Quote of the Week - Week of March 10

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the SpoilerTV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

Black Lightning -
1. Jennifer: "I recognize that look." Jefferson: "What?" Jennifer: "The look on your face. You're thinking sappy thoughts, aren't you?" Jefferson: "No, I'm not" {he most definitely was. LOL} Jennifer: "What are you thinking about?" Jefferson: "Lunch. You pick." (Prpleight)
2. {As Jennifer, glowing with power, chases them down.} Tobias: "What's that?" Cutter: "Don't know. Don't care." (Prpleight)

The Cool Kids -
1. Sid: “I’ve always wanted to be a snob. I so seldom get to look down on people.”
2. Margaret: “Look Charlie, all you have to do is get baked and bake. I have always dreamed of running my own business. I will handle everything else.” Charlie: “I don’t think so.” Margaret: “Your weed would be a business write off...” Charlie: “I’m in.”
3. Margaret: “You know what Charlie? You could make some decent money selling these cookies.” Sid: “Oh Charlie, you’d be adorable selling cookies - like a stoned, wrinkly Girl Scout. What am I saying? That would be terrifying.”

Doom Patrol -
1. Mr. Nobody: “No, this cannot be the end. I refuse. I haven't even been in the last two episodes.” (Mads)
2. Doctor Harrison: “Once upon a time, my world was big and filled with monsters. But now the world is small and I am the monster.” (Mads)
3. Cliff: “I didn't mean to I just... If this is really about to go to hell, then I just want to spend my last moments with her.” (Mads)

Fam -
1. Walter: "If you can dance in front of a teenage girl, the most notoriously judgmental creature on the Earth, you can dance at your wedding." (Prpleight)

New Amsterdam -
1. Kapoor: “We both went to bed angry, and then she didn't wake up. All these years I thought I was hurting because I didn't get to say I was sorry. Now I know it's because I didn't get to tell her that I loved her smile, her mischief, her heart.” (Donna)

The Passage -
1. Man: "I thought they only moved at night. Why won't these bloodsuckers stick to the rules!" (Prpleight)
2. Shauna: "You're still telling yourself the same story. That you're some Boy Scout who’s following all the rules, and you're better than everyone else, and I'm just the train wreck that ruined your life. But you know what? You ruined mine first. I was human before I met you." (Prpleight)
3. Brad: "Last lesson. Sometimes the right thing is the hardest thing in the world to do." (Prpleight)

Proven Innocent -
1. Maddie, about jail: “You know I’ll deny I ever said it but a part of me, a very small part of me, relaxes in here.” Easy: “Yeah, it’s like Tahiti without the everything.”
2. Maddie, after Easy hugs a white supremacist: “Why’d you do that?” Easy: “For the greater good. I just pray that small gesture did more than those gates did when they opened up for him.”
3. Easy: “You want to start a war.” Maddie: “We’re already fighting the war, Easy. Let’s friggin’ win it. I just need you to post my bail first.” Easy: “It’s what I live for.”

Single Parents -
1. Angie: “Okay, I opened a third bottle of wine, and we are still wearing our bras, which means that we're quite tame considering it's "Bachelor" night.” (Mads)
2. Poppy: “He went to that Fyre Festival and came home with no complaints.” (Mads)
3. Chris Harrison: “Look, every woman who's come to this mansion has been hurt before. But they come here with no less than 15 formal dresses and occasionally a freakish costume for night 1, ready to put themselves out there again.” (Mads)

Supergirl -
1. Supergirl to Dreamer about her interrogation techniques: “I meant more hands on hips than screaming in faces.” (Zandarl)
2. Brainy: “In times list, this change won’t come from someone with a ring or a cape. It will only come when each one of us answers the call to stand up and be heard.” El Mayarah: “Stronger together. Just because we’re superheroes doesn’t mean we forget who we are.” (Donna)
3. Brainy: “Supergirl may be a symbol – more importantly she’s a citizen of Earth, like the rest of us. Remember that.” (Donna)
4. Alex: “And I know that Supergirl and I haven’t really been on the same page lately. Seeing her out there at that march, hand-in-hand with everybody else…I was inspired.” (Donna)

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."

