I was worried a bit at the beginning that he was just copying MacDonald's concept, but it quickly became apparent after a few jokes, that he was going for a different vibe, as Starky Love says.

I'd never heard of her, but I really liked her stuff. When she listed all of Franco's pursuits, and asked, "Is there anything he CAN do?" I almost lost it.

Why would it have been "chickening out" if Holder had talked her down? It's certainly not that the scenario of an evil murderer baiting a cop into shooting them hasn't been done before, so it wasn't new in that respect. I guess I just don't share your and phodreaw's conviction that shooting him was necessary for…

I wouldn't say that I HATED the ending, but yeah, having the real killer be Linden's boss/lover the whole time was pushing the bounds of implausibility a bit too far for me.

It's hard to understand how that guy has any time for journalism when I constantly see him showing up on sitcoms and late night talk shows. Christ, most actors would kill to have IMDB profiles half as long as his.

But the sad thing is that scapegoating gays WORKS, because there is already a preexisting well of hatred and distrust towards gays among the general population. Putin didn't push this law through singlehandedly. It was unanimously passed by the legislature, and even some of the pseudo-opposition parties who sometimes…

"What are the chances you just happened to be passing through on the
day of this crazy supernatural event?" The chances that a random person
passes through a town? Pretty high, probably. Maybe if Barbie was a dome
expert it would be a little fishy, but doesn't Reporter Lady think he's
just a regular dude as of now?

+1000. It was a such a small scene, but such a perfect example of characters behaving in completely unbelievable ways. There was absolutely no logical reason for her to be so critical of the policewoman, who was just doing her job and taking a person who had just committed a crime to jail. The show is setting the…

Why would you have thought that Coldhands would be the final scene? I mean, I guess it's a pretty big scene in the books, particularly for Bran's character, but season finale big? Not to say to I was thrilled with Dani's scene as the final one, but I don't think Coldhands is an important enough character (at this…

Yeah, the problem in the book is that we never really learn anything about Shae's motivations/actions after the Purple Wedding. We don't know if she was physically coerced into betraying Tyrion, what threats Cersei and Tywin might have made to her, or whether she did it out of pure selfishness. If they plan on leaving…

To the folks (mainly The Worlds First Anal Rapist) saying Talisa's presence and murder weren't necessary to the narrative, another thing to consider is how poorly a pure adaptation from the book would have translated to the screen.

It was annoying to have my favorite Janis Joplin song interrupted by a preview for the next episode of "The Killing."

I guess it is possible.But it just seems unlikely. All that time they spent giving us with her and Rob in intimate conversation. Unless they plan to spend 5 minutes or so next episode explaining how that whole arrangement was set up, I have a hard time believing she was part of the ruse.

God, it was awful. Maybe the most viscerally awful violence ever on Game of Thrones.

Sweet Christ, that was amazing. Having Talisa at the wedding (and showing her being stabbed in the gut in the most visceral way) made it even more devastating than in the books, especially coming after the conversations she and Jon had prior to all hell breaking loose about what the baby's name would be.

Hmm, I thought the nudity in this scene was pretty blatantly gratuitous. It wasn't obvious to me at first why she had to go through the ruse of bedding him. It would have made sense if she was doing it without Stannis's knowledge and needed some way to overpower Gendry. But Stannis was in the know, so they could have…

'I'd watch an hour of her and Betty trading passive-aggressive barbs.
They're like the anti-Gilmore Girls. You can really feel the disdain
underneath it all.'

Молодець, а сколько у нас русски-говорящих читателей?

Yes. The fact that he is a terrible spy is the only thing keeping me from saying that that scene went too far. I mean, that was a pretty brutal way of killing a guy. They've show plenty of murders on this show, but that was just sadistic. But the fact that he was shown as such a fuckwit, with the scene at the bar last…

Yeah, her scenes were great. I was wondering if she was really good, or if Stan is as easily manipulable as her boss suggested early in the episode.