Jeez, the snowflaky reactions of straight white men because not every single episode and narrative centres them - anything deviating from that priority is apparently "woke". Get over yourselves, you egomaniacal bigots.
Anyway, another great episode that nicely expanded Ellie's backstory - bonus points for the Mortal Kombat II appreciation, too :nerd:
OK so the second act is being enjoyably batshit from the off.
Also, to the other commentors, kindly fuck off with your homophobia and idiotic "woke trash" dismissal - honestly don't see what was so 'woke' about this episode.
Besides, a decade in, you should know what you're getting with this show.
Oh man, I unexpectedly lost it when Rita landed safely in freedom and was reunited with Emily/OfGlen. It'll be interesting to see where things go next season for all the handmaids since I can't see how it won't be carnage/a lot of draconian punishments.
While the Whisperers are a cool idea, the more I think about them, the more they don't stand up to scrutiny. We've seen in previous seasons that to go undetected by the dead, people have to smuther themselves in guts thus implying the dead work on some sense of smell. The Whisperers don't do this, they merely pop on a dried out face of a dead person and somehow the actual dead are supposedly convinced the living person is a dead person. It's at the level of Superman hiding his identity by putting on a pair of specs.
Furthermore, I realise the show has been often criticised for lack of character development but, honestly, I couldn't give a shit about this Rosita/Gabe/Sadiq "love triangle with added baby". I think it does the greatest disservice to Rosita who, from what little previous development she's had over all these years, has always been a fiery character, so to see her potentially be made into some incredibly boring mother character is irritating.
I nearly rated this a 7 because it was a fun watch if you didn't pay too much attention to the detail. The best parts were definitely with Saru et al on the planet; the other parts felt shallow and drawn out with a lot of fairly vacuous action. A bit of a disappointing end to the season but on the plus side, at least we don't need to keep pretending that Michael isn't Discovery's leader. I just hope this doesn't mark the end of Saru's involvement, especially since we already lost Georgiou this season.
I do hope next season they focus on distinguishing the assorted crew members more because at the moment, outside of the more obviously senior officers, these assorted faces keep cropping up that all seem to have the same "happy NPC" personality.
As for all the people rating every episode 1s and 2s out of 10, bitching and moaning about alleged "bumming" and forced "diversity", you're 3 seasons in now and know what you're getting. Either accept this is what this particular Trek show is about and try and enjoy it by growing as a person, or find something else to do or watch - life is far too short. You'll feel better, I'm sure.
I don't have an issue with lowkey bottle episodes, which this definitely was, but there were such flaws in this general setup. Why would they leave June, a woman who has repeatedly shown herself to be rebellious and against everything Gilead stands for, left unsupervised with ofMatthew and her unborn child? Children are surely the most precious thing to Gilead, so to have no-one in the room with June seemed like a contrivance to allow her to do the things she did this episode.
Also, on a fundamental level, I don't understand how (what looked like) a gunshot injury to ofMatthew's shoulder rendered her brain dead.
This show is definitely on a bit of a messy downward spiral of late, which is a shame. It feels meandering with no overarching narrative direction. It's lucky the production values and cast are so terrific. Hopefully things will turn around for the season's closing episodes.
Much as I love this show, I will never understand people rating stuff before they've seen it. Currently unaired and yet already 7 people have rated it; really helpful, guys. >_<
Edit: 3 months after my initial comment and 13 people have now rated it before it's aired. FFS.
Another great season but this felt oddly anti-climatic for a season finale.
The end of this episode was a bit ridiculous, imo. Serena and June having an audible spat by the Lincoln Memorial, where the acoustics would surely help carry their raised voices to the 100s of gathered handmaidens and assorted soldiers/cameramen at the foot of the steps, stretched the level of believability somewhat.
Michelle Yeoh is just so damn good in every scene she's in. She was an excellent bit of casting. This was a really fun episode and so far I'm loving this season.
A typical wheel-spinning pre-finale episode that was pretty enjoyable. I'm sure many will hate her but I kinda enjoyed the new character Princess; she has a chaotic comic relief feel to her that I think is kinda needed amongst all the weekly moping and brooding.
While I agree with other comments that this season felt a little filler like, it was still great TV, so I find it ridiculous there are people seriously rating this 2/10 -- no way is this "terrible" TV.
Looking forward to season 5.
Was that ending just pure and utter fan service? Yes. Do I remotely care? No.
Terrific episode - I loved how it was almost like a mini horror film thanks to that creepy guy Villanelle met at the supermarket.
A great series with some terrific visuals and scares, it's just a real shame that they didn't quite stick the finale for me. The last half of episode 10 seemed to tonally shift in the wrong direction and I don't think it capitalised enough on the malevolent events and creepy spirits it had shown throughout the first 9 episodes, which were all excellent in my opinion. Always a shame when the payoff doesn't meet the build up and I feel that's what happened here, even though I thoroughly enjoyed it overall.
In contrast to most of the other comments, I thought this was a really great episode. I loved the whole sequence of developments with Michael, Saru, and Hugh on the planet; terrific graphics for the creature, too. I enjoyed the protective but glitching computer holograms that our group kept encountering.
