the outside, master detective Ralph Dibny finally tracks down Sue Dearbon.…
The writers of Legends of Tomorrow have a special talent that seemingly no other show in the Arrowverse can replicate; over and over, it manages to be utterly silly and yet offer meaningful character development and good emotional beats. It does this over and over. I know by this point that it's not a fluke. This…
A month ago, Supergirl gave us an episode titled "Bottle Episode." That episode unleashed the fully-powered Brainiac 5 into the world. Now, two episodes later, we have an actual "bottle episode" of sorts. The DEO is in lockdown and our heroes have to hack their way out. Spoilers follow for Supergirl Season 5, Episode 12, "Back from the…
Following the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Batwoman found herself living in a new world. Putting aside the presence of Kryptonians and other aliens, the weirdest moment for Kate happens when her sister Beth--not Alice--walks through her door. The two quickly figure out that Beth is a remnant from another Earth destroyed in the Crisis,…
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