Proven Innocent - 1.02 - The Burden of Truth - Review

Violet: “People say the truth will set you free, so what happens when telling the truth is what ends up costing you your freedom?”


Case = Tamara Folsom

In this episode of Proven Innocent, Maddie and company attempt to clear the name of Tamara Folsom. She is currently doing life for the murder of a man she says she never met. Instead, she claims that she fought off an attempted rapist. The problem is that the dead man had his throat slit right at the time that Tamara claimed she knifed her attacker in the throat. To the police, this was a confession but Maddie disagrees. Her first plan is to find the man that Tamara actually did cut. Enter Jeff Skadden, an attempted rapist with a unique scar. Maddie attempts to trick him into receiving a summons to appear in court by pretending to get drunk with him. Sadly, he may be drunk and stupid but he’s still quick. After belting Maddie one, he runs and shows his proclivity for fence jumping. Alas, Maddie is not so good at it and ends up with torn jeans and a gash on her leg for her trouble. Strike one. As Bodie puts it: “We’ll live to fight another day.” At least she got a selfie of Skadden and his scar. When Maddie and Easy go to interview Tamara in prison again, she identifies him as her attacker. Tamara’s less impressed that they let Skadden get away though.

Under the guise of Easy coaching Tamara for her re-trial, she exposits that in her neighborhood people always carry a knife and she was proud to defend herself against a rapist. Her stepdad molested her and she vowed to never be in that position again. Maddie: “Tamara, we hear you, we believe you, and we’re gonna do everything we can to get you the hell out of here.” That includes nailing Tamara’s public defender for being too lazy to do anything in Tamara’s defense. He didn’t look for the man Tamara said she attacked or check the DNA collected. In his defense, he was balancing 72 other cases that month, but Tamara definitely deserved better and Maddie skewers him for it. Bad counsel alone though is not enough to get the judge to commit to a new trial. He wants to hear from Skadden and Easy wants access to the DNA. They now have a couple of days to find Skadden and mount their defense.

Meanwhile Levi has his own legal troubles for assaulting Brian Husband in the pilot. It’s here that this episode is at its weakest. Maddie rushes to the courthouse to represent Levi and stumbles onto an interview Heather Husband is giving. She maintains that Levi killed Rosemary and should never have been released. Heather: “Once a killer, always a killer.” However, she conveniently leaves out how her husband goaded Levi into hitting him. Maddie and Heather have a verbal cat fight, but the whole thing would have been better played in a flashback. Otherwise, there’s no real context for the animosity between them. If Heather were related to Rosemary there would be some foundation, but right now, the only conclusion I can come up with for her bizarre antagonistic behavior is that either she or her husband is the real killer and they can’t afford to have the case reopened. Either that or the Scott siblings got out on a technicality, but that seems unlikely given Maddie’s role as the face of an unjust legal system. Future episodes need to flesh out the Husbands because right now they are stereotypically evil and paper thin, almost cartoonish, and it makes every scene with them a chore. Not that Levi, the drugged out idiot, is making things any easier. He fails to show up at court so a warrant is issued for him.

Back on Tamara’s case, Easy and Maddie attempt to test the DNA evidence but it has mysteriously vanished. ASA Green: “The evidence is missing without explanation.” Maddie: “The evidence has been taken and in all probability destroyed to keep an innocent woman in prison.” ASA Green: “You have no evidence of that.” Maddie: “We have no evidence at all.” Ouch! It doesn’t take someone already burned by the system to find this suspicious. The next morning, Easy has suspicions of his own. While the family eats breakfast, his daughter mentions that she doesn’t want to carpool with Sophie because her dad’s car smells funny. Easy automatically starts digging for information, but all that reveals is how out of touch he is with his family these days. Easy, about his son: “You know it’s like he’s not even here.” Easy’s wife: “Oh. Like father, like son.” Easy insists on meeting Sophie’s dad for dinner later in the week because “it doesn’t hurt to have a friend who’s a mechanic…” His wife is not buying it and she’s obviously unhappy in the marriage.

