Same thing for Melisandre; she's basically served her purpose at this point by bringing back Jon. Unless they come up with something else for her to do, there's nothing left for her except to be killed by Davos for burning Shireen.

I mean 'The Broken Man' could certainly refer to The Hound—he was pretty broken when last we saw him. But pretty much every time I try to guess what the episode title is referring to, I'm wrong. 'Mother's Mercy' really threw me for a loop last season.

This question is so esoteric that it's basically impossible to contemplate. One voice? Forever? And it has to be a celebrity?

Davos can't die until he reckons with Melisandre over the death of Princess Shireen. So, unless that happens this episode, he's not going anywhere.

I'm more of a witchcraft guy. Strict coven-mandated goat's blood regimen here, and I still have 51% ownership of my soul. Not too shabby,

It's nice that AMC has harnessed the synergy between the post-Bourdain dickishness of the food industry and their increasingly samey brand of irreverent anti-heroics, but this doesn't appeal to me at all. And I like food! I eat it all the time!

Let's just extend the blame to cover commercial medicine as a whole.

I'm interested, but more in that "wait for it to show up On Demand" way. That said, even a years-past-its-prime takedown of Macklemore and 'Same Love' is like sweet candy to me.

I unabashedly enjoy 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' for what it is—the work of a young writer who's still writing vaguely veiled semi-autobiography. I think people's opinion of it varies depending on the order in which they read the books; if you start with Kavalier & Clay, or any of his later stuff, and work backwards,…

Well, that depends on your definition of 'cutting loose.' For me it's making bad decisions and waking up filled with regret.

Yeah, 'Wonder Boys' is great Pittsburgh scenery porn. I was at CMU when it was being filmed; I didn't interact with the production in any meaningful way, other than tripping and falling on the sidewalk right by one of their locations on campus and getting up to see Robert Downey Jr. kind of smirking at me. I did have…

The highs on 'The Suburbs' are really high—'Sprawl II' included—but there's still some fat on the record that could have been trimmed. I'm a firm supporter of the ≤ 11 track album, in general.

'The Walking Dead' is only optimistic when it wants to make its characters, and by extension, its audience, lulled into a sense of false comfort that it can then shatter in the most horrible way possible. It's a very manipulative kind of hope. Plus, it's hard to imagine a endgame for the show that doesn't involve all…

I resisted Spotify for a long time. But at my new job I basically just stare at a computer screen all day, so Spotify has become a sanity maintenance activity more than anything. On the other hands, Spotify has just enough gaps that I still have to get out my Silver Jews albums.

I'd go a little further and say that 'Funeral' and 'Neon Bible' are pretty classic, 'The Suburbs' is pretty good, but has some meandering sections that could've been cut, and some vaguely troubling "kids today!" griping from a bunch of people who were in the their late 20s at the time. That leaves 'Reflektor' which is…

I'm in my late-mid-30s and I find myself gravitating towards the 'Monday at the Hug & Pint'/'The Last Romance' era more and more. 'The Shy Retirer' is a pretty decent representation of how I feel those nights when I can toss aside responsibilities and just cut loose.

One CD I know I will never part with is White Trash Heroes by Archers of Loaf. I think it was OOP around 2002, which I when I wanted it, and I went to every store in NYC looking for it, until I finally snatched it up from Etherea Records one particularly tortured CMJ weekend. It's awesome, and even though it's all…

I agree. I love a lot of ambient/drone music but for some reason I can't connect with SAW Vol. II. I keep it around because I feel like it'll click for me any day now.

I always thought that Timi Yuro's 'Interlude' would have been a great credits song for 'Mad Men.' Or maybe just the soundtrack to one of their pre-season promos for the latter part of the series. It's dreamy, yearning, and period-appropriate.

Truth, you say? I'm not familiar.