Will Scandal Cheat Death? Who Will Bates Kill? Too Much Mad Megan? Did Peter Sabotage Wife? And More TV Qs
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Bates Motel, Justified, Arrow and Scandal!
1 | Crazy 12 Monkeys theory: Could Striking Woman be Jennifer Goines? Or related to her somehow? We can’t be the only ones who think there’s a resemblance, can we?
2 | When it comes to Grimm‘s Juliette, are you Team ‘Biest or Team Restore?
3 | Is Outlander‘s recent virgin-turned-newlywed Jamie Fraser the quickest study in the world or what?
4 | Once Upon a Time fans, does this pristine pumper look like the heart of a (glamored) Wicked Witch? Also, why would Regina have had Neal’s apartment keys? (And who paid Neal’s rent for the past year-plus? The same person keeping Walsh’s abandoned furniture shop from being seized?)
5 | Is it possible The Good Wife‘s Peter was behind the Democratic machine’s shocking derailing of Alicia’s State’s Attorney win? Also: Alicia’s gray-and-white “apron” suit — love or loathe?
6 | Did Revenge need to save some money and production time, hence this week’s stealth clip show?
7 | Seriously, Mad Men? You only have six episodes left and you devote one of them almost entirely to Megan and her brood ennuyeuse? And to borrow from HuffPo’s Maureen Ryan: How did Diana’s hair smell like shampoo at the end of a diner shift, and not griddle grease?
8 | Time to play teacher, Salem fans: What grade do you
give Mary on her doomsday diorama? And on a related note, how cruel is it that, the moment she has completed “the grand rite,” she’s given “the great task” to accomplish? What next, “the incredible chore”?
9 | After Bates Motel hooks up Dylan and Emma — and it’s clear that the show’s gonna go with them where it didn’t quite with Dylan and Bradley, right? — which of them do you think won’t survive Norman’s reaction? And did you think it was odd that the clerk at the boutique where Norma went on her retail-therapy binge swiped her credit card before even ringing up her purchases? What kind of ass-backwards check-out process is that?
10 | Despite what The Following’s Powers That Be have said about reducing the series’ violence, hasn’t this season felt more needlessly bloody and gory?
11 | Crazy deep as The Voice Season 8 field may be, would you bet a single dollar of your own money against teen sensation Sawyer Fredericks winning it all?
12 | Is Felicity currently a better character on The Flash than on Arrow? And given his science/tech love, were you expecting Ray to express more excitement about meeting someone with superspeed?
13 | Are iZombie Liv’s undead options, Blaine and Lowell, looking far more interesting than her human one (sorry, Major)? And did anyone suspect Major was in the body bag?
14 | Did Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s eerie little girl twist not catch anyone by surprise? And for someone so anxious to keep a secret, could Jiaying have perhaps staged a more private “family” dinner? Also, how does Raina sleep on her head of thorns?
15 | Were we the only ones that caught Community killing off Jonathan Banks’ character in Tuesday’s email hacking install- ment? (One of the lunch lady’s emails included the subject line “Buzz Hickey Memorial Services.”)
16 | Which Justified finale 
showdown was most intense: The Raylan/Boyd one that wasn’t, or Raylan and Boon’s mutually wounding face-off?
17 | Shouldn’t notorious NCIS prankster Tony have at least suspected that McGee was pulling a fast one, as “the face of NCIS”? And can Bishop try to dress a smidgen more badass, and leave the peg jeans at home, when storming Afghanistan?
18 | First, there was Oliver’s “I love you” to Felicity. Now, Roy’s “death.” Did you fall for Arrow‘s bait-and-switch (again)? Relatedly, since Thea just the other week beseeched Roy to run away with her, shouldn’t he have maybe invited her to flee town with him? (And in doing so saved her a brutal stabbing?) Finally, who thinks we’re bound for a scene where Ray breaks up with Felicity, saying,”It’s not you. It’s my spinoff”?