My only real gripe with this episode was the solidifying of Tilly's recent promotion, which still doesn't really sit right with me bearing in mind all the other higher grade officers on board Discovery. I know she's proven herself to be a capable and competent member of the team but she doesn't have the nerve I would argue to be a good Number 1 - it's also why I think she doesn't really work in the mirror Terra universe. Don't get me wrong, I actually like her character/the actress but I don't think this development quite works; I would like to think it gets undone for season 4.
On a different note, I'm not quite sure what Adira's plan was beyond "potential suicide mission to bring more medication"; seemed a bit cavalier. Still, I'm excited to see how the story continues next week.
After a good run of episodes so far this season, this one was quite blah. I haven't warmed to this Adira character so I was disappointed that at the end of the episode, when given the chance to stay with the Trill, she returned to Discovery instead. I'm also not a fan of kid/young adult actors in general, so the fact this was an Adira-centric episode made it even less appealing to me, combined with the fact that she's a new character who I really don't care about...to say nothing about her boyfriend.
I hope this was just a blip in an otherwise good season. I did enjoy the scenes onboard Discovery, at least, but they were too few in number to make the episode a good watch.
Watchable because of the excellent cast but it definitely feels a shadow of its former self.
Good episode but it really made no sense to me that Octavia didn't shoot Madi at the end there - Clarke had said her goodbye and was ready to let Madi go...but then they all up and leave her "locked in" her own mind with nobody around to help her. I think it also undermined Clarke's emotional farewell and Octavia's noble gesture - the Shepherd having the code didn't change the fact that Madi was a medical lost cause and it was the humane thing to shoot her, especially as it would have delayed them by mere seconds. I can only presume that Madi is going to make a miraculous recovery otherwise it really was a dumb thing to abandon her like that.
Great episode....except it struck me as rather unbelievable that the suicide car at the end reached the bus despite a large amount of (supposedly trained!?) US troops shooting at it. It's not like it was a reinforced car, just a rust bucket.
I enjoyed the first half of this episode but the Big Bad of The 12 ended up being a total non-event of faceless nobodies, to say nothing of Villanelle being killed in the final minute.
Like others have said, the people behind this show squandered a terrific first season and an excellent cast to bring us a steep decline in quality. The small blessing is that it ended after 4 seasons rather than dragging it out for longer.
Sufficiently intriguing episode. I find it odd how they've restyled Princess and softened her quirkiness, which is a shame. I still like her (probably because of Paola Lázaro's likeable performance) but I feel they've made her more forgettable since they joined the Commonwealth.
This was quite a let down. So Dean battles countless demons, vampires, deities, literal God and the Devil...and he gets got by a rusty spike in an old barn?? I wouldn't say it was on the level of Game of Thrones bad; this finale was more a weak effort rather than terrible. Mind you, the final season has been a bit so-so, with the second half being particularly sub par. The concept of them all ultimately ending up in Heaven is a nice one, although arguably unnecessary for the show's finale; the fact they did this feels a bit "and that's that, guys, we're not having any spin-offs or films". Personally, I think they'd have been better off fleshing out and properly crafting last week's plot across a double episode and giving it chance to breathe, while also bringing back a few familiar faces like Crowley and Rowena to help see off Chuck, who I feel were sorely missed from the show's final outing(s).
This has been a consistently great watch and really looking forward to season 2. If I have one criticism it's that I wish that we'd had a little more of the darker forces / supernatural elements running throughout, as the opening scene of episode one felt quite removed from much of this (albeit terrific) first season.
Loved this episode. The House of Abundance's debut was iconic and it was so fun to see Candy again.
It's interesting how, out of an entire 45 minute episode, one single scene that explicitly addresses they/them pronouns has got a certain type of viewer bent out of shape. Apparently this equates to the episode being riddled with nonsense, all the more ridiculous since the idea of inclusion and acceptance is so against the Trek ethos...oh wait.
Anyway, sadly this was another weak episode. Normally I'm Georgio's biggest fan but I have to agree with Andrew Bloom's review that her combative quips in the early part of the episode were generally quite forced and poorly delivered. In fact, the script for this episode was noticeably clunky in terms of the incidental dialogue between the cast. Also, while I appreciate the show finally fleshing out Detmer's character after three seasons, I feel like they've possibly miscast her. The actress isn't bad, per se, but her performance comes across as a fairly meek individual rather than someone who ought to be helming a starship. In fact the general calibre of the performances this episode was a bit wonky. The actress playing Osyrra was quite wooden in my opinion, as was the actor playing her nephew.
After a strong start to the season, these past few episodes have rather dragged. I'm hoping the closing third of the season is a return to form as some of the plot points start getting resolved.
I'm sorry but Shuga should not have been in the bottom two, let alone be the one to be sent home. She may have been overshadowed by Brooke Lynn and Nina but she was still on the winning team and did a good job, and her runway was solid even if the reveals gave diminishing returns. The fact Ru put her in the bottom felt a little contrived, tbh. Personally, even though she was excellent last week, I'd have been inclined to put Akiria in the bottom two since her performance was underwhelming and her runway wasn't even a kaftan! At least Yvie and Silky (ugh) had great runway looks, even if they were similarly weak in the challenge.
That aside, I really enjoyed the main and mini challenge and loved all the jokes between the judges. Great episode.
Bailey: "Karev did something better than us..."
Webber: "...and he can never know!"
Fab finale of a superb show. I know they parted ways on bad terms but I was still kinda hoping we'd see Cuddy one last time.
