You guys were quite generous with your grades, most of these pilots were awful.  I only laughed at one of them (Onion News Empire) and several of them I found so terrible that I just couldn't get through the episode (Browsers, Zombieland, Those Who Can't).  If Amazon wants some comedies that are actually good I think…

I lost mine while working as a high school janitor.

Seems like the show has set up the groundwork for Bjorn to be revealed as actually the son of Rollo, which would create another twisted parallel to Joffrey.  Note that I don't think they will go this route, but Ragnar's comment in this episode about Bjorn being like his uncle and the history between Rollo and Lagertha…

I agree, this is a pretty great show.  Spoilers: it even had Fred and Daphne impulsively get engaged, an advancement in character relationships most shows wouldn't even contemplate.  Also, they had an episode where they revealed a character buried under the earth for decades who had obviously gone completely insane…

I like the story parallels you describe, but if Art was the mole and Tonin wanted him to use his resources to get Drew into custody, then the entirety of Decoy would make no sense.  The mob wouldn't have sent an army of guys and set crazy traps to stop the marshals from bringing back Drew- they would have welcomed…

Could also be Vasquez.  Overall though I'm betting on birthday card marshal.

Wouldn't make any sense.  Art is the person who started the hunt for Drew in the first place, if he was on the Tonin payroll he could just have alerted him and kept everyone in the Marshal's office in the dark, giving the mob time to hunt down Drew at their leisure.  We know how crappy Raylan is at paperwork, if Art…

I'm leaning towards Ava getting arrested, not killed outright.  If I'm right, it'll be interesting to see if Boyd abandons her in prison as fast as he abandoned Arlo.  As to 2. and 3. I'm also confident that Augustine will use Winona as leverage to get Raylan to turn over Drew, but I expect that the outcome will be…

Thanks mello.  I guess Augustine not asking about it and making the "ballast" comment is just reinforcing him as a dumb asshole.  Which they made pretty clear last week with Ava and brandy scene, but I'm happy to hate him all the more.  Here's hoping Raylan puts a bullet in him next week.

So are we ever going to find out why Colt shot that Detroit sniper last week, or did he take that secret to the grave?  I found it strange that Augustine never asked this episode why one of his men went with Colt and never came back, or did I miss them talking about this?

Vikings weren't the only ones to use shield walls throughout history, the tactic is obviously very similar to the phalanx formation used by the Greeks and Romans (and a bunch of other groups as well).  The reason why the phalanx formation eventually fell out of favor is precisely because of flanking, so there's…

My point was that not just the warband leader but almost all of the Northumbrians would have to have been idiots, because otherwise the vikings wouldn't have won, and that for me him being such idiots threatens to undermine the tension of the viking raids.

You don't really have to have a plan for your men to stop running straight into the wall of shields and spears and death, they'd figure that out on their own.  As to what the vikings would have done if they had been flanked, their only real tactical options would be to circle up (which they don't have enough warriors…

I like this show and I enjoyed this episode, but I wouldn't lavish any praise on the big battle because of the tactics.  Good production values, fun to watch, further establishes the vikings as having brains equal to their brawn, but tactically the battle makes no sense.  The vikings were vastly outnumbered and didn't…

Anyone else almost certain that we're going to get a major character death in the next (penultimate of the season) episode?  My bet is Ava goes down when they return to Noble's Holler for Ellen May, but with all Art's talk about retirement I'm nervous for him as well.  I assumed, like most people, that Colt was a…

"something dawned on me: When I describe something about the show that I
like—be it the series’ emotionally unpredictable storytelling or the way
that its character arcs veer all over the place—then act as if that’s a
self-explanatory reason to love the show, there are just as many who
see those things as self-evident…