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Riverdale- So that's his plan?! Hiram is buying up all that propety to build... a for profit prison? It doesn't seem that scandalous! But yeah, Veronica and Archie's relationship hits some bumps because he's fine with being in on the Lodge's schemes for love, but he doesn't want his dad involved in their shenanigans.
Which he is starting to when they want him to run for mayor. Archie tries to stop it by leaking info to Jughead about the Lodges secretly buying Pops, but it backfires. Not only does Pop tell Jughead not to say anything until his mother is gone, because at least he still gets to pay his mother's medical bills with the Lodges owning his restaurant, which does give Jughead pause, Pops immediately informs the Lodges of the line of questioning. V falls on her sword and says she accidentally spilled the beans at the trip last week so they wouldn't get angry at Archie.
But eventually, V realizes its causing a strain in her relationship, so she begs her parents to tell Archie and Fred everything. So after hearing about the prison plan, Fred is out, but Archie chooses to stay. And so the Lodges go with plan B, Hermione running for mayor. Only Fred gets the buttons Veronica had made up for him, so I think he might consider running against her to stop their plans.
Other stuff, Polly shows up with the babies, and eventually Chic's creepiness freaks Betty out enough to check if he's really her brother. And surprise, surprise, she's not! Which ties into another plot. So Clifford has a will reading finally, and part of the stipulation is giving anyone with Blossom blood a share in the inheritance.
And so Hal, Betty, and Polly are eligible. And so Alice is livid because Hal just asked for a divorce, and she realizes its so he knew this was coming and is trying to cut her out of any inheritance he would get. But they were wanting Chic to be getting tested to see if he was eligible. But why would he be?! He's supposed to be Alice's son, and Betty and Polly are Blossoms through their dad. Unless Hal is his father, which if he was, makes no sense that he would be such an ahole to him. Like Hal being distrustful of Alice's kid with some other rando from their past, sure, but if Chic was also his, its incredibly weird.
But I digress, Alice causes a hilarious scene, calling Penelope a "half melted ten cent trollop" in the middle of the reading. HA!
Anyways, shocker at the will reading, Clifford seems to show up. Cheryl faints, and I love how weird Cheryl is- she like wakes up in her mom's lap, all "Mummy, I had the most frightful dream..." like, who the hell talks like that? Its not Clifford, its his twin brother Claudius, because apparently not only are twins a thing in the Blossom family, there's a Blossom twin curse, like one of the twins always faces a bad end. Guess Cheryl is safe since Jason fulfilled the curse.
But yeah, he's back now that Clifford (who apparently tried to kill him when they were kids) is gone. And Cheryl overhears what sounds like a plan between Claudius and Penelope to kill the Grandma, and then her.
Other stuff, Betty's investigation into Chic also involved Kevin trying to catfish him, but Kevin ends up feeling bad. Also, Cheryl and Toni are like new "best friends", the latter finding Cheryl's whole messy family hilarious.
The Magicians- Some interesting stuff! So Q, Alice, and Josh go to Fillory to find the next key, which is apparently hidden somewhere in the throne room at Whitespire. Q and Alice argue about her making a deal with the Library. It takes all ep, but Josh thinks he's figured out where exactly the key is, but we don't see what he does.
Meanwhile, after Eliot and Margo had dropped the others off and flew off in the Muntjac, they need to find a way to stop the Lorians and the Floaters from attacking Fillory. Which they manage to do, Eliot in the sheets with the Lorian king, and Margo using her unique brand of persuasiveness on the Floater queen.
In the Underworld, Penny is miserable, and he's mad at Sylvia, who he finds out betrayed him to knock a million years off her billion year contract. All her family is dead, and so she can't see them until she's done, so she was desperate. Penny understands, and they cook up a plan to "move on" by stealing some Underworld metrocards.
He steals a couple for himself and Sylvia, but is confronted by Hades, who has taken a liken to Penny. Hades talks about how Penny, for all his complaining, likes being the sacrificial lamb, like its this weird thing where he needs to prove his usefulness so he won't be abandoned, so he does the crazy risky shit he does. He also says the quest isn't that big a deal. Like it might take 1000 years, but magic will return, because the gods use it as an effective carrot. So its an inevitability, Penny and his friends don't have to kill themselves trying to complete these quests.
