Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Self-Congratulatory Horseshit, Alan Arkin.

Goddamn Disqus. We should have seen the murders coming after that format change.

Enjoy these crappy fairytale adaptations while you can - the next big clog coming down the pipeline is self-aggrandising movies in which cranky elderly Hollywood producers help to solve geopolitical crises. Ben Affleck has figured out the cheat code for Oscars.

I got a notification by seven angels blowing trumpets and crying "Woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth" for this?

This Ain't The Old Testament XXX.

If it was showing on Starz, I'd like to imagine this would be the soundtrack to the season-closing montage.

"I'm out of order? You're out of order! The whole damn Thing is out of order!"

@avclub-110f08d5c3133981366b5c53ace53241:disqus I know, right? But if you put it like that to a girl, she looks at you like you're crazy.

@avclub-708ad56a59dc3b0cb49bcda2363d2824:disqus Then Lord Grantham is dragged from his study by the furious villagers and fed to his own dogs, making that opening credits shot of his labrador a piece of very dark foreshadowing.

I clutched a bedpost in anguish.

But we also save a bunch of money by not paying the comedians. The plan is simply to get them blind drunk in a dockside tavern, then shanghai them.

Meanwhile, I still can't get backing for my comedy cruise, Rum, Sodomy and the Laughs.

And I bet they'll have that hateful bigot Andy Serkis parading around in apeface again.

It did rub me the wrong way, you're absolutely right, and I'm sure that has coloured my interpretation of scenes like this. I like your explanation of it - in fact, I like it far more than I liked the scene itself as it played out in the episode, which is probably a problem. I was frustrated by the tone of the entire…

I always imagined Mr Wednesday as an older Charles Dance, and it was only years later that I realised the embarrassing reason why: the villain he played in Last Action Hero had one eye, and the association must have sunk in.

We Peacock Matlock.

"Trying to decipher the meaning of the final scene of episode two, in which Claire gravely looks at Frank finally using the rowing machine, is still a head-scratcher."

Cthulhu is their angry superior officer. "You jokers are giving me sleepless nights! And I love my sleep."

Ithaca is boring,
My wife's too old to schtup.
I'm going out for cigarettes,
Don't wait up.

United 420: Let's roll (joints).
Too soon?