Along the lines of "show-inspired wine", my roommate and I watched this while drinking a bottle of Moskato Life. It's all the more delicious for being slightly trashy — just like Scandal!

I guess I must be mocking the gods, because I watch both very happily!

Yeah, I really liked the maturity on display throughout this episode. I hope they keep that up.

Kyle is acting like an abused spouse, and I think that's why the writers have given him this plot with Julia. Hopefully with her guidance on the book, he will learn to stand up for himself!

You're not alone — I really liked it too! Sure, I would have preferred more show-based plots, but the interpersonal stuff actually made sense since they'd been building up to it for several episodes, and nearly everyone involved seemed to handle it as if they really were over the age of 12! (But no older than 17, I…

Well, this is a month late (thanks Hulu!) but…yeah, I'm really confused about James here — the whole reason this plot kicked into gear was Ellen telling Neal that a) his father was innocent (via the video) and b) to trust "Sam" (James). If she had all this evidence against him…then why would she say that? I guess…

Clearly she should name them Conrad and Victoria instead. It would be a great Revenge crossover.

Yeah, I think it's "Tie me to a tree".

I think House once put his hand right over Cuddy's nipple (well, over her clothes, but definitely not just the upper part of the breast), so, I don't think it should be a censor issue? But I have literally zero idea how it works, so, maybe there is some other factor I'm not counting!

It seems like this is just a case of Dan thinking he's a lot funnier than he actually is, and also sort of confusing some things — over on Slog, he wrote a post about how withholding sex can be appropriate in cases of bad hygiene and so on, but obviously those all have an actual sexual component, like Terry's mustache…

Watching your crusade against facial hair ramp up, crest, and then subside into resignation over the course of these comments has been truly entertaining. I give you an A+, sir, though I know it can never make up for the lack of extruded keratin on your visage.

There's a "classic" letter from a few years ago from a girl who wanted to fuck her TA, while she was taking his class, and Dan was all like "Sure! Why not?" I really don't understand how he doesn't understand the basic ethics involved in these cases.

@Dikachu:disqus , he's had the kid for over a decade now, and been in an LTR for much longer than that — so either those are definitely not the reasons, or getting a marriage license really does confer some sort of terrible and awesome power beyond tax benefits and making breakups much more difficult, and Dan just…

I particularly like stubble on non-clit sensitive areas, and how it looks in general. But then making out can be difficult, because my chin gets scratched. At some point I attempted to make a protective leather strap that hooked over my ears to solve this problem, but the guy was not amused.

I thought this was the best episode so far. Granted, I didn't like the pilot at all, and I've only really started enjoying this series in the past few episodes, and that mostly because I have zero expectations of continuity. But having an actually cohesive storyline worked really well. And even if the characters were…

Or just be generally unscrupulous. Thanks, Kings!

Even if they don't believe it, I'd guess most of the nobles have at least encountered it (I mean, the idea is actually not that new, you can find writings that make this argument even in medieval times in our world), and think it's hilariously idealistic and naive. Hence why Cersei looked at Margaery so…

I think Margaery wants Cersei to see her as being sweet and innocent at this point, though. She certainly has to give some sort of reason for why she'd stop off at an orphanage, and she can't come out and say "power base" in so many words, because she doesn't want them to realize just how ambitious and smart she is.…

Wow, I had no idea the budget for Kings was that large! I miss it too.

Absolutely! I actually had to pause it and spend the next five minutes trying to replicate that look. It was amazing.