19 | Is Supernatural‘s Charlie a little too good at kicking butt considering her relative newness to the hunting lifestyle?
20 | Are you surprised Philip’s hairpiece on The Americans came out as quickly as it did?
21 | Didn’t the General Hospital scenes in which Silas granted Ava’s wish to die with dignity remind you of how amazing the ABC soap can be when it wants to?
22 | Just one week, ESPN? Seriously?
23 | In the Great Idol Showdown of 2015, are you #TeamQuentin or #TeamHarry? And now that we’re down to six singers, is it time to axe the Idol Twitter Save and simply eliminate the lowest vote-getter?
24 | Just how many studly operatives did Scandal‘s Rowan have lined up to hit on Olivia, er “Alex,” at the bar that night, had Russell not successfully reeled her in? And while it’s hard to imagine how anyone could’ve survived being stabbed 16 times in the chest and stomach, anyone else getting a strong “BS” vibe from Jake’s “death”?
25 | What enjoyment if any does Louie expect us to derive from the title character’s “relationship” with the dreadfully caustic Pamela?
Hit the comments with your answers — and any other questions you care to throw out there!
#2 Definitely Team Biest. Juliette finally became an interesting character. No longer a damsel to be rescued, she can more than take care of herself. I really like the new Juliette.
Ugh. While I can agree she needed some backbone, she’s becoming so unbearable to me. She’s being b****y just to be b****y. She’s not given Nick any opportunity to even attempt to deal with her change. Of course his first reaction would be shock and dismay. Let him process a little. RESTORE HER!
How about both? I would like for her to be a Hexenbiest so that she can help Nick and not be the damsel in distress but I want her to be like her old self, not mean. She does need to give Nick a chance to process this. She should know how it feels.
How about both? I would like for her to be a Hexenbiest so that she can help Nick and not be the damsel in distress but I want her to be like her old self, not mean.
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That’s what I want too.
Me too!
Same.
Me too!
Me too :) I want her to realize that the Biest makes being evil unnaturally easy, so it becomes something she must fight against. But I also think the push for her to face that struggle is the Captain and not Nick. Nick isn’t really striking the right tone with her either – he seems wimpy. Maybe he’s just so overcome with guilt he doesn’t know what to do. Or maybe he’s so goody-goody that he doesn’t know how to deal with someone, especially someone close to him, who is very grey with a willingness to embrace a little darkness when needed. Makes Juliet more like his mom actually
How about option #3 — Team DEAD?
^^^ yes. I’m new to Grimm and working my way through Season 3. I’ve never liked her character. I find her either whiny and annoying or nosy and overly helpful, trying too hard. I kept hoping she’d leave at some point since I think she’s not the right person for Nick.
I agree 1000%. They could kill her off and it would make no difference to me.
Yesssssssssss! Team Dead! She is horrible!
Juliette will be cured by the baby Adalind is carrying – that’s for sure with the unique blood line of Grimm/Hex.
Agree. Juliette was boring and annoying before she was turned into a ‘biest. It will be interesting to see where this takes her character.
14. AoS – I agree. If she wanted to keep it quiet that Skye was her daughter, why did they have a family dinner together?
Unless Skye called her Mom or she called her daughter, it is just a dinner. But it would have been better to keep it a secret, but glad Luke Mitchell is right in the thick of it.
#6- probably not considering that the production code is #23 of the season. Revenge usually has 22 episodes and ABC ordered the clip show hybrid to fill scheduling needs.
Of course Jake isn’t dead. There’s no way we could be that lucky. Seriously, this show has got so many plot holes, dumb red herrings, etc. I keep watching because I think it might just snap out of it, but I’m afraid it might be too far gone.
And ABC has already released production stills of Jake alive and “well,” so they’re clearly not trying to push a “Jake is dead” angle.
