This is gross

I immediately ctrl + f to find Hannibal. I mean I guess it's a 70's arthouse giallo pysch-drama romance, but there's a lot of true horror going on in there as well (basically, the man pulling himself from a tableau would like a word with the AV Club writers).

I agree, but apparently the show runners did see it as rape, it was the director who didn't (I don't know if that makes it any better). Although I'm somebody who thought that scene between Jaime and Cersei was rape in the books as well, so I find its inclusion less problematic than the fact that there weren't any…

Urgh, does how attractive you find them really matter?

I guess fake-Moody/Barty Crouch Jr. waited until the final task because Voldemort wasn't ready to announce his comeback yet? I think the plan was to just kill Harry in that graveyard and then send his body back, and people would think something had just happened in the maze. As it was, people didn't believe Harry when…

Yeah, considering the "money buys a man's silence for a time, a bolt in the heart buys it forever" comment after he killed Ser Dontos, I'd be a bit worried I were Lysa/Robin.

I thought it was a nice callback that the excuse Sansa used - that LF had called her a "stupid little girl with stupid dreams, who never learns" - was something she'd said about herself to Margaery in Season 3's The Bear and the Maiden Fair.

But Lysa seems like the kind of person who *would* just blurt it out. As we see, she isn't really into subtlety, and lacks any kind of filter.

I really, REALLY hate the Christina de Souza character. So I also wish that I hadn't seen PotD, you aren't missing anything good.

Yeah, exactly. I saw the scene in the book as rape so I don't think it's a massive deviation from the Jaime we know in the novel (on a side note, it's also horrifying when I hear people talking of how in the book it isn't really rape because "Cersei just didn't want to have sex in that location". Whatever reason she…

Yay! Also glad that they seem to be addressing that the relationship between Daya and Bennett is kind of gross, I thought last season they kind of glossed over the problematic power dynamics.

I think it's Olenna, using something to do with Sansa's necklace (I saw that suggested elsewhere, so I can't take credit for that idea, and with maybe the help of Varys or Littlefinger (or both?). We know that they're the master-schemers of the story, and Varys dislikes Joffrey and Littlefinger wants chaos/wants Sansa.

In Tom and Lorenzo's recap they noted how Megan's comments about the sound in the canyons is similar to the start of Helter Skelter - “It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon.
The canyons above Hollywood…

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Although he did put the goblet down, didn't he? So somebody could've slipped something in it when he was doing his cake-dance.

It's a shame he's quitting acting (although he's extremely intelligent and he'll make a fantastic academic/teacher), as he's so bloody talented. I don't think he gets enough credit because people are so busy hating Joff, but he really is extraordinary.

I mean, obviously it was cathartic to see such a sadistic, awful person get their comeuppance. But at the same time, I thought that the way it was done - the really hideous effect that the poison has upon him, coupled with Jack Gleeson's tremendous performance and Cersei's devastation - seemed to drive it home that…

I'm pretty sure if Bran started smiling after relishing slowly stabbing someone then I would be pretty worried, yes, because it's down that path that madness lies. And yes, Polliver 'deserved' it. But so do most people in Westeros. Doesn't the Hound 'deserve' it, as much as we love him as a character? And Arya's list…

I agree, but I think there's a difference between having to kill someone for survival, and enjoying killing somebody for revenge. I don't think the glee she took in killing him was meant to be a good thing, I think it was meant to be pretty disturbing.

Yeah, that smile when she killed Polliver was chilling - on the one hand it was super cathartic for the audience and we all want to see Arya being a badass, but on the other hand it shows that she's heading down a very bad road.