While I doubt this will be stunningly innovative, I don't mind if Romeo and Juliet and major works like that get the cinematic reinvention every few decades.  It's been a while since Luhrmann, the last major one.

"Cell Block Tango" was acknowledged as inappropriate within the show, in an oh-so-clever meta way, as part of the show's pitch that girls are the ones who really need to be educated about domestic violence.

I was holding out for "Pumped Up Kicks".

It was a great show (albeit with some flaws) for much of the first season, and a good one (with flaws) for a bit longer.  Then it transitioned into being a wildly uneven show, then an outright bad show with occasional positive points that it would always find ways to ruin.

The staff writer who brought us I Kissed A Girl does it again!

@Right_Bastard:disqus , I don't get how people can dislike "Missionary: Impossible".  All the PBS/FOX stuff alone is classic.

I'm a huge fan of ATYCLB.  I'm not sure if it's their best, but it's up there.

The Purple Wedding comes after the Red Wedding.  It wouldn't make any sense to switch them.

They're really going to have to find a way to let some time lapse on this show, because the Stark kids have quite obviously grown three years older over what really must only be a couple of months in-show.  This season clearly picked up not long after last year's finale, for instance.

Her story was that he requested that they do something that she supposed thought sounded painful, wouldn't lead to procreation, and was meant to insinuate that he was gay.  That's the most obvious interpretation.

For criticism, the one awkwardly cut moment of exposition:  the Reed twins show up and introduce themselves by name, we cut away, and then when we cut back they're travelling down the road, clearly some time later, and only then does Bran ask if they're Lord Reed's kids, which you would think would be something either…

Where'd you hear that?

When I was reading the books I thought Theon was dead after book two, and then he showed up alive again three books later.

It seems like she's going to get angry on Sansa's behalf (and probably jealous of the non-exclusivity) when the marriage happens, which seems like an obvious way to turn her against Tyrion, but I'm having a hard time seeing how that leads to her getting into bed with Tywin (whose idea the whole thing was).

Also, the One True Pairing, Sansa/lemon-cakes, is at last canon to the TV show.

@avclub-2d0cca95ad6a2061d208d765e79af478:disqus , with the Hound gone, I think she's taller than everyone else in King's Landing.

Yeah, I pictured Thoros as more eccentric than that.

Margaery's cover story implying that Renly wanted anal was the funniest moment of the night (in an episode with a good bit of comedy).

I can see why you're the king of idiots.

Homer's "never try" quote and Milhouse's remark about his mom are two of my most regularly-used lines from the show.