The Lowdown is the Ethan Hawke show where he's like a crime blogger and bookstore owner and cool with his daughter in a way that only works on TV and set in OKlahoma and I really do kind of like it but I'm still digging out from stuff from two years ago.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
erikaj - Mar 24, 2026 1:32:58 pm PDT #10703 of 10706
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
-t - Mar 24, 2026 1:37:57 pm PDT #10704 of 10706
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, thanks! I had heard good things but didn't retain the name
Jessica - Mar 31, 2026 6:51:34 am PDT #10705 of 10706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
S7 is about as messy as I remember. The narrative is caught between "introduce a bunch of new lore before we run out of time" and "let's get back to basics" AND "keep Spike relevant at all costs" in a way that makes for very lumpy repetitive storytelling even before we merge into the Speeches And Potentials roundabout.
AtS S4 has reached the point where Charisma Carpenter is VERY visibly pregnant, but Cordelia's pregnancy hasn't yet been revealed (she slept with Connor about three days ago in show time) so she's spending a lot of time wearing extremely billowy blouses or sitting down with a pile of blankets in her lap.
dcp - Mar 31, 2026 7:16:38 am PDT #10706 of 10706
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
very lumpy repetitive storytelling
Yes. Did not like that aspect.