Kinnear has proved time and again he can do anything: Shakespeare (he won an Olivier Award for playing Iago), Restoration comedy (he won an Olivier for playing Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode, modern comedy, modern drama; he's just opened at the National Theatre as MacHeath in Threepenny Opera. Seeing him…

Okay, just floating this idea, but. . . .

Holy crap. What an episode. The time flew by, even with just three people in the show; unlike Fear the Walking Dead earlier, where despite a full cast and dozens of extras I kept looking to see if it was nearly over yet.

Thank goodness the wonderful Ruben Blades can now (I hope) get a part on a much better show.

My (real) son never minded the 'entertainment 25 (or more) years older than he is' thing; when he was young he happily watched movies as varied as The Court Jester, The Lady Vanishes, King Kong (1933 version), and A Little Princess (Shirley Temple), and when he was older we watched stuff like Murder by Death, Citizen…

I don't necessarily think that the reveal (and a very good one it was, too) about Vanessa and Clare's previous relationship is a "cruel blow" waiting to happen; in the brief scene we see of them when Vanessa is in the "white room", he treats her with courtesy. I'm hoping that we find he helped her, or was at least…

"Marshal, do you believe in the occult?"
"No."
"You should start."

Oh good, I'm not the only one!

Three of the four main characters in Gone With the Wind were played by Brits, if you class Olivia de Havilland (born in Japan of English parents, moved to America when she was three) as a Brit.

So: not an adaptation of the Stewart O'Nan novel, I take it.

On the one hand, I kind of wish that we'd been allowed a bit more happiness along with Vanessa, not knowing Sweet's true identity. On the other hand, Logan didn't drag out the reveal artificially, so that's good. I hate it when writers think the audience couldn't possibly have figured out such-and-such a plot twist or…

Is the fact that Vanessa had to say her name to Sweet-Dracula three times of any significance? I can't think of anything in Dracula lore that corresponds, apart from the 'Enter freely and of your own free will' bit, and that's pretty tenuous.

At first I thought he had vanished, which was what was puzzling Vanessa, and then Dracula's acolyte stepped into view, which made me think Vanessa had sensed his presence. Always go with your gut instinct.

The match cut from a close-up of Brona's new protege's face to that of the would-be regicide Balfour strapped in the barber chair, raving, was brilliant (and damn near made me jump out of my seat).

'It's only a flesh wound.'

Thanks, Will, for lodging the Banana Splits theme song - which I'm old enough to remember from its original TV run - firmly in my head. I have a hard time remembering the names of people I see every day, but I can remember every beat and word of that song. . . .

Who's going to play Robert Shaw?

No, John Logan has said he wanted to introduce Dr. Moreau in this series but the rights were unavailable (Wells is in copyright in the UK until January 1, 2017, and presumably in America for another 20 years after that).

Part of this episode was filmed near where I live in the interior of British Columbia! Some of the New Mexico desert shots were filmed within 10 miles of my home, at the C.N. Ranch east of Cache Creek, and the train shots were filmed at the Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan Valley, about 2.5 hours' drive from here.

Agree. Plus Davos is one of the few (as in count them on the fingers of one hand and have some left over) truly good characters in the show, so killing him off (at least so early on) would seem to be a mis-step. The audience needs someone decent to root for, other than Brienne.