Those DC movies better blow me away since they have taken Grade-A bad guys like the Suicide Squad off the board and left us with D-listers like these mooks for Arrow to play with.
Big changes on every Vampire Diaries front, the validation of Valerie as a major player, and side adventures for Bonnie and Matt make this a lively, fast-paced episode.
But the suspension of disbelief required of the viewer in Hulu’s serialized adaptation of King’s 11.22.63 is almost too much, and very nearly ruins what’s a very enjoyable second half.
Sure, it’s something of a “Ripped from the Headlines”/“Very Special Episode” of the X-Files, but the feel is loose and jaunty enough to separate it from the tired tropes of the countless acronym procedurals over on the other stations.
While Supernatural is a male-centric show, what they lack in quantity of female characters, they make up for in quality of the women in returning roles.