Hades says he'll let him move on, or he can stay and be "a part of something". Like really join a group where they're all on equal footing and he doesn't feel the need to do whatever it takes in the hopes that he'll be appreciated. Hades' suggests the book club Penny's coworker was trying to get him to join.
And so Penny gives Sylvia the metrocard to move on, for which she's grateful, and joins the club (which has the added benefit of being unlocked from his chains). During the club meeting, he is offered and eats a cupcake, which some viewers are freaking out about, because of the old Greek myth of eating anything in the Underworld binds you to it. So he may have been unlocked from his physical chains, but now he's stuck.
The big storyline is the fairy stuff. Julia and Fen are trying to help the fairies held by the Mcallisters, but are having trouble convincing the faeries to help, because the other fairies don't believe Skye was able to do magic. So Fen and Julia meet with the fairy queen, who doesn't trust them. She thinks its a trick. Fen brings up the point that she hates the Faeries for all they've done to her, but she hates what the Mcallisters are doing to the faeries they have even more, its cruel and evil. Julia says she's not doing it for any gain, and eventually the Faerie Queen decides to help.
Julia says she found a town of Faeries in the midwest, and wants some of the slave collars the Mcallisters have to control them. So she has the queen poses as Julia's slave, just until they can find the machine to remove the collars. Only, they find out there is no such machine!
Irene's grandfather or uncle or whatever (played by Col Tigh from BSG!) says he made the collars, and search his office high and low for it. Fen manages to see Tigh and a fairy strap another fairy into a machine that Fen thinks might be the collar remover, but it decapitates the fairy.
Fen is so disgusted that later, she confronts that fairy at the cage where he and his brethren are kept, threatening to kill cut his throat for being complicit. We find out that he is the oldest of his kind there. He was one of the fairies who stayed behind to cover his Queen's retreat, and the collars are part of a deal they made to allow that escape.
The Queen overhears this, and says that Queen was her mother, and lets him know his sacrifice as not in vain like they thought. Oh, Julia also sees the Mcallisters over dinner talking about slaughtering their whole stock to make a bunch of Fairy Coke for someone or something, so they need to find a way to get the collars off and escape.
The Queen says there is a way, but it involves breaking a fairy deal, and she can't, because that's the only thing protecting them, that people can trust their word. But their conversation is interrupted by Uncle Edwin, who's there to get more fairies to decapitate. Julia and Fen try to stop him, but they're quickly blown back. But between the horror of what he plans to do, and seeing Julia and Fen hurt trying to save them, she breaks the deal. And so all the collars fall off and the Mcallisters can no longer see them.
They slaughter the whole household, except for Irene, who gets away. The Fairy Queen has a heart to heart with Julia, grateful for what she's done, but also lets her know that the Fairies have one of the keys. Only its powering the Fairy realm, so there's no way she can give it to Julia. Guess we'll have to see how they work things out!
Criminal Minds- Don't get cocky! So the gang are all in sucky positions. Except for Reid, who's like freaking Indiana Jones at his teaching job, having a bunch of hot young coeds wanting to audit his class for some reason. Like, wasn't he supposed to be awkward and weird? What's with him all of a sudden being a heartthrob?
Anyways, Penelope finds them a case, which Barnes refuses. She's pretty horrible, only wanting the BAU to take cases that will make the FBI look good. This pissed JJ off to no end, because they're here to save lives. And since Barnes screwed with the BAU, JJ counts at least 25+ people who died who they could've saved.
The team gets together to work on the case anyways, JJ gets temporarily fired along the way, and lucky for them, the killer ends up kidnapping a Senator's daughter and almost kills her. The BAU manage to save her in the nick of time, and the senator is grateful. He reinstates Prentiss, who promptly tells him how much Barnes fucked up, and if not for them ignoring her, his daughter would've died.
So everything is back to normal, and Barnes isn't allowed to eff with the BAU. So everyone's happy, but there's still like several eps to go! I'm hoping this is over, but I'm guessing Barnes might try to fuck with them again!
