What's so frustrating about Ryan Murphy is that when he's given good material to work with, he's actually pretty talented at directing it. I wasn't as head-over-heels in love with The People vs. O.J. Simpson as a lot of people were, but it was readily identifiable as quality television. Scream Queens is especially bad…

Morbid curiosity.

Since there's no Scream Queens recap, I figured I'd just come in here to declare that it's even worse now.

Bran is definitely the wild card here. It's unclear what his role is going to be, except that it's sure to be instrumental in whatever big conflagration lies ahead.

Well, yeah, she had to survive the Waif, because otherwise she'd have made the trip to Braavos and learned how to be a Faceless Man for nothing. Now that she's back in Westeros and using her newfound talents for her own vengeance, she's fair game. If she runs headlong into The Mountain on her way to take down Cersei,…

Handily they hang out in the same place a lot.

Sansa is the key here. She trusts Theon, and knows the price he's paid for his betrayal. She also knows firsthand the kind of man Tyrion is, and probably understands that it's unlikely that he was responsible for trying to kill Bran.

I think it's pretty definite that one, or more, of Dany's dragons will end up dead, or stolen, or corrupted in some way. Three is just too many dragons, and Drogon's gotten all the attention so far. However, why would Bran be against Dany? Is Bran's role as the Three Eyed Raven inherently counter to Dany's role as…

Part of me feels like that choice has already been made… Arya arrived back in Westeros with enough lead time to impersonate a serving girl at the Twins, murder two Freys, bake them into a pie, and kill Walder Frey. News of the retaking of Winterfell by Jon and Sansa would probably have spread… she chose to continue…

That would be lame as fuck. but I have hope that they've got something else in store. I don't know what it is… maybe Dany is the Huge Unexpected Death. That'd be one way to pull the rug out from under us.

I mean, I hope it's more complicated than that too. After all the build up to Dragons vs. White Walkers it'd be a bit of an anticlimax if she just melted them all instantly. On the other hand it would be equally anticlimactic if they had no effect whatsoever. The dragons are a tricky narrative conceit. If they're too…

I don't know… before last season's finale I would have agreed with you about Arya, but after Frey Pie I feel like she's going to get her revenge, but at the cost of her own life.

I've got a feeling that we might not have that much time left with Arya. The fact that Maisie and Sophie got matching tattoos feels like a "saying goodbye" sort of ritual, and I feel like Arya's the more likely candidate for a shocking early death.

The thing about The Strokes is that they came out of the box as with that snotty attitude that really can only carry one album. I saw them play in Pittsburgh in late 2001 and they had totally skipped basic competency and gone straight into drunken torpor. Sure, Is This It was aces from start to finish, but Room on…

I grabbed the 2-disc import versions of Suede's S/T debut, Dog Man Star, and Coming Up. They take up a lot of space, but they handily replace Sci-Fi Lullabies. If I had to lose one, I'd probably lose the the debut, even though it's got some amazing singles. But yeah, nothing after Coming Up is really worth hanging…

Bruce Springsteen ties with Bob Dylan as the artist whose greatness I understand but don't really appreciate. I've tried, but there's just no way in for me. I even prefer The Hold Steady's rocked out version of Atlantic City to Bruce's own hushed album version. Come at me!!

That's what drives me crazy about her; she's talented, and she's worked really hard to develop her brand. But she undermines all of her good qualities by letting her insecurities get the better of her.

Ooh, good one. After Four Wedding and a Funeral exploded pretty much every movie that Hugh Grant had ever been got catapulted onto the American video renting public. Remember Sirens? Come for Hugh Grant's floppy-haired befuddlement; stay for the simmering bisexuality and ample male frontal nudity.

If I were Phi Phi I would have melted into a sizzling ooze the second Ru pulled that one-way mirror trick.

I was happy it was actually scary for maybe the first time since Murder House. There's something elemental about an empty house that's slowly revealing itself to be haunted. Sure, it's an overused trope, and this episode doesn't do anything particularly innovative with it, but the reenactment sections worked.