Just when I think Olivia can’t be more of a romance lame brain, she proves me wrong. No background check on Lover Boy? As for Jake, I doubt he would have been left alive. If he was, the shark just got jumped.
#2 – can there be another option? I was excited about Juliette going hexenbeist, but I’m hating Juliette going dark side. So I guess I’m Team Restore, if we can’t have a good Juliette hexenbeist. :(
#12 – NO! Hell no. I thought she was terrible on The Flash this week, and I usually love Felicity. :(
Felicity is best when she’s not with Ray. It’s so hard to watch. Makes me feel icky. 😝
It wasn’t just about Ray, although her oversharing about their sex life was the worst moment. (I was facepalming like Barry in the background.) I just thought she was written like a caricature of herself. Telling Ray about Barry, telling Barry about Laurel. The “mama’s been away from her keyboard for too long” comment. The very cheesy hacker battle. I just didn’t like it. *shrug* Mileage may vary.
It was a cutie episode. Filler, IMO. A way to break up Iris and Eddie. Rather lame really.
See I attribute that to pairing her with Ray (work and romantically) The beginning of the season she was fine. Even in the arrow/flash crossover eps. But the more she’s with Ray the more she’s become, like u said a caricature. I guess all the writers has brain aneurisms a third of the way thru the season.
19: When Charlie got back from Oz earlier in the season she explained that her and Dorothy were in a war to free the land from evil, perhaps that’s where the fighting skills were acquired
I thought the same thing, that she learned how to fight in OZ
#1: When I see Jennifer Goines, I see Ally Sheedy a la The Breakfast Club.
That’s what my wife and I said!
Woah! Community killed Buzz Hickey? I gotta watch the episode again – I love episodes where secrets come out during increasing frustration. Friends excelled at these episodes and as does Community. Thanks for pointing that out!
If that was Megan’s Mad Men swan song, I’m okay with her having an episode to herself. It was a good episode!
Agree. I know she hasnt been a favorite but as such a major character she deserved a complete wrap up. I love that we are having moments with the supporting players set around the core cast’s usual business.
I thought it was a really soggy episode. Like, slow and annoying and a big waste of time. I would’ve preferred Don get a note from his lawyer that the divorce was final, skipping the depressed waitress, nothing more of Sylvia or her husband, and a lot more Sally.
Yes Felicity on The Flash is so much more fun she’a old school Felicity not the whining one we have this season. Although this week’s interactions with Ray and Oliver were a little lighter.
4: I guess this Zelena twist was an afterthought. I actually liked it, but the things you said are so true. They should have worked more on it. Oh well.
6: It was announced a long ago that Revenge got an extra episode that is a clip show. So it will be 22+1 special this year. (Compared to the usual 22.)And actually I was afraid of how the clip show will work out, but it was great. They did it very well.
13: You’re totally right. And she would also be cool with Ravi IMO. But Major is actually ok too. I wouldn’t mind any couple on my new favourite iZombie.
I agree that the Zelena twist was more of an after thought .. Once (pun intended) they saw how well received the character was last season, I think they were looking for a way to bring the actress back.
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Ironically, for a show that time jumps frequently within an episode, OUAT has more than their fair share of continuity problems. It can be distracting if not wholly perplexing.
Major’s a nice guy but a little bland, I like her zombie choices more actually
9. The real person the character of Norman is based on, Ed Gein, supposedly killed his brother and faked a hunting accident, so I guess… both. I seriously think Emma isn’t gonna survive the show either…
19. I’m assuming Charlie learned her butt-kicking from Dorothy during her year (or more?) in Oz. Time is different there, after all.
5. I actually thought Alicia’s suit WAS an apron at first. Actually I spent so much time trying to figure out what that “outfit” was that I couldn’t focus on what was being said.
7. Any Megan is too much Megan for me. It’s nothing against Jessica Pare, I just could never connect with that character.
21.GH can still be amazing when it wants to be. The 52nd anniversary ep and this storyline are prime examples, but then they show crap like the NuKiki/Morgan sabotage and I want to poke my eyes out.