Since the DNA evidence is definitely out, the only way to get Tamara a new trial is to refind Skadden. Enter Bodie. He poses as a tour agent and lures Skadden in with the promise of a Hawaiian vacation, only to serve him the subpoena. Skadden doesn’t take it well. Bodie: “I could care less what you do, but if you fail to appear, they’re just gonna issue a warrant and you’ll be running from bounty hunters for the next decade.” Bodie should get a raise because he finally convinces Skadden to head to court. Unfortunately, both Maddie and Easy need a crash course with Jason Bull though, because no one has prepped Tamara to listen to Skadden’s testimony. She keeps shouting out, which does nothing to help her case. Neither does Maddie when she insults the judge for not assigning a retrial. I get that she’s a crusader but she has no common sense at times. The judge, however, seems to be willfully obtuse too. He equates someone holding off a rapist to showing “a pattern of violent aggression towards men.” This whole hearing feels off and way too rushed. I understand that this is just a small part of the episode but it feels thrown in as an after fact more than a foundation on which to set the episode. I know the writers wanted to focus on chasing down the real killer, but other shows manage to balance both better.

Heading from a disappointing trial, Maddie goes out to find her drugged-out brother in a homeless tenament camp. Not only do they discuss his big lie, but Maddie also points out the the motive in the prosecution’s case was actually correct. Her brother remains the prime suspect, especially in light of his relationship. Still, Maddie agrees to tackle the warrant but Levi is a mess right now. He really needs to make a new start somewhere else. Since she can’t make progress on either trial yet, Maddie spends her evening reminiscing about good times with Rosemary and the aftermath of her death. She never got to go to her funeral and in some ways, she’s still grieving. Her mom catches her looking at old photographs and urges Maddie to put the trial behind her, for Levi’s sake if nothing else. Then her mom makes the mistake of mentioning that the trial was hard on them too. Maddie goes off on her, saying that she lost her best friend and a decade of her life. That is true, but it also highlights how laser-focused Maddie is on her own anger. It makes her easy to pity, but it makes it hard for her to be a sympathetic character. I feel for her, but at the same time, I find her irritating and that’s a real issue for me. This scene also highlights how much we don’t know. If Levi is the one with motive, why was Maddie accused of murder too? She obviously found Levi with Rosemary’s body, but what linked her to the crime? Was she accused of being an accessory after the fact? I actually wish there were more flashbacks in this series to help fill in the gaps. Regardless, Maddie is not going to stop looking for Rosemary’s killer, even if it points to Levi.

Meanwhile, Bellows gets his own bad news. His polls are dropping. Previously in the episode, Maddie went on TV and tore into him, accusing him of being corrupt and incompetent. The more vocal Maddie is, the worse his numbers drop. Bellows does have an ally in the form of Isabel, his newest prosecutorial lawyer. Isabel is overly solicitous and plays right into Bellows’ ego, which makes me think she’s playing him. Bellows’ wife doesn’t trust Isabel either and wants her gone. (There has to be some backstory there that we don’t know about yet.) She also urges Bellows to fight dirty against Maddie but he is rightly afraid that it will make Madie look even more sympathetic. The solution - change the conversation to victims’ rights. Bellows gives a press conference about one of his first trials, where the defense attorney got a murderer off. One month later, the murderer shot Isabel’s mom while she was holding her. Bellows felt responsible so he stayed in contact with the family. He then introduces the press to Isabel, the anti-Maddie, an orphaned child who has decided to dedicate her life to finding justice for victims. It is a very smart plan.

