My bff and I regularly use an inverted-V hand gesture to reference Nancy's pointy shoes dragging along the ground as she levitated toward her doomed prey. This frequently gives rise to dramatic recitations of "He's sorry!! He's sorry!!"

This episode, like most episodes, needed more Alan Cumming.

That's (of course) a good idea. Would recent solo albums of his give me a good idea of what this one is like? I guess my main concern is that the only vocals I can hear in the track preview (stentorian spoken narration) could be pervasive through the whole album and that might be a new thing for Eno that wouldn't be…

Well I like other music that Eno's been involved in, and I really liked the way this review described the new album. But usually I like to get a somewhat representative sonic exposure before pulling the trigger on buying an album.

Please be kind to me, hardcore music nerds (I really am one of you, just educated much more about music written between 1600 and 1930)…

That re-release was really demoralizing for me. I was so excited for it and bought tickets well in advance assuming it was going to be a sold-out, psyched crowd, but then the theater was practically empty. Kids today, etc.

Yes, and I loved how long the ambiguity persisted into Elizabeth's subsequent words into Martha's ear. As she talked, my interpretation morphed several times, which was amazing. My stream of thought: she's fatally stabbed, Elizabeth's comforting/apologizing, wait Elizabeth's actually comforting herself and subtly…

I actually loved that line, and it made me admire how the character is struggling to reconcile the trust she yearns to feel with common sense amidst some serious adrenaline and emotional turmoil. Seems like a pretty believable way to voice that plaintive conflict.

She would be a fascinating character to continue to watch develop. I'm curious whether her apparently all-enduring love of Philip might transmogrify into loyalty to the Soviet cause. But once she's no longer in contact with Philip and permanently separated from all the main characters by an ocean, I fear we won't see…

I'm surprised there doesn't appear to be a plan at some level of the chain of command to simply "lose" her in an "accident". I had expected that the directors wouldn't bother spending resources to actually move her, but would simply promise this to the field agents who will care (to maintain their trust). But I guess…

I was assuming for a long time that Alicia was on some long-term redemption arc. Because, yeah, she became super unlikeable, somewhat indefensible really. And DHP's Prady as the completely lovely election opponent seemed an obvious foil for that purpose.

Midwesterners aren't the biggest huggers.

And here I thought she already celebrated her last fuckable day. I'm sure she'd be thrilled to learn it was premature.

Is it unneighborly of me to wish the GoT drones would just let the Veep post be about Veep? I'm starting to feel about GoT like I did about Avatar: I'll volunteer to not watch it just so there's at least one person in America who's not watching it.

Nope, I think pretty much every returning-coverage show gets a pre-premiere season overview piece here leading up to the resuming episode-by-episode write-ups. (And has for quite some time.)

I liked the escalation from "Rachel H2" to "David 5".

Seriously. That project has some problems, but it seems like Hill is on a rampaging mission to single-handedly force it to succeed, and she's pretty much succeeding. I would watch her in just about anything.

Pretty much agreed. Though I'm really bugged by how convenient the climax was.

Yeah… this was quite tiresome.

Hey OB fans, I guess season 3 lost me somewhat early on and I never felt motivated to catch up. Curious about:
1) Anyone else felt similarly?
2) Is season 4 a reinvigoration (vs more of the same)?
3) Any particularly good reason to finish watching season 3 before giving a go to season 4? I don't care about spoilers.