McConaughey had at least shown he was capable of bringing depth to a serious character. Even early in his career he was strong in serious roles (A Time to Kill is most obvious, but I kinda liked U-571 too). McConaughey was just recapturing the mojo we'd seen him have before. Vaughn has never had that.

Yeah, I think that counts. As far as I remember, he was barely in that movie (it's been a very long time since I've seen it), but it was still a serious role.

Vaughn has done serious roles before, but the only ones I've seen just weren't good (read: they were fucking terrible). I just find it very difficult to believe that he was the best they could get for this role, considering what a phenomenon the first season was.

I'm still not on board with the Vince Vaughn casting, but I actually think Farrell could be pretty good in this role and McAdams would be excellent. I really hope Kitsch and Vaughn don't ruin things, though.

Do you always call him by both names or sometimes just "Bark?"

That's true. Christiansen, in my opinion, got a little less insufferable once Anakin turned evil, but by that point the series was already lost. Christiansen legitimately got upstaged by a 9-year-old playing the same part in Episode 1. That's not good. And how any male manages to have zero chemistry with Natalie…

Why are Ruffalo and Hanks co-writing a book about Rian Johnson getting laid? That won't sell at all and is just a waste of time.

That made sense for the character. But then the reveal of "I'm always angry" and he suddenly has perfect control of his Hulk rage was a pretty big turn-off for me.

Probably unfair to compare Ruffalo to Christiansen based on one performance that was clearly directed that way. Ruffalo has been fantastic in other roles. I'll admit his Banner was pretty bland, but I would say he's overall a pretty damn good actor.

Most of his story in the books is inner monologue and dream sequences. They've shown some of the dreams in the show, but the inner monologue is impossible to show visually. There's not a lot that actually happens in that story, so they've skipped around. He's so much further ahead because there's just not much content…

Yes, but journalists being beheaded has been a big story that everyone is very aware of at the moment. It would be bad form to use as entertainment something that calls to mind a very serious, very real, very horrible thing that just happened.

Yeah, I don't get the Kate Upton-Jenna Coleman comparison at all. They're both beautiful, but in very different ways.

No, his story in the show is the only one that's caught up to the books. There's still a little bit of story left, but right now he's essentially where he is at the end of Book 5 (the most recent book). Everybody else is at the end of Book 3 or beginning of Book 4.

Naw, the show won't go on hiatus. I would be shocked if the sixth book isn't out in time for Season 6, but if it isn't they'll just go on telling the story. They're already going to have to do that in Season 7 regardless (there's no way the last book is done by then), so the plots will just diverge until ending in the…

Kristian Nairn isn't really even an actor, so there's no worries there. But Isaac Hempstead-Wright seems just as employable as Alfie Allen to me. Maybe that's because I feel like Alfie has a strange-looking face.

How does his gangliness ever come into play? He gets carted around on a wheelbarrow and sits in places. That's it. It's not like he's an action star. For a young actor, I think the kid is pretty damn good.

After seeing the last episode, I was very curious how they were going to deal with Bran's story since it seemed like they would have to create everything themselves without using the book. I never thought eliminating him from the season was an option, what with Theon being in the show during his whole torture plotline.

Am I the only one who at least considered donating money just for the elaborate voicemail hoax?

Holy shit, I forgot about the Pancake Lady scene. Must rewatch right now.

It definitely doesn't have the plotting or the running jokes of Arrested Development, but it's not going for that. It's extremely clever and knows its characters very, very well. Some absolutely incredible dialogue in Party Down.