I disagree, because I really, really, really wanted Joffrey to die. In fact, I've had more than one conversation with people IRL lamenting that Joffrey didn't die in very special torture porn episode of Game of Thrones.

My high school library had a copy of Knut Hamsun's Hunger which both intrigued and disturbed me.

Or Lauren Bacall eyefucking Bogart.

