Her dismissal of the mom jeans alone should go on her reel.

Does Coulter know how to drive a car? Because when she asked for Boreal’s keys I was very confused about how she intended to drive it, but I guess she made it there okay? Did she have to parallel park? I want to see those scenes, dammit.

Please, someone give Ruth Wilson a giant pile of acting awards. She is fantastic in this.

For me it’s a combination of factors.

I only now realized how many Italian names there are in this story: Carlo, Marisa, Belacqua, Costa, and of course everybody in Cittàgazze. As an Italian, it’s kind of weird.

Adding a scene where Coulter and Malone interact directly pushes this from a “maybe someday” to “yes I will definitely give it a try.” Made sense in the books, which aren’t from the the adult perspective IMO - even the scenes with them are more about how they’re going to interact with Lyra/Will - but this also makes…

It was nice that they finally let Boba Fett do something useful and cool in a Star Wars story.  He’s been skating on his reputation for 40 years now.

She’s literally 15 right now and in the picture she... looks it. She’s just a teenage girl wearing make-up, high heels and a nice dress.

I knew she was in her teens, but I looked up her up and found out her real life dad is now the head of the Magisterium, William Keen.

No time jump. As you say, they shot seasons 1-2 at the same time, and now two years have passed before they’ll be shooting season 3, so Keen will have gone from 13 to 15. But she can easily still play the same age, just like Millie Bobbie Brown, who aged about the same from the first season of Stranger Things until…

But Maisie went from like 15-23 over the course of Game of Thrones. That’s way different than 13-15 for Keen. It’s more like a Millie Bobby Brown situation, who can (I suppose) look adult, but plays her age regularly. Keen can definitely look age appropriate if there is a season 3 (which I still think is only 50/50),…

No she does not she looks about 15...

Man, Ruth Wilson has a magnetic quality. Loved the close-ups of her face. She looked fab in that red outfit.

I don’t know how much more obvious it needs to be. They’re obviously a priesthood, wandering around in cassocks, and in this episode they basically go through a leadership selection process very similar to that of the Catholic church, with the ritual burning of paper slips etc.

Gimmie some barking dogs. Clearly to be a guard, you have to have a dog daemon.

I think by “this” Magisterium, he was referring to the members -- the make up of THE Magisterium? 

i always imagined rachel weisz playing mary malone back in the day, but simone kirby is even better, i think it’s brilliant casting.

It’s definitely an incredible theme song. Very simple but infectious memorable motif.

I really enjoy this show’s opening credits and theme song. I know they were going for a GoT feel but, well, the credits at least have gotten there 85/90% of the way. I like when visual clues in the credits pay off in the show. It’s maybe not much of a compliment, but out of a 50 minute episode each outing, at least 3…

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