Oooh probably! Which would perhaps explain why that plot’s been consigned to the episode tags - if most of the season was scripted and shooting before they got the s7 commission (which would make sense - s6 was filmed from July-December, and the recommission came in November) then they possibly didn’t intend to go…

I’ve been finding myself disillusioned with the show for the back half of this season. I think it comes down to a few reasons:

I’ve just found out Davis was in an episode of season 1! He then didn’t show up until season 4 (and I didn’t really pay him any attention until his brilliant heroism-story-running-gag in season 5) but he was in way back in episode 9.

The skits from Corden are much better than Fallon’s, and show a lot of imagination and originality that Fallon lacks.

That’s a lovely story. I sincerely hope you enjoy the movie :)

Even James Corden watched the trailer and went ‘I can’t believe they cast that prick in this.’

That would be because it’s specifically for children, and because they’ve basically made losses on most of their recent output. Shaun the Sheep Movie made quite a bit of money because they kept their outgoings very low - but also, because it’s a silent film/franchise, they were able to sell it internationally very…

Aardman still have an amazing hit rate. It’s a shame about Early Man - I don’t know if proper football fans would have found it entertaining, but this non-football fan found it kind of a slog when it turned into just being about football, after a promising start about a culture clash. But that’s their weakest, and…

I swear if the film involves the Girls going to Pepperland I will go to the midnight showing dressed as Baby Spice.

Season 3 was very, very uneven, but it did still have a lot of moments/episodes of brilliance at least as good as the first two seasons. Jeremy Bearimy especially. Here’s hoping Megan Amram writes most of season 4 (and, hey, Mike Schur can do a few too).

Yes, awards are inherently bunk - but if you are going to have a distinction between TV and film then at this point the delivery format is the only thing that distinguishes the two.

Honestly, I don’t actually see how one can argue against his line of thinking, because if ‘the experience’ isn’t the distinction, then what on Earth is? Single installment? We’ve had that in TV for decades in the form of both TV movies and anthology series. Serialisation? The most watched films of the last decade or…

I can’t argue with what you’ve said, but frankly I found it just delightful. I may be giving the show some lenience because I want - and I think the show wants - to get everyone together and in a good place to move forward sooner rather than later. Simmons, for example, is in an incredibly complicated place now…

It should be about 3% faster, with more edits, and with Smith’s Genie doing a lot more stuff like the ostrich surfing. He shouldn’t (and legally can’t) do exactly what Williams’ Genie did, but he should still be doing all sorts of crazy shit, interacting with and stirring up the crowd. Maybe there’s more in the rest…

I *think* it was supposed to go like this: Dany kills and murders people who deserve it, and are also in her way. More and more she focuses on the people who are in her way over the people who deserve it. Her real motives are revealed not as wanting to save people who need saving but as wanting to rule them, with…

Brienne’s sobbing last week was no more out of character than her crying with happiness two episodes before. Neither crying nor laughing is weakness, Brienne was as strong as she always was, she just reached a point - perhaps the first point ever - where she needed to.

While the episode was still going on I had pretty much exactly the same thing in mind - both of Dany’s last dragons should have survived to this episode, then Rhaegal could have been killed after or even during the confrontation with the Iron Fleet in this episode, which would have a) added to Dany’s anger in the…

Great review. You don’t fancy sticking around to review the rest of the season by any chance?

““Chapter Eighty-Seven” is written and directed by men, but the presence of women behind the scenes, particularly the central controlling force of showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman, gives writer Rafael Agustin and director Eric Lea plenty of insight into how to depict these stories with depth, precision, and empathy.”

Doctor Who - Human Nature, The Family of Blood, Blink. Admittedly a two-parter in there, but what a two-parter.