Sue just continues to be unbelievably excellent. I know it's de rigueur to imagine that every expansion of a bit character would be terrible but if handled well I'd like to see Sue's role beefed up just slightly.

Yeah, I'm with you for some part here. Especially since I think Dan would be inclined to supermodel on an image thing but ultimately not really. He's so doggedly focused on work I think that'd be incidental to him. And that's why I think he would be attracted to Amy who is excellent at her job.

Which is incidentally why I preferred the previous two installments to this one. This was still good, but the focus on Selina's myopic personality (which has seemed even more overt than usual, as you point out).

This is probably silly of me but for some reason I felt that the woman flayed was NOT the woman who spoke to Sansa assuming that there is no way Ramsay would know who the woman is. And in this way I thought it was a call back to Theon killing to boys instead of Rickon and Brann.

I'll put this here instead of last week, because it applies this week again: I'm so confused by the criticisms of Sansa's rape last week being used a tool to bolster Theon's storyline. Do we not agree that both Sansa and Theon have been sexually assaulted by Ramsay? I mean, I presume, we'd quibble on whether it was…

Sorry for the delayed, reply. Sure, you can contact me through the blog.

Do you write elsewhere? I'd love for this to be shared somewhere, this is just lovely analysis.

I'll always appreciate seeing such detailed and expressive writing on the comment sections of these sites. So that when people say "it's only TV" I think, but you can still write excellent analysis on it.

The one linked to "this extensive blog post" - which seems like Emily's way of saying I talk too much. (Which is accurate.)

Don the Black Hole.

I think he was ambiguous until last season when he came into Lockhart Gardner for no reason but to destroy the firm. That arc took him from nuanced to a mustache twirling villain, for me, so I'm not very intrigued at his reappearance.

They need to divorce. That moment with Alicia telling him not to run annoyed me and I got Peter in that moment. This is Peter Florrick, the man who left his home when he was under house arrest to plead his case to his estranged wife. I don't know if the Kings will bother with the continuity but I'll buy that he'll…

This was such a beautiful comment. And the point on Baranski being so lovely in that Simone scene and she's a peripheral character at best (Simone). Wouldn't it have been nice if we had ONE scene where Kalinda and Diane had a moment since Baranski is one record as wanting her?

YES!!! And I hate NOT loving the moment because as you mention, female friendships are great and giving them main arc focus is lovely (see DAMAGES), but this just isn't earned and I hated Kalinda being this sort of simper thing in that moment to yet again validate Alicia who, as the show portrays her, is no saint and…

I shall reiterate my comment from last week. The show being called The Good Wife does not emphatically or exclusively speak to it being about one single thing.

Hot damn, they link to a blog post I made on the Kalinda/Alicia dynamic in the post! (I'd have never read this, so thanks, and now I'm embarrassed my ridiculous blog is out there.)

Yup, Robert King, that Kalinda/Alicia episode COMPLETELY made up for the intentional 50 episode division of the two actors. I completely believed there's no behind-the-scenes drama. *sigh*

Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with you there, rather emphatically.

Yup, as you said: "Intentional gimmick", to which I say: What bullshit. Robert King's response to the ambiguity of the scene:

And, also, of course taking the previous week's episode into account, Brienne is still holding Renly's death as a grudge whereas Loras wasn't given any sort of emotional reaction to that. (Unless I misremember.)