Definitely not an Apollo kid

LOGAN LERMAN as THE SON Bullet Train • 2022, dir. David Leitch

I finished School Spirits (including the season finale) AND that is how you do a teen drama!

This show is taking the murder mystery elements of Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars to heights the teen genre deserves. I don't think there is one character I dislike, despite the darker angsty premise being designed to grate on you. Every single character gives a compelling performance, even Xavier — who I lowkey want to fight — and leans into the unlikeable teen angst angle.

The weekly release format was a good call, it suits the show’s pacing and episodic cliffhangers so well. Even better, the writers establish a mystery in the pilot and stick to it. So many shows wait to pick a killer halfway through the season, basically establishing any of the clues thrown out in the first episodes lead nowhere. But School Spirits hints at the culprit from the beginning. There are no gimmicks to make it unsolvable for fans and no assumptions that guessing the outcome will somehow cheapen the story.

The final reveal of what happened to Maddie perfectly aligns with all the clues we've gathered along the way. The finale wraps things up spectacularly and proves beyond a doubt this mystery can go the distance with more seasons.

I personally would love to see what else this show has up its sleeve after that killer finale. (Also, I need more of Wally and Charley's adorable ghosty-ness in my life)

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Educator of the the Year (2x20)

Trevor, Hetty, & Sam in Trevor’s Pants for anonymous  ↳ Bonus - Live Alberta reaction: 

GHOSTS: Questions for Asher a.k.a Trevor

Ghosts is paying its respects to T-Money this week, and I have the honor of discussing this a-list funeral episode with the man of the hour.

If you have any questions for Asher Grodman, send them my way.

And here's my previous interview with Asher that we did for last year's "Trevor's Pants" episode.

The Teen Wolf movie’s lack of context to the Derek & Sheriff Stilinski relationship is a travesty because you know this man helped Derek Hale raise his son.

You can feel the history in their shared frustration over Eli’s fixation with the jeep. You see how easily either of them show up when the other calls for back up. Sheriff didn't hesitate to be the bad cop and threaten Derek’s son so Eli would cut Derek some slack. Stiles’ father was there to help Derek figure out how to be a good parent, I have no doubt he showed up a few times to the house on his days off to babysit. And I know Derek has called the Sheriff at the station over the smallest emergencies. In the process Derek found himself growing fond of Stilinski, even seeing him as a father figure. Surely he enjoyed how much it drove Stiles up the wall when his dad called to talk not about the FBI, but how amazing Derek was doing with Eli. I can almost hear the frustration in Stiles voice as he realizes Derek Hale is trying to replace him, maybe to spite him. Definitely to spite him.

Derek and Argent had an understanding. Derek and Stiles put aside their differences to save each other over and over. But when Derek needed someone, the one man left to protect Beacon Hills stepped in to help the big scary werewolf without hesitation. Sheriff Stilinski never forgot about the young Hale boy who lost everything, even when that boy jeopardized his son’s life. He knew Derek needed a parent to show him the ropes. He also knew how hard it was to raise Stiles as a widowed father, and one look at Eli told him Derek couldn't do this alone, not like he had. Claudia would want her husband to help Derek, to put aside their differences, and be there for each other. And he was there to defend Derek after he was gone, to ensure Eli knew just what kind of father he had. The film’s ending aside, I know Eli wound up in the Sheriff’s care, staying in Stiles’ old bedroom because there was no way that man wasn’t seeing what he started through for Derek’s sake.

This Sterek-adjacent dynamic is everything, and it hurts that we will never get the Hale spin-off these two deserve because, wow the emotional subcontext that carries through those 15 unspoken years is too much.

Ghosts Dynamics: Jay Arondekar & Pete Martino

“Also, please tell Jay I love him, and that Mark sucks and he shouldn’t be friends with him anymore.” 

me realising we will finally get a tv adapted pjo show this year:

me realising we also get nico di angelo suffering in tartarus as well:

these guys friggin crushed me istg this is not fair

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