"Fuck" is a pretty old English word; I don't know how common it was in Scots at the time though.

Just read it. Fantastic story!

Thanks for this. The Calvets sound nothing like any French Canadians I know (mostly my own relatives), but I thought maybe it was because they're upper class and all my family are working-class who speak joual or brayon.

Also, they gave one daughter the Frenchest name in the world, and the other got…."Megan".

I agree there should be an expert review for the show. KKU is doing a great job, but there are starting to be a fair number of deviations from the source material that I'd like to see discussed in review and in comments.

Yeah, that return of the voiceover to tells us something that was abundantly clear from, you know, the actual acting, was supremely annoying.

I just really appreciate the performances. The four leads were just masterful in that 80s sitcom format.

Isn't there a bit where she acknowledges that she's still not really taking the world around her seriously, because she still can't really believe where she is?

I know I'm not going to convince you of anything, because I'm making the same response that the author did and you dismissed it out of hand. This is historical fiction. There are characters who believe in witchcraft, in corporal punishment of children, in the divine right of kings, and a host of other stuff that I…

You brought up something that bothered me. I seemed to remember from the book that Colum was HAPPY that Jamie married an English woman, because that removed him as a rival for the clan leadership. And that would gel with the way they've portrayed this on the show as well — the brothers don't want Jamie as a rival to…

I hope they don't expand Laoghaire's role too much. In the book she's instrumental in some of the action without actually having that much screen time (is that vague enough to not qualify as a spoiler?). There are other minor characters worth more time.

I feel like this is the episode we all have to get out of the way, and ride the wave of internet outrage over the beating scene, so the show can get on with the good stuff.

The fact that the large-bosomed girl was Welsh is the kind of detail I really appreciate from Nudeador.

Tracey Ellis Ross is amazing at reacting to the stupidity or weirdness of people around her. Her scenes with Junior were fantastic.

"A thing like that!" — my favorite Pete phrase. Next to "Hell's Bells, Trudy!" He's one of the youngest characters but he talks like he's from the '30s.

They're lying.

This was one of the more interesting things about Sopranos to me, the way that it hit "Northeastern, ethnic Catholic, blue-collar" class insecurities right on the head. Tony's got money and power and he's proud of his Italian heritage, but he's always going to be a rube to his WASP neighbors and even to other…

Being an Old, I have no idea of what Avenged Sevenfold is beyond that gimmick account. Yesterday I was in a high school building for work and saw that some kid had posted an "A7X" quote on a whiteboard. I was sort of startled to see it out of the AV Club context.

Ellis Ross was great when she was humoring Dre's breakdown about losing his swag: her facial expressions of mock dismay are the best.

Loved the wig, loved the "terrible" American accent.