Tell-Tale TV Picks of the Week: You’re The Worst, Madam Secretary, and iZombie Deliver Best Quotes

Storyline We Could Have Done Without

Lyra: William’s mother asking Oliver to keep his son from Felicity on Arrow. Look, I understand that she’d do anything for her son. She’s proved how far she’s willing to go by hiding her son from Oliver and not taking Moira’s money. But didn’t she just say that Oliver has changed and that’s he’s become a better man? That she’s been watching him and seen the change? You would have to be blind to see that asking him to hide this hurts him. He’s in a committed relationship and asking him to hide this from his loved one is selfish. It will ruin his life and make it hard for him to continue to be this ‘better man’ in the eyes of the one’s he holds dear.

Christine: Josh Chan’s whole hip-hop troupe glory days on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I didn’t mind the storyline exactly, I just think it was out of place in an episode that focused on relationships with mothers. It felt like a story for another episode, one that would give Vincent Rodriguez III more time to shine than the few minutes he had in “My Mom, Greg’s Mom, and Josh’s Sweet Dance Moves!”

Jessica: The 10 Commandments Killer reveal on American Horror Story: Hotel. It was so painfully obvious from the beginning that John Lowe was the killer that I could have done without the hour to explain why he was the killer.

Lizzie: I agree with Lyra. The whole storyline was just drama for the sake of drama, and that’s never good. Oliver and Felicity had to literally become OTHER people for this whole thing to work, and they had to introduce a character in Samantha that was so one-dimensional she might have been starring in a Lifetime movie. Just bad, bad, bad.

Allison: I agree with Lyra and Lizzie a 100%. I also could have done without the case on Grimm. Trubel is back, so let’s focus on her! Where has she been? Why is she going by Lauren Cole? There are so many questions I need answered, and as hilarious as the concept of a rat king is, I spent the whole time thinking about Trubel.

Caralynn: I’m with Lyra and Lizzie on this one. The Olicity drama on this week’s Arrow was so obviously contrived and it fell really flat for me. Both Oliver and Felicity were acting totally out of character (specifically during the alternate timeline in the first half of the episode) it was infuriating.

Quote of the Week

Lyra: Ravi on iZombie – “What if you have a vision of having sex with Clive? What if you see his O face?” Every line that slips out of Ravi’s mouth is gold and something to look forward to in every episode.

Christine: On You’re the Worst Sam telling Gretchen that “Some of the most legendary geniuses of our time suffered from depression. David Foster Wallace, Hemingway, Spalding Gray, Boner from Growing Pains…”… I laughed out loud. I love a good Growing Pains reference.

Jessica: Bess on Madam Secretary – “Is it wrong to eat cereal for dinner? I don’t care.” I love that such a serious show has moments of pure fun and relatability.

Lizzie: Cat Grant, on Supergirl. “Whatever you do, you cannot get angry at work. Especially when you’re a girl.”

Allison: I loved that quote, Jessica! Mine also comes from Madam Secretary – “At what point would you be willing to violate the cone of silence between us? What would it take? Would millions of lives have to be at stake because that’s where we are.” Henry was in BAMF mode.

Caralynn: Lindsay to Gretchen on You’re the Worst – “I’m sorry during the “Rock of Love” auditions I called you a poor man’s Isla Fisher.”

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