It also surprised me, because I'd completely forgotten that Ellaria was actually a fairly interesting minor character when she was with Oberyn in season 4, and not just a vengeful caricature.

That was my first thought when he went through the wall. I really hope that's not the case though, because it would be such an insultingly dumb twist. It would mean we've wasted 6 years following this boring little bastard around, only to discover that he is a complete idiot (and Meera too), truly the stupidest Stark…

You gotta give props to Stannis for never sitting on that badass throne though. He was a real man of the people, choosing to do his glowering and stewing on a stool rather than anything fancy.

It still seemed like a desperate writer's trick, because for some reason they made Davos randomly spit-ball the idea at Melisandre, despite having no knowledge of resurrection, being strongly opposed to any sort of magic, having been given no answers from Melisandre as to the fates of Stannis and Shireen, and having…

I gave up on Christianity after I found out that Jesus forgave man, instead of returning as a bloodthirsty sociopath hell-bent on destroying the Roman Empire. It just struck me as unrealistic.

No Legion, no Leftovers, no deal.

I'm a bit late, but my interpretation is that the Ray Wise character gave Nikki a chance to turn her life around by allowing her to make it out of the woods and bring about justice. I think that he believed Emmit deserved a second chance too, and brought a cop to save his life. Nikki failed her test by firing on the…

I thought both the boy and the girl resembled Frank Silva a little. Was the girl part-Native American? I'm not sure what that means though. The timeline would be way off if they turned out to be BOB's parents (or if one of them becomes BOB), but who knows what that bug is going to do.

Those episodes should get A+s.

Yuri Gurka was the man who committed the murder that the Stasi charged the innocent man for. The victim was Helga Albrecht, who Ray Wise mentioned to Yuri last week, and who was the woman at the front of all of the Jewish villagers standing before Yuri.

And in season 2, "True" was always the last word to disappear.

I know TV shows have conditioned us to anticipate the deaths of pure-of-heart side-characters, but has it ever happened on Fargo before? Molly and her family all made it out of season 1 alright, and Lou's family, the Walter and Donny stand-ins, and the butcher girl all survived season 2. It seems like (so far) only…

I'll have to watch that scene with the models again - was Sy planning out where to park so he could point at Ray for maximum effect when he got fired?

Who's the asshole who came up with the idea to start a video with a tiny little teaser for the trailer you're about to watch? That shit drives me nuts. Makes me want to turn off the video immediately.

Season 2 opened on a Sioux chief waiting for Reagan on a film set, season 3 opened in an East German interrogation room. I think that, along with all the Eastern European references and songs so far, bode well for him.

I'm a little sad they didn't use the take of Thewlis saying "zdravejte!" we saw in the trailer. Him winding down the window with that vampiric grin on his face was what initially sold me on this season.

I dunno, if they had to do a time jump, I think I would've preferred if they did a couple of smaller time jumps - they already did this with the young Nucky/sheriff Nucky flashbacks. Rothstein was an important enough player in the show that he deserved a proper conclusion. Unlike Capone, Rothstein's story isn't…

I am told A.V. Clubbers often say unexpected and amusing things.

I can't wait to see Stuhlbarg on television again. I'm still a little bitter that Terence Winter abruptly cut him for the final season of Boardwalk (and never even gave him so much as a flashback), all because he wanted to fast-track another big budget HBO prestige drama that everyone has already forgotten about a…

And Rudy Giuliani looks like an older, more unhinged version of the Bullet Farmer.