#24 if Jake lived after being stabbed that does it for me ,I’m out
7. I think that’s the last we’ll see of Megan. I never get the hate. I was more disappointed with the whole Diana thing. Way too late in the game to introduce a new side character.
14. I hope they take the entire Afterlife story and throw it in the spinoff. I simply do not care.
#9 Dylan Emma or Caleb one of them will be dead by the seasons end
10. No. I totally disagree with the notion that it’s been more “needlessly” violent and gory. It’s still The Following, so of course there will be blood, but I think it’s totally relevant. If you haven’t noticed, the new villain (Michael Ealy) only kills when he feels like he has to. There’s no showy “killing for the sake of killing” type stuff. I would say that if you think there’s more, you may not be paying attention to the other parts of the show. Just my two cents.
4. Once Upon a Time is horribly written. This Wicked Witch twist was just a lame way to undo the corner that the writers wrote themselves into.
12. Yes! Felicity is so much better on The Flash. But then, every character has been severely damaged this season on Arrow…
14. The family dinner scene was horribly written. Now all of the Tomorrow People are going to know about Skye being the daughter.
18. It was really awkward for Thea to not be there when Roy said goodbye. I can understand Laurel not being there. She has a lot of work to do at the DA’s office with the bat-sh** crazy things that the police are doing lately. But Thea should have been there. The only reason for her to not be there was so that the writers could get her alone in the apartment where she could fight Ra’s way better than her brother did.
19. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. Charlie is a fanfic character. My theory is that Becky found Chuck’s computer and it somehow allowed her fanfic to become real, because Charlie is just so out of place on the show, and she’s constantly written into situations where she doesn’t belong. She, like any fanfic character, is just a way for the writer (Becky) to put themself into the story, often making the real main characters look pathetic in the process.
Also about Once Upon a Time, wasn’t it a little strange that the moral of this episode (which is targeted toward children) was that Robin should give up his honest life as a tavern owner and become the thief that he was always meant to be?
When I was a kid, they usually tried to steer children in the opposite direction!
Yes, it is true.. But OUAT is not a kid’s show. It is most definitely a TV show about “fairy tales with a twist” geared for adults.
Agree OUAT is after 6, so it’s not a children’s show, the tomorrow people comment was funny though ;)
#2 teamkillheroffalready. Shes the worst part of the show
Yes! And a horrible actress IMO
#22 isn’t that called a vacation? I guess college can’t teach class. You either have it or you don’t and it looks like she doesn’t.
12. No. She’s a great fit on The Flash, but if she were on it all the time, she’d get old really fast. Arrow would be too dark without her.
5. The Good Wife – I just can’t believe we had to go through this election storyline the entire season just to have this happen. It hasn’t been my favorite season by far.
12. The Flash & Arrow – I think I’m enjoying the characters appearing on The Flash because I’m finding that show more enjoyable. Not as many flashbacks (no pun!) as Arrow and, while they are still dealing with saving their city, there is a lighter side on The Flash.
16. Justified – The finale was awesome in every way. The final scene, the final words, so well done.
17. NCIS – Regardless if Tony should have caught on or not, it was so funny to watch. :)
23. American Idol – Personally I think Quentin behaved like a child. It is a competition, they are all making friends, they are all seeing someone go home, that is the game. He looked so sour and petulant standing there I think it may have hurt him. Harry calling him out so that Quentin could clarify what he was saying might actually have saved him at this point.
13: Omg I love iZombie and Lowell is much better than “saint” Major who may be dead…or not!
18: That last frase just amazing, I would love to see her face if he did that line 😊
Major’s not dead ;), I don’t know about Saint, I agree he is rather bland and I prefer Lowell
#4 so many questions about this. Yes that image of a heart looks pretty pure, unless it was glamoured as well. But we know how to kill the wicked witch… Just need the snow queen.