Pick-up artist douche-bros where short-brimmed Trillbys, which lots of folks mistake for a Fedora. As a swing dancer, vintage clothing enthusiast and jazz musician I say go for it. But you need a decent tie (vintage design preferable) or at a minimum a nice collared shirt. Wearing a hat like that with rumpled casual…

And "Gladiator"

Have you read "Fin Gall" by James L. Nelson? It's book one of a (so far) three book series set in Viking age Ireland. Extremely well researched and well written. A slightly harder edge to it than Cornwell's series with a very slight touch of the supernatural thrown in to make for good story telling. Highly recommended.

As a former fight choreographer I can tell you — it's always in our contract. We get to swing from something. Chandeliers, curtains, tapestries, unusually sturdy torch brackets — we're not picky. If the budget is tight, we'll settle for getting to leap off a staircase. For all that this is a well-researched bit of…

The Knee-walk of Shame showed up briefly in one of the previews! Looking forward to that. But I agree, this Aethelwolf is not nearly as entertaining as the one in the book. ShowAethelwolf is whiny, pudding-faced putz.

Geats are one of the two biggest "tribes" in Sweden during this period (the other being the eponimous Svear), so yeah, Beowulf is a Viking.

Is it just me, or did Uhtred's "Danish" accent seem much more pronounced this episode? I could be that I've been too busy paying attention to everything else and he's always sounded like that, or maybe a conscious decision to emphasize him as a lone "Dane" amidst a sea of Saxons. But it just seemed to me that Uhtred…

[Daesim is then brutally killed by a character whose name you cannot remember for reasons that either haven't been clearly communicated or you just can't seem to give a f**k about.]

For just a moment there, as he's hitching up his pants and adjusting his tunic, I was genuinely worried that they were implying Aethelwolf had had sex with a pig. Now had this been Game of Thrones or South Park that would be no big deal, but in Cornwell's well-researched historic fiction that's not what one generally…

I'm not so sure she's really lost. They're changing her arc some from the books and since they, like Thrones, have to streamline the number of characters and find engaging ways to unpack exposition she's being used more and more to help articulate some big ideas (Danish vs. Saxon identity, roles & agency of women in…

"Scots" are just some bogey man made up by incompetent English shepherds who can't keep track of all their sheep. Unlike the completely real Nac Mac Feegle…

Aethelswine

And apparently fixed Selina some milk and cookies. Unless Selina interrupted Lee's dessert and stole her seat when she showed up. I'm actually kind of OK with the Wile E. Coyote and Sheepdog routine when Gordon shows up at the apartment, even if it does make Selina's gun waving a bit superfluous and an empty threat…

Careful with those metaphors, IminyJo. In AHS Land the "It's Raining Men" montage would probably be preceded by industrial-scale dismemberment…

I was also picking up a George Clooney vibe from O, Brother Where Art Thou? since his was such a winking, meta performance as Mustachioed Hollywood Leading Man with Great Hair. (He's a Dapper Dan man.)
But yeah, I can totally see the Kids in the Hall thing, too.

I'm glad he's got a part this season that's something other than the "misunderstood loner." He did that well, but watching him channel George Clooney channeling Golden Age Hollywood Leading Man is a lot of fun.

I love that Finn Witrock's Tristan appears to be the bastard love child of Morrisey and Derek Zoolander.

I never considered the Quickie Marriage option, good catch! Although I doubt it's something Ichabod would countenance. He seems the type to prefer laboriously doing it on his own rather than gaming the system, though. Calling it now: He shows up to take his citizenship text with a bottle of ink and a quill pen.
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Me, too!

Young Ichabod Crane: The Hogwarts Years