Honest question: why does the earnestness have to be a bad thing?

Even if we can accept the show's worldview being somewhat optimistic, it's hard to argue against The Walking Dead having a cynical approach to storytelling (the whole Lucy-pulling-the-football metaphor is quite apt, plus the tendency to kill of characters for mere shock value and whatever that Negan cliffhanger is…

I'd agree to that. Also, he doesn't seem to use cue cards or notes. At least not on his desk.

I've never seen a skinny person drinking a Diet Coke.

Colbert's still a far better interviewer than most of his peers. Especially Fallon, whose appeal still baffles me.

I feel so bold now…

Related only to a minor point made in the article: I'm surprised how many people still assume that the Jaime/Cersei scene by Joffrey's corpse was consensual in the books. Given the POV nature of the books, we're basically just taking Jaime's word for it, and even then it didn't start out that way.

*shrug* Fuck, it's about all that they have left.

CotF/White Walker was something I could see, though.

Okay, so North Of The Wall is pretty much a dead end, right? I mean, obviously the show isn't going to blue ball us with TOJ, but it's pretty clear that Jon's going to see it and not Bran.

Does it happen before or after his Comedy Central Roast?

1:31 into the video before I had to pause and take a break from the crazy.

"What's the point of thinking"

Yeah, this. I get that Littlefinger's been moving a lot (I assume he's doing a lot of travel by carriage and/or boat), but why people insist on measuring this by episode count and not any other unit is beyond me.

Also worth noting about High Sparrow: he's given conflicting accounts of his feelings on wine (doesn't like the taste vs. used to be a bit of a drunkard) and what he's done with his shoes (left them behind vs. giving them away). I know that's outside the realm of this segment (looking at form to discuss the show vs.…

She always works it. That fox.

"Moro was an ally of Khal Drogo and was in Pentos when Daenerys and Drogo were presented to each other."

Proof that sometimes comedy songs don't work without a video. "I'm On A Boat" was MUCH funnier as a digital short than as a song.

I agree. I highly doubt that she's going to fully commit to being a FM. If and when she's assigned a victim in Westeros, she will be tested.

It was either the same episode, or Bran and Rickon split up in the S3 finale, right after RW. One of those.