The next morning, Maddie and Easy continue looking for Tim’s real murderer. They learn that one detective had a lead on his girlfriend, Celeste, who they track to a car dealership. Easy: “She’s a used car salesman. Definitely our killer.” Celeste admits that Tim beat her but she was in Florida helping her sick mom. She’s no killer but Maddie is sure she’s hiding something. While Easy looks into Celeste, Maddie can’t stop thinking of Levi’s lie. Easy is not surprised when he hears about it though. He suspected Levi was lying from the start. Since he was Maddie’s lawyer not Levi’s, he doesn’t care. Easy: “Just because he lied, doesn’t make him a killer.” Violet breaks in to remind Maddie that she has a date with the reporter and it is the most awkward thing ever. She overshares big time until it’s a disaster. At the same time, Easy remembers that he’s late to meet Sophie’s dad, AKA Carpool Guy. His wife is justifiably annoyed because he missed the dinner he insisted on having. They argue about how his commitment to the job overshadows his commitment to his family. Easy’s wife: “I mean it’s bad enough that you forget about us, but now you’ve let the whole world know that we are still an afterthought to the Redheaded Princess.” She’s also peeved that he helped Maddie get released instead of a black prisoner, but he explains that Maddie’s case was big enough that now he can help everyone. He likes the fame and making a difference, even if his wife is frustrated and wants him to see a therapist.

Maddie goes back to the office after her date disaster to find Violet researching Tamara’s case. Celeste is a call girl and Tim was her pimp. Bodie takes pictures of the dealership’s side brothel business until he is busted by the cops for loitering. Bodie: “Can’t a guy take pictures of hookers in peace anymore?” He also finds that the owner of the car dealership is not only Celeste’s husband but also her new pimp. Easy: “Marriage is a tricky business.” Ha! Furthermore, he married Celeste right after Tim’s death. It’s all very suspicious. Maddie is sympathetic to the prostitutes after her stint in prison. Easy: “Celeste doesn’t seem like the type of woman who wants to get out or turn on her handlers.” Maddie: “Agreed. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.” They agree to help but no one has a plan how. In the end, Maddie badgers Celeste into meeting with Tamara. Celeste claims she didn’t know that Tamara was arrested since she was in Florida. Maddie encourages Celeste to tell her life story, but she is too afraid to testify. Still, Maddie tells Tamara that it’s an opportunity anyway. They know what happened. Now they need proof. Maddie and Easy con the salesman/bodyguard into thinking that he will take the fall for Tim’s murder and so he confesses to watching Celeste’s husband do it. Since Maddie and Easy are wired, viola, case closed. Tamara is finally free. Maddie takes a step towards freedom too when she finally visits Rosemary’s grave to say goodbye and promise that she will find her killer.

Violent: “This week’s episode is a tale of two women who never met, but both were trapped in prison. One had her freedom taken away for no other reason than bad luck, and another was locked in a cycle of mental and physical abuse. What they have in common is the same monsters imprisoned them both with their lies. There is a gender bias that we see over and over again in wrongful conviction. Men are believed and women are ignored and it is the burden of hiding the truth that will tug on a person’s soul or irrevocably alter another’s life. But until we can speak our truth and have another human being not just listen to us but believe us, we can never be truly free.”

VERDICT:

Overall, I think this series has potential. Generally procedurals are told from the prosecutor's side so it fills a void. The cases have been interesting and the Maddie vs. Bellows dynamic shines, especially if they both continue to have a story to tell. Maddie and Easy have good chemistry and I really like the secondary characters, Violet and Bodie. Violet’s podcast bookending the show works well too. The biggest issue lies in the writing for me. They try to throw too much into one episode and as such, the pacing gets wrecked. This may be a procedural show that would benefit from having its cases last 2-3 episodes before they move on to the next one. That would give them ample time to add in the character touches they love while still creating a compelling case narrative and allowing more background to the Rosemary mystery, which is also a strong suit. They need to tone Maddie down a touch as well. Passion is great for soundbites, but she gets out of control quickly, which is not a trait I would want in my lawyer. Also, I have no idea why they threw the race card in this episode. Sure, Easy did defend Maddie first but they have since cleared 2 African-American women. I find it hard to believe that anyone would find fault with Easy for this.


