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- Laurel Brown spent six years in graduate school studying the history of science. Now she writes about television. Logic is highly overrated. TV is not. Follow her at @DocBrown_TV
![OK, first things first: Felicity Smoak is not dead and buried in that mysterious grave. Arrow at least put that scary theory to rest in its first episode of 2016, “Blood […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-410-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Blood Debts"){kind=icon}
![It was probably inevitable that a show so focused on speed would get around to a “The Tortoise and the Hare”-type story. And, being the comic book-derived show that it […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/FLA210B_0251b-210x115.jpg "The Flash: Potential Energy")
![Another year, another Flarrow. Yes, it’s time for the second annual (third if you count the Arrow Season 2 spinoff episodes) Flash / Arrow crossover event! And this time it’s even more complicated […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/flash-208-210x115.jpg "The Flash: Legends of Today")
![The Arrow episode, “Lost Souls,” went to a lot of trouble to rescue a tater tot. Of course, said tater tot is also known as Ray and is way hotter […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-406-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Lost Souls"){kind=icon}
![Sometimes it takes more than an entire TV show’s worth of heroes to save the day. Sometimes you need to bring in a pinch hitter. The Arrow episode, “Haunted,” is […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-404-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Haunted"){kind=icon}
![Is anything what it seems? The most recent episode of The Flash Season 2, “The Darkness and the Light,” doesn’t think so. Secrets, lies, and doppelgängers run rampant, leaving Barry and […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/FLA205B_0131b-210x115.jpg "The Flash: The Darkness and the Light")
![A lot of things happened in the “Beyond Redemption” episode of Arrow. Oliver announced his candidacy for mayor. Felicity dealt with her unresolved feelings about dead (but not really) Ray […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-405-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Beyond Redemption"){kind=icon}
![The most recent Arrow episode, “Restoration,” has just about everything. An “original Team Arrow” adventure, some Malcolm-Thea repartee, a metahuman visiting from Central City, and a trip to Nanda Parbat. […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-403-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Restoration"){kind=icon}
![There are a lot of family-related themes in The Flash. So it’s hardly a surprise that “Family of Rogues” would delve into those themes in a big way. What might […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/flash-203-210x115.jpg "The Flash: Family of Rogues")
![The second episode of Arrow Season 4, “The Candidate,” was an impressive offering with a new bad guy, a new candidate for mayor, new problems for Thea, and a not-so-new […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-402-210x115.jpg "Arrow: The Candidate"){kind=icon}
![To say that a lot of things happened in the most recent episode of The Flash, “Flash of Two Worlds,” would be an understatement. There were several new characters introduced […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/flash-202-210x115.jpg "The Flash: Flash of Two Worlds")
![Oliver Queen had a great summer vacation — which is good because he is back in the Arrow Season 4 premiere and ready to kick some Damien Darhk butt. In an […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/arrow-401-210x115.jpg "Arrow: Green Arrow"){kind=icon}
![The Flash is back! And it came with lots and lots of emotions in the Season 2 premiere episode, “The Man Who Saved Central City.” Super Mega Happy Beginning The […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/flash-201-210x115.jpg "The Flash: The Man Who Saved Central City")
![After way too many months of no Jamie and no Claire and no 18th-century Scottish fight scenes and no wedding night-style sex, Outlander is back this weekend. While you’re counting down to […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/outlander-paley-210x115.jpg "Red Carpet Chats from Outlander at PaleyFest")
![That John Constantine has a dark and complicated past is something that viewers of Constantine knew long before “The Saint of Last Resorts.” But we didn’t know that one of […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165834_0611-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: Pasts Catch Up to John and Zed in The Saint of Last Resorts")
![One thing is made very clear in the Constantine episode, “Blessed Are the Damned”: John Constantine is not a church guy. Shocking, isn’t it? Although when you think about it, […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165570_0080-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: Bad Religion in ‘Blessed Are the Damned’")
![As Steven Spielberg and fans of The Shining will tell you, there’s nothing scarier than a creepy kid. With “Rage of Caliban,” Constantine has made that clear once again. Adorable […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_164754_2059-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: The Kids Aren’t All Right in ‘Rage of Caliban’")
![Laissez les bon temps rouler! Or, more accurately, laissez les mal corps marcher! This is Constantine, after all, so even New Orleans is more about dead bodies rising from their […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165540_2451_0-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: A ‘Danse Vaudou’ Isn’t as Fun as It Sounds")
![The goat entrails have spoken and pronounced “A Feast of Friends” to be the most disgusting and disturbing Constantine so far. Fortunately, this episode is also the best one we’ve […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165528_0957-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: Bugs and Eyeballs for ‘A Feast of Friends’")
![You know how they talk about the devil’s music? Well, in Constantine, that’s meant literally. “The Devil’s Vinyl” is all about what happens when you sell your soul to the […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165267_0350-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: Papa Midnite Sings the Blues in “The Devil’s Vinyl”")
![This is where Constantine really gets going. In “The Darkness Beneath,” John tackles demons with little more than sarcasm and a few random incantations, all while teaming up with his […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_165037_1147-210x115.jpg "Constantine Recap: Knock, Knock … Zed’s There")
![What makes John Constantine different from all of the other comic-book heroes out there, saving humanity from one form of destruction or another? It’s that Constantine doesn’t really care what […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/NUP_163641_1185-210x115.jpg "Constantine Premiere Recap: Saving the World While Not Giving a Damn")
![We All Scream for Ice Cream … And Murder Ice cream. It’s cold, creamy, delicious and a pure symbol of youth and innocence. At least, that’s what ice cream is […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/castle-704-210x115.jpg "Castle: Child’s Play")
![… or the Invisible Woman, as the case may be. Yes, this Castle episode goes there. And by “there,” I mean the episode dives so deep into geekery that only […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/castle-703-210x115.jpg "Castle: Castle vs. the Invisible Man")
![The Supernatural Season 10 premiere features the rise of the Deanmon (thanks, CW publicity, for that one!), a new semi-bad guy named Cole, more of the never-ending angel drama, and […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/supernatural-1001-210x115.jpg "Supernatural: Black")
![When television is done right, the answer to every question only brings up more questions. That’s why the second episode of Castle Season 7 is so good: we now know a […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/castle-702-210x115.jpg "Castle: The Mystery of Montreal")
![The Castle Season 7 premiere is a rather frustrating one — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Frustration is the main theme of “Driven,” an episode devoted first to finding […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/635470806147470000-210x115.jpg "Castle: Driven")
![Castle Season 7 is premiering tonight, but will Richard Castle return with his show? Following the mysterious car crash that ended both Season 6 and the Castle-Beckett wedding in the spring, […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/tamala-jones-210x115.jpg "Castle’s Tamala Jones: Lanie’s Role & Castle’s Disappearance in Season 7")
![It’s tough to find time for a personal life when you’re a hardcore vigilante like Oliver Queen on Arrow. “The Huntress Returns” makes this all too clear — from angry […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170421004429im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/00681580f9f-210x115.jpg "Arrow Recap: Girl Problems. Psychotic, Murderous Girl Problems")
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