Riverdale- So that's his plan?! Hiram is buying up all that propety to build... a for profit prison? It doesn't seem that scandalous! But yeah, Veronica and Archie's relationship hits some bumps because he's fine with being in on the Lodge's schemes for love, but he doesn't want his dad involved in their shenanigans.
Which he is starting to when they want him to run for mayor. Archie tries to stop it by leaking info to Jughead about the Lodges secretly buying Pops, but it backfires. Not only does Pop tell Jughead not to say anything until his mother is gone, because at least he still gets to pay his mother's medical bills with the Lodges owning his restaurant, which does give Jughead pause, Pops immediately informs the Lodges of the line of questioning. V falls on her sword and says she accidentally spilled the beans at the trip last week so they wouldn't get angry at Archie.
But eventually, V realizes its causing a strain in her relationship, so she begs her parents to tell Archie and Fred everything. So after hearing about the prison plan, Fred is out, but Archie chooses to stay. And so the Lodges go with plan B, Hermione running for mayor. Only Fred gets the buttons Veronica had made up for him, so I think he might consider running against her to stop their plans.
Other stuff, Polly shows up with the babies, and eventually Chic's creepiness freaks Betty out enough to check if he's really her brother. And surprise, surprise, she's not! Which ties into another plot. So Clifford has a will reading finally, and part of the stipulation is giving anyone with Blossom blood a share in the inheritance.
And so Hal, Betty, and Polly are eligible. And so Alice is livid because Hal just asked for a divorce, and she realizes its so he knew this was coming and is trying to cut her out of any inheritance he would get. But they were wanting Chic to be getting tested to see if he was eligible. But why would he be?! He's supposed to be Alice's son, and Betty and Polly are Blossoms through their dad. Unless Hal is his father, which if he was, makes no sense that he would be such an ahole to him. Like Hal being distrustful of Alice's kid with some other rando from their past, sure, but if Chic was also his, its incredibly weird.
But I digress, Alice causes a hilarious scene, calling Penelope a "half melted ten cent trollop" in the middle of the reading. HA!
Anyways, shocker at the will reading, Clifford seems to show up. Cheryl faints, and I love how weird Cheryl is- she like wakes up in her mom's lap, all "Mummy, I had the most frightful dream..." like, who the hell talks like that? Its not Clifford, its his twin brother Claudius, because apparently not only are twins a thing in the Blossom family, there's a Blossom twin curse, like one of the twins always faces a bad end. Guess Cheryl is safe since Jason fulfilled the curse.
But yeah, he's back now that Clifford (who apparently tried to kill him when they were kids) is gone. And Cheryl overhears what sounds like a plan between Claudius and Penelope to kill the Grandma, and then her.
Other stuff, Betty's investigation into Chic also involved Kevin trying to catfish him, but Kevin ends up feeling bad. Also, Cheryl and Toni are like new "best friends", the latter finding Cheryl's whole messy family hilarious.
The Magicians- Some interesting stuff! So Q, Alice, and Josh go to Fillory to find the next key, which is apparently hidden somewhere in the throne room at Whitespire. Q and Alice argue about her making a deal with the Library. It takes all ep, but Josh thinks he's figured out where exactly the key is, but we don't see what he does.
Meanwhile, after Eliot and Margo had dropped the others off and flew off in the Muntjac, they need to find a way to stop the Lorians and the Floaters from attacking Fillory. Which they manage to do, Eliot in the sheets with the Lorian king, and Margo using her unique brand of persuasiveness on the Floater queen.
In the Underworld, Penny is miserable, and he's mad at Sylvia, who he finds out betrayed him to knock a million years off her billion year contract. All her family is dead, and so she can't see them until she's done, so she was desperate. Penny understands, and they cook up a plan to "move on" by stealing some Underworld metrocards.
He steals a couple for himself and Sylvia, but is confronted by Hades, who has taken a liken to Penny. Hades talks about how Penny, for all his complaining, likes being the sacrificial lamb, like its this weird thing where he needs to prove his usefulness so he won't be abandoned, so he does the crazy risky shit he does. He also says the quest isn't that big a deal. Like it might take 1000 years, but magic will return, because the gods use it as an effective carrot. So its an inevitability, Penny and his friends don't have to kill themselves trying to complete these quests.
