4.0
The Originals 1.14 “The Long Road to Hell”
… is paved with good intentions? Not from this bunch, c’mon! The Mikaelsons are the current example of shows built around the villains, not the...
4.0
4.0
The Originals 1.13 “Crescent City”
This episode requires a sports metaphor. If only I knew any of those. You know that feeling when your team is on a winning streak, plowing through...
4.0
The Originals 1.12 “Dance Back From the Grave”
Layers wrapped in mystery unfolding before our eyes. The writers have found their groove at this point in the season, and it’s clear that they had...
3.5
The Originals 1.11 “Après Mois, Le Déluge”
While not really a mess, this episode was packed with so many role changes and reversals it was a little hard keeping up. Rebekah is pursuing her...
4.5
The Originals 1.10 “The Casket Girls”
This is how you come back from a winter hiatus. This may be the best episode of the series yet. It pulls on all the threads that have already been...
3.0
The Originals 1.09 “Reigning Pain in New Orleans”
Klaus, Klaus, Klaus. Whatever can be done with you? Will you ever learn subtlety? You’ve got sneakiness down. You’re a great liar. You certainly...
2.5
The Originals 1.08 “The River in Reverse”
God how much do I hate Klaus? Let me run it down for you. This is the big confrontation week where he was supposed to get his comeuppance. Where he...
3.0
The Originals 1.07 “Bloodletting”
Davina’s been making a lot of new friends lately. The overly sheltered junior witch first went clubbing with Cami, and then she woke up Elijah and...
3.5
The Originals 1.06 “Fruit of the Poisoned Tree”
Is that a metaphor I sense winding its way through the various plot threads of this episode? If so, it’s kind of a first for this show, which has...
3.5
The Originals 1.05 “Sinners and Saints” Review
There's more to this witch thing than meets the eye. We've been treated to an overload of vampire flashbacks, and far fewer wolf worries, but while...
2.0
The Originals 1.04 “Girl in New Orleans”
This show is revealing its weaknesses too early. They are, unsurprisingly: Klaus. When the most memorable thing about an episode is how cruel he is...
3.0
The Originals 1.03 “Tangled Up in Blue” Review
Nothing really wrong with this episode, it’s just kind of perfunctory. The central point of it is Romeo and Juliet played by a vampire and a witch...
3.5
The Originals 1.02 “House of the Rising Son” Review
You're not going to believe this. Klaus is the exposition fairy this week. Klaus, of all people. And he does it twice, once in a flashback to where...
3.0
The Originals 1.01 “Always and Forever”
About the only thing the cool Originals (Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson) can rely on: their half-brother Klaus will always be an asshole. That’s the...