Author Shawn Hill

Klaus, Klaus, Klaus. Whatever can be done with you? Will you ever learn subtlety?

So, this episode was a lot of sound and fury signifying everything we already knew about Klaus, but now he’s got a better apartment?

On the cursed scale, she’s got nothing on Tyler Lockwood or Hayley, but then wolves usually have it bad.

Heavy-handed for any other show, but a leap in the right direction for this one, I’d say. They might even get in the ballpark of subtlety one day.

We've been treated to an overload of vampire flashbacks, and far fewer wolf worries, but while everybody's been talking about the witches, nobody's been talking to them.

This show is revealing its weaknesses too early.

Actually, the major point of the episode for me is the masked ball everyone attends, which gives Rebekah a chance to shine as a blonde ice queen in shimmering black.

You're not going to believe this. Klaus is the exposition fairy this week.

About the only thing the cool Originals (Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson) can rely on: their half-brother Klaus will always be an asshole.