Or the kids. They would have found pictures of the family and details of everything about their family, including the palace their father grew up in.

I thought Alison reflected a little memory of 'okay, you killed a couple of us, so I'm a bit wary of you' when she met Helena. I appreciated that. Or I read that into the meeting because I wanted it to be there for continuity.

Oh how I wish this was reality so we could have some of that sweet, sweet health care.

Also a card-carrying feminist and *any* rigid society that denies agency to women or men over their own bodies and lives is a bad society. Trying to control people and box them in is bad no matter how you shake it. It's all about someone telling you that they know what's best for you, no matter what you want for your…

I want to see the story behind Lou's case with all the "bodies stacked up" from 1979. I'd watch the heck outta that.

Or both - With a twist of Roose Bolton.

That's how it rolls with Atwood. She finds each of us where we live. Except Handmaid's Tale, which seems to be a universal for women. HT digs deep into our fears.

I would love to be in university now and take a course on Margaret Atwood. I'm really jealous. I adore all of her work.

The Edible Woman was Atwood's first work of fiction. Try some of her later stuff. Alias Grace is an excellent and entertaining read.

Spin-off movie - They'll call it Weekend At Gregor's.

Oh, but the screaming for months and months is so cathartic and necessary. In his vast cruelties GRRM takes away much, but occasionally, he gives us such lovely revenge.

They better not end up at the shelter.

Hopefully S3 Alana will have clear-eyes and be very, very angry at Hannibal and Bedelia. I would love that Alana.

You forgot the non-specific religious gathering place where everyone gathers and then goes through the glowing door and into eternal happiness.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of Spike's long fall from the church window. I must keep Real Folk Blues in mind when I rewatch the show.

The pacing is absolutely frantic. I wish they'd slow it down a bit, but it doesn't look as if they are going to. We book readers are going to be finding our answers before the last two books come out. And if the secrets come out on the show first? I'm not so sure I'll be interested in the books.

To each his own.

I think it's a matter of taste. Seriously. It may seem silly and contrived to you, but not to others. I've felt that way about many shows that got panned for the same reasons you mentioned.

Fargo (I love that show - It's such a delicious, above board morality play) - It's on an even level with some aspects, but they're doing to do two different things with them. GOTs is in a class by itself right now with an international cast and buckets of money falling from the sky at them. You really can't compare…

Movies have become an embarrassing dreck of super-hero movies and giant-moster go boom. Don't get me wrong, I like suer heroes and monsters, but they generally have no stories behind them. Just lots of expensive CGI. The most horrible CGI death can't make me cry over a character that I don't give a rat's patootie…