She’s starting to feel conflicted about sex work, so she’s trying to pull off one last con that would leave her with enough start capital for a new life. It makes her a bit of a bad girl, sure, but not necessarily one-dimensional. I mean, you heard Bert about the unemployment rate in Sicily. She’s got dreams and not…

It’s certainly very different than last season.

She showed the picture of her blond and blue eyed kid “accidentally” after telling Harper about the blonde blue eyed trainer she sees regularly to take her mind off her husband. Get it? I think the article author also missed this point.

I totally read the kids’ photo as implying they aren’t actually Cam’s…

You wash your mouth out with bleach (try not to swallow, dear, it does nothing for covid) for daring to impune that the ever-adorable Amy would want to stoop to something so...malignant.

“Sure, a young twenty something and attractive woman wouldn’t find an older man that attractive, but Giuseppe isn’t bad-looking. He reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson. But glad Mia stopped equivocating and embraced breaking bad.”

Yeah, I find the characterization of Giuseppe actually kinda interesting.  Yes, he’s…

I agree with your read on Harper. It’s been clear even before this episode that she feels insecure and uncomfortable and that a lot of her supposed tell it like it is behavior is just false bravado.

I forgot to shout out Bert’s cogent assessment last episode about the ways in which the old are no longer respected but instead reviled as ugly reminders of less enlightened pasts. (Admittedly, Bert is clearly cut from the sexual harassments cloth, but he’s also astute.) I think Bert’s lament that he may never again…

I went back to the first episode to check the dialogue between Valentina and Rocco about the bodies:

We know it’s not a red herring because Rocco tells Valentina in the first episode that there are “more dead guests.” Granted, initially that didn’t count Lucia and Mia, but now they’re on the guest register and their deaths would make Rocco technically correct.

A sci-fi setting would be quite the departure. But the anthology series could get away from the water with a hotel catering to African safaris or walkabouts in the Australian bush.

I think Albie and Portia are interesting only in that Albie believes he is acting differently because he is using different language. Regardless, he is still constantly calculating how to have sex with Portia even if its in a more politically correct way.

“I’m the sucker who thought Cameron and Daphne were being written against type and had the more emotionally healthy and loving marriage." Me too!

I think Daphne flips the loneliness of men argument around though when she describes the psychopaths her husband works with (and mitigates her husbands own dangerous tendencies). Men have created this predatory structure and any sense of loneliness is ultimately their creation, the women need to move in herds to…

The complaint about the show’s graphic depiction of labor is strange. House of the Dragon, like Game of Thrones, is a show where a lot of violent things happen. Unlike Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is to a significant extent a show about women. The central conflict on the show is between two women, with a third…

As someone who gives no shits whatsoever regarding the source material, this was a pretty great season.  Properly epic all the way around, well-acted and told, and most of the ‘subplots’ were pretty interesting and well-handled.  Final episode gets knocked down a full grade for having no dwarves, but aside from that…

The time jump was the worst kind. It shunted the characters as they existed at the end of episode 2 forward in time, but did not give them 3 years of character development. It glossed over the things the writers wanted to jettison, and it progressed the things they wanted to retain, all without putting the work in.…

Yeah, I thought her read that that was Viserys’ dragon was odd, especially considering how Daemon reacted to his brother’s offer of help. Plus, the rider was clearly the Laenor Velaryon.

I think the recapper has this all wrong. There was one dragon at the end and it was ridden by Laenor (who is a Targ through his mom the Queen Who Never Was) and probably got an egg from her when he was a baby.

I hope the future time jumps are less jarring, Damon melting pirates only to immediately jump 3 years was not great.  Also the Crabfeeder got Blackfished and he never had a single line.  Oh well.