Did anyone else get the sense that Jonah Hill was kind of out of it? He hardly had any work and when he did, it was pretty weak. Tripping over lines, falling in and out of accents, weird timing…

I just finished watching this about half an hour ago and I can hardly think of a single noteworthy thing. Far and away the weakest of the season just for its sheer mediocrity.

The show's grasp of geopolitical realities, economics, polling… anything resembling the real world of politics has always been tenuous. The plot is driven by need first.

I tend to agree with the reviewer that no topic is really above comedy, but that sketch was repulsive. And it was most repulsive because it wasn't funny and didn't do anything inventive with the premise.

If the story you want to tell is "Everyone is born, lives for a bit, does some stuff, then dies," I guess it's not a waste of time.

That shot of Stannis when he sees the thousands of horses coming over the hill - where he just takes a deep breath and stares blankly - should be set to "The Sound of Silence" in the Arrested Westeros mashup.

The problem with season 5 and the way it ended is that I'm running out of plot threads to give two shits about.

Because part of being the best is going out like a champ.

Could there have been a more anti-climactic end to Stannis' arc than that?

Prediction for season six premiere:

…?

I wish that more people (professional critics, especially) would realize that these silly twists are no longer some sort of "subverting the tropes" brilliance, but just hackneyed crutches for lazy story-telling.

When the episode ended, I said, "I'm calling it now: this show ends with Ramsay sitting on the Iron Throne. Cut to black. End credits."

I would love an AV Club feature on exactly when the "graduation song" thing began. There are performers that clearly write and release singles timed perfectly for the April-June grad season now. I find it fascinating.

For some reason, I have this unshakable connection with this and The Beatles' "Help!"

Canada takes exception to your exclusion of "Clap for the Wolfman" by The Guess Who. That's like our national anthem of clapping songs!

You're right that there is something supremely hilarious (if you take yourself lightly enough to actually stand back and look at the whole, amusing picture) about one guy saying, "Hey, people take things way too seriously," only to be met with 700 comments about how "WE DO NOT TAKE OURSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY AND HE'S AN…

*Man collapses from being poisoned with well water.*
*Arya throws a Jim Halpert look to the camera.*

Counterpoint: Renly is dead because of a magic smoke monster.

Agreed. Wasn't virtually everybody in the north ready to rally behind Robb Stark as King of Westeros in a civil war?