Hades says he'll let him move on, or he can stay and be "a part of something". Like really join a group where they're all on equal footing and he doesn't feel the need to do whatever it takes in the hopes that he'll be appreciated. Hades' suggests the book club Penny's coworker was trying to get him to join.
And so Penny gives Sylvia the metrocard to move on, for which she's grateful, and joins the club (which has the added benefit of being unlocked from his chains). During the club meeting, he is offered and eats a cupcake, which some viewers are freaking out about, because of the old Greek myth of eating anything in the Underworld binds you to it. So he may have been unlocked from his physical chains, but now he's stuck.
The big storyline is the fairy stuff. Julia and Fen are trying to help the fairies held by the Mcallisters, but are having trouble convincing the faeries to help, because the other fairies don't believe Skye was able to do magic. So Fen and Julia meet with the fairy queen, who doesn't trust them. She thinks its a trick. Fen brings up the point that she hates the Faeries for all they've done to her, but she hates what the Mcallisters are doing to the faeries they have even more, its cruel and evil. Julia says she's not doing it for any gain, and eventually the Faerie Queen decides to help.
Julia says she found a town of Faeries in the midwest, and wants some of the slave collars the Mcallisters have to control them. So she has the queen poses as Julia's slave, just until they can find the machine to remove the collars. Only, they find out there is no such machine!
Irene's grandfather or uncle or whatever (played by Col Tigh from BSG!) says he made the collars, and search his office high and low for it. Fen manages to see Tigh and a fairy strap another fairy into a machine that Fen thinks might be the collar remover, but it decapitates the fairy.
Fen is so disgusted that later, she confronts that fairy at the cage where he and his brethren are kept, threatening to kill cut his throat for being complicit. We find out that he is the oldest of his kind there. He was one of the fairies who stayed behind to cover his Queen's retreat, and the collars are part of a deal they made to allow that escape.
The Queen overhears this, and says that Queen was her mother, and lets him know his sacrifice as not in vain like they thought. Oh, Julia also sees the Mcallisters over dinner talking about slaughtering their whole stock to make a bunch of Fairy Coke for someone or something, so they need to find a way to get the collars off and escape.
The Queen says there is a way, but it involves breaking a fairy deal, and she can't, because that's the only thing protecting them, that people can trust their word. But their conversation is interrupted by Uncle Edwin, who's there to get more fairies to decapitate. Julia and Fen try to stop him, but they're quickly blown back. But between the horror of what he plans to do, and seeing Julia and Fen hurt trying to save them, she breaks the deal. And so all the collars fall off and the Mcallisters can no longer see them.
They slaughter the whole household, except for Irene, who gets away. The Fairy Queen has a heart to heart with Julia, grateful for what she's done, but also lets her know that the Fairies have one of the keys. Only its powering the Fairy realm, so there's no way she can give it to Julia. Guess we'll have to see how they work things out!
Criminal Minds- Don't get cocky! So the gang are all in sucky positions. Except for Reid, who's like freaking Indiana Jones at his teaching job, having a bunch of hot young coeds wanting to audit his class for some reason. Like, wasn't he supposed to be awkward and weird? What's with him all of a sudden being a heartthrob?
Anyways, Penelope finds them a case, which Barnes refuses. She's pretty horrible, only wanting the BAU to take cases that will make the FBI look good. This pissed JJ off to no end, because they're here to save lives. And since Barnes screwed with the BAU, JJ counts at least 25+ people who died who they could've saved.
The team gets together to work on the case anyways, JJ gets temporarily fired along the way, and lucky for them, the killer ends up kidnapping a Senator's daughter and almost kills her. The BAU manage to save her in the nick of time, and the senator is grateful. He reinstates Prentiss, who promptly tells him how much Barnes fucked up, and if not for them ignoring her, his daughter would've died.
So everything is back to normal, and Barnes isn't allowed to eff with the BAU. So everyone's happy, but there's still like several eps to go! I'm hoping this is over, but I'm guessing Barnes might try to fuck with them again!
