There is no maybe about it. And this isn't the place to exorcise your pet peeves.

It seems like the show's most likely way of bringing Greg back (at least for a while) would be for his father's funeral. The show has certainly set the board for Papa Serrano's declining health, and it would not only bring Greg back; it would put him in an emotionally vulnerable position where he might be tempted to…

I'm not sure if the episode actually sold the scapegoating angle, but that definitely seemed to be what they were going for.

The Departed not only pales in comparison with Infernal Affairs, it pales in comparison with most of Scorsese's latter day output. It nails the tension of the Hong Kong original, but never achieves the sense of melancholy and exhaustion at the heart of the double-deception. Add Nicholson at his laziest showboatng…

Or as a human might say, "All talk, and no shooting you with an assault rifle."

An endless mine of furry fuel? You mean DeviantArt?

It's not much of an elopement if they end up in the parents' garage. If you're going to run off together, at least have the dignity not to come crawling back because it turns out that reception venues are really expensive.

I certainly expect the Lapis/Bismuth backstory will be pretty grim, and the Bismuth sneak peek gives me some idea of what it might entail. Bismuth seems to be wearing an apron, but more like a blacksmith's apron, rather than one for the kitchen. That artisan vibe makes me think that Bismuth didn't just poof Lapis, I…

Yeah! Then since Leon has become familiar with the show's premise, he warns them that if they've been _planning_ to kill him, they better run.

Did the machine win the battle on the satellite? I thought that was all part of the Machine's diversion to keep Harold busy on the wrong building while John carried out the actual plan: reprogramming the torus antenna to prevent either ASI from going to space. The Machine just left the voice recording to teach the…

I'll throw in my nominees:

We've all come to chime in our favorite episodes, and I see a lot of consensus picks: Relevance, Zero Day/God Mode, The Devils Share, Deus Ex Machina, YHVH. What are your picks for most underrated episode, or just episodes that you liked that don't get much attention?

Did anyone else get a "Wings of Desire" vibe from the sequences of RooChine "bearing witness?"

One of the things I loved best about This. Fucking. Show. was that it never let itself be bound by a single genre or its conventions. It could do high concept sci-fi (6,741). It could do cops-n-robbers (basically the entire HR plot). It could do Bourne-style espionage (Relevance/Control). It even managed some light…

It's Westeros. They don't have "safety" anything.

I have been told I'm a pretty sharp individual.

EXTREME Nitpick corner: Varys compares Tyrion's risky plan to a "straight razor" that could give a clean shave, but possibly slit his throat. What other sort of razor would be available in their fake-medieval world?

Cleganebowl 2.0: Assuming Sandor stays with the BWB for a while, it's easy to see a potential reckoning with FrankenQyburn's creature. Every time we've seen the Lord of Light's faithful this season they've been reminding folks about the coming war between the living and the dead. Gregor may not be a Wight, but if…

I'm betting (or at least hoping) that the splinter isn't the almost cliched piece of the true cross, but a fragment from the Tree of Life. It would fit in with all the forest themes, and Rosalee mentioned the other tree of Eden.

So, what did Woden say to Cassandra? And was her pose in the following panel indicate that she was starting to dance, or that she was winding up to smack Woe(is-me)den into next week?