Grade: B-

Best Scene - Maddie and Easy wear wires to get a confession
Worst Scene - the date
Funniest Scene - they all agree to help Celeste but no one has a plan how to do it
Best Reason to Watch - the flashbacks that fill in pieces of the central mystery
Biggest Issue - the pacing was rushed in some parts and dragged in others
Best Character - tied - Bodie / Violet
Worst Character - Heather and not just because she’s the antagonist
Best Character Interaction - Maddie and Easy, who have good chemistry even when they’re not on the same page


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About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."

Quote of the Week - Weeks of Feb. 17 and 24

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the SpoilerTV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine -
1. Jake: “Movies are super fun. Meanwhile, real life is very boring. That’s why no one watches documentaries.” Captain Holt: “Tell that to the man sitting next to me at last Saturday afternoon’s screening of Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda.” Jake: “Was that man Kevin?” Captain Holt after a long pause: “Yes”. (Sam)
2. Rosa: “Two steps forward and one step back is still one step forward.” (Patrycja)
3. Amy: “I never told anyone because I felt like maybe I didn’t actually deserve my promotion, and I worried I wouldn’t get any more promotions if I spoke up, so….” Jake: “God, every time I think I understand how bad it is, it’s just way worse than I imagined.” Amy: “This kind of stuff has happened to literally every woman I know. I just wanted to help make it better for this one woman.”(Mads)
4. Holt: “Freeze! NYPD!” Ernest: “Is that Raymond Holt I see? You haven't changed one bit.” Holt: “Neither have you Ernest.” Ernest: “What?” Holt: “Neither have you Ernest!” Ernest: “WHAT?” Holt: “NEITHER HAVE YOU ERNEST!” (Mads)
5. Jake: “Amy's just upset because the historically entrenched patriarchy has created a culture of victim shaming that suppresses any power shift in our masculine phallic system.” (Mads)

The Cool Kids -
1. Sid: “In all fairness, a lot of people do die here. It’s like a horror movie without the suspense.”
2. Margaret: “Wow! Did you just get back from Oldchella?”
3. Hank: “This is the 5th story you’ve told today that doesn’t have a beginning, a middle, or an end.” Sid: “Yeah ladies, I feel like I’m watching Harry Potter. I’m not sure what’s going on and I’m not sure I care.”

Fam -
1. Shannon: :Oh my God, Clem, the barista was not hitting on you.” Clem: “He was, Shannon. He kept smiling, making small talk. He called me Hot Vanilla.” Shannon: “Because that's what you ordered.” (Mads)
2. Rose: “You know what? I'm gonna take off my relaxation silks and put on my ‘what the hell did I do to deserve this’ pants!” (Mads)
3. Shannon: “I honestly think that that whole getting his head stuck in a banister thing was it was a real wake-up call for him.” (Mads)
4. Linda: “Can I get the steak?” Freddy: “No. You know the drill. Chicken or cheaper.” (Mads)

Fresh Off the Boat -
1. Eddie: “Mom, I don’t think this is how a principal is supposed to behave.” Jessica: “Shadow principal.” Eddie: “A shadow principal who puts too much pressure on her son and now he’s terrified to lose.” Jessica: “I only want him to be the absolute best at everything he does all the time. Is that so wrong?” Eddie: “Yes, Evan needs to learn to chill or he won’t be able to roll with the punches when things don’t go perfect for him.” Jessica: “Chillin’ is just giving yourself permission to fail. That might be your technique but it’s not mine.” Eddie: “Well your methods just sent Evan running into the boys’ locker room. He hates that place. He usually changes in the car.”
2. Jessica: “That’s how it starts. It goes arcade, pool hall, drug corner, 7-10 in the pen.” Eddie: “3-5 with a good attorney.”
3. Jessica: “We’re not getting HBO. If I want to see Italians being ruthless, I’ll just watch the boys playing Super Mario Bros.”
4. Jessica: “Teach me how to run.” Honey: “Oh no, who’d you kill?”
5. Louis: “Being an adult, and especially being in an adult relationship, means not giving up when things get hard.” Eddie: “Being an adult sucks.” Louis: “Yep, but not always, and having a partner who pushes you to be better makes it suck less. Look at your mother. I never would have achieved my dreams if it wasn’t for her pushing me. She’s a strong, incredible woman. She’s our rock.”
6. Louis: “The Golden Prune and connecting with my son on the same day? What did I do to deserve this?” Eddie: “I’m gonna need you to take it down like 50%.” Louis: “I can give you 10 but that’s it.”

Gone -
1. Kick: “Wait. You hacked the DMV and you didn’t fix my speeding ticket?”
2. James: “Is this some kind of reunion? All the kids you rescued get a free trip to Palm Springs.”
3. James: “I thought maybe we could help.” Kit: “I must have missed the Bat signal. You get the Bat car and I will get my cape.” James: “It’s the Batmobile actually.”

Magnum PI -
1. TC: “Hey, we lost Nuzo. We’re not gonna lose Thomas. Wherever he is, whatever it takes, we’re gonna find our boy.”
2. Katsumoto to Magnum: “I was wrong. You and Higgins are equally annoying.”
3. Rick to TC: “First of all, I can’t believe you know what Spanx are. I’m very disappointed.”
4. Higgins: “There have been absolutely no withdrawals in the last 12 hours whatsoever, so that leads me to think that it’s possible this wasn’t about money.” TC: “Let me stop you right there. This is definitely not about money because Thomas doesn’t have any.”
5. Juliet: “Has anyone ever explained karma to you?”

A Million Little Things -
1. Katherine: “What's going on? What is it?” Eddie: “I want to come home. There's nothing I want more, but I promised you no more lies, so there is something I need to tell you.” (DarkUFO)
2. Maggie: “Everyone responds to tragedy in different ways. It's never just one stone; it's a bunch of stones stacked up on each other.” (DarkUFO)
3. Gary: “Even after all this, you're still my best friend. Jon, you used to say that everything happens for a reason which I thought was ridiculous. But I found that reason. You would have loved her. Maybe she's right. Maybe I tried to save her like I couldn't save you. I wish I could have saved you. I'm sorry I didn't. I just want to say the one thing I never got to say. Goodbye.” (DarkUFO)

NCIS: NOLA -
1. Pride: “What’s happening here is blackmail. None of it’s on you and a lot more innocent people are going to get hurt unless we stop Norman Wong.” Hannah: “I don’t want the team to get caught in the crossfire. I need to do this alone.” Pride: “Not your choice to make. We’re in this together, no matter what.”
2. Hannah: “Arrest history?” Gregorio: “Drunk and disorderly, some misdemeanor drug charges.” Chris: “In New Orleans, we call that Tuesday.”
3. Hannah: “Oliver Crane was a journalist?” Gregorio: “That’s a word for it. He prefered sound bites and sensationalism over facts.”
4. Hannah: “Are you threatening me, Mr. Wong?” Wong: “No, threatening a federal agent is a felony. I’m offering you some valuable advice.” Hannah: “And what is that?” Wong: “We all have secrets. I’ll respect yours if you respect mine.”

The Passage -
1. Lila: "What's going on with Amy? Is she symptom free?" Brad: "No. Hell no. She's connected to the rest of them somehow. She's stronger, faster, psychic. She's not listening to me." Lila: "That's not the virus. That's puberty." Brad: "I know. Which is also catastrophic." (Prpleight)

The Rookie -
1. Lucy, reading what Tim wrote in his prediction about her plainclothes day: “Officer Chen second-guessed every decision she made.” Tim: “The whole point of me doing this was to get under your skin.” Lucy: “Clearly you did, sir.” Tim: “Yeah, until the end, because when it really counted you put everything on the line and made the right call.” (Ellys)
2. Nolan: “I'm just so focused on being seen as a man of action, not some cop who's half out to pasture.” Talia: “You want my advice? Stop trying to be like the other rookies 'cause you're not. Jackson is 20 years from having his first colonoscopy, and Lucy's never even owned a pet. You're a grown man, so stop treating that like a liability and treat it like what it is: a strength. Sure you can be annoying and you talk way too damn much. But you also listen...to people's troubles, to their complaints, and that type of empathy can't be taught.” (Ellys)

Single Parents -
1. Will: “Tracy Freeze is already riding me really hard because of all my pronunciation slip-ups like when I botched ‘thunder.’ “ Angie: “It is really weird how you call it "thundle".” (Mads)
2. Poppy: “You never tried fun?” Douglas: “Well, there's a game on my phone where you try to make squares.” (Mads)
3. Tracey: “Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go pick out tonight's murders.” (Mads)
4. Graham: “Is he okay? I thought my strongest muscle was my heart, but apparently, it's my right bicep.” (Mads)
5. Angie: “All right, we just need to find some dude stuff for you guys to bond over. I mean, how about mowing grass?” Graham: “We don't have a lawnmower.” Angie: “Uh, what about Pac-Man? Gossiping at the barbershop? Uh, putting food inside another food?” Emma: :Have you met a man before?” Angie: “Um, help me out here. Googling "boobs"?” Sophie: “Okay, gendering things might be outdated, but you are really bad at it.” Owen: “Angie, can I talk to you for a second over by the toaster?” Angie: “Oh! Toaster! Hot stuff! Toast? Bread? Boxers or briefs?” (Mads)
6. KBS: “I really like how you yelled at everyone like that. I got daddy issues. I was into it.” (Mads)

Siren -
1. Ryn: "I meet Maddie with Ben." Susan (Maddie's Mother): "Oh. Okay. Maddie really seems to love that Ben." Ryn: "Yes. Ben is love." Susan: "Oh. That's sweet." Ryn: "I would like to make love with Ben and Maddie." ~~~Most mother's don't even want to hear about their kid's traditional sex life. Susan's reaction was priceless. (Prpleight)

Speechless -
1. Maya: "I hate that him sidling up means you sidling up too." (Mads)
2. Ray: "Who said 'Supreme Ruler?' " Dylan: "[Beep] keep my name out of your mouth." (Mads)
3. Ray: "The bear's watching us." Kenneth: "Mhm, keep smiling so it doesn't suspect." (Mads)
4. Kenneth: "Wasn't that suspicious? How weird are we normally?" (Mads)
5. Maya: "The fact is, I think New York is going to have to get ready for you." (Mads)
6. Maya: "Maybe I blacked out like the time I graffiti'd 'Ray's mom is hot' on my own car." (Mads)

Whiskey Cavalier -
1. Will: “Ray, I’m too bruised to bro out.”
2. Will: “Well the good news is it’s a through and through.” Frankie: “And the bad news.” Will: “There doesn’t always have to be bad news.”
3. Boss: “Why the 2 am emails to the other agents requesting suggestions for your break-up playlist?” Will: “I was leaning a little hard on the Bonnie Tyler. I thought I could use some fresh eyes.”

Young Sheldon -
1. Mary: “Sheldon, hang up the phone. It's dinner time.” Sheldon: “Be right there, Mom. I'm doing battle with corporate America.” (Julia)
2. Sheldon, meeting his teacher at the grocery store: “This is strange, I never think of you as existing outside of school.” Teacher: “Well, it turns out I do.” Sheldon: “And you're here buying food.” Teacher: “I am.” Sheldon: “Fascinating.” (Julia)

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."