• Fairly slow start, but also intense. Watching Ellie take care of Joel, spoon water into his mouth, leave him food… ugh, it was so heartbreaking. Her sleeping next to him while he moved his head against hers gave me a lump.

I’m an atheist myself and am naturally suspicious of the motives of any self-declared “man of God”, but really, for the past twenty or thirty years, it would be more of a twist for a preacher in a movie or TV show to actually be a good guy given that the default is that they are a crook and/or a pedophile.

That last point is actually something to consider. The infamous Mary “Typhoid Mary” Mallon wasn’t symptomatic for typhoid fever but she could (and did) pass it on to dozens of other people in the early 20th century.

They subverted the usual evil pastor trope somewhat by David basically admitting the preacher thing was just a ruse to maintain control over the sheep who followed him.

—It’ll be a crying shame if this show gets overlooked at the Emmys, this episode should be Bella Ramsey’s submittal

Attempted sexual assault. As soon as they captured Ellie, that horrible thought did flash through my mind, but I figured the game never did that and the show wasn’t going to, you know, to a 14 year old girl. Still, very, very traumatic to Ellie and she’s probably gonna be haunted by her own justified rage: you could…

Well, the show certainly raised my bloodlust sky high. If I were Ellie, I would have stabbed him a bunch more times. They kept increasing David’s pure evilness. First he’s a violent, narcissistic authoritarian, then a cannibal, then a pedophile. (Real world priests and authority figures are usually two out of three of…

So the warning of “brief nudity” in the parental guide notes was the decapitated human dead hanging upside down in the shed. Who said irony was dead?

This episode was absolutely brutal, but I really enjoyed it. I give The Last of Us a lot of credit for not sugarcoating its violence. The physical and emotional consequences of this level of brutality feel real.

Sounds like a Fringe event (he was in that show too!).

He was in Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe. He was quietly there all along in a bunch of stuff.

Boo souls!

Catching Amy Adams in S5 always gets me, too.  

Is there anybody NOT rooting for Tom and Greg to take down the entire Roy family?

I’m rooting for them to bring in Haley Joel Osment as a long-lost Roy child who suddenly becomes Logan’s favorite and stirs up a bunch of family shit.

Kinda the opposite to Rudd in the sense that Statham looked 40 twenty years ago and hasn't changed whereas Rudd still looks 30.

So that pirate king was definitely Swamp Thing. We’re finally getting that sweet Star Wars/DC crossover event!

His turn in Spy is one of the most hilarious things ever to happen in a Paul Feig movie.

What’s the point of the comparison other than in the broadest terms: “these are both shows in a franchise”? Andor is like a 70s political thriller. Mando is a spaghetti western. Neither one “does” something to the other.

Some of us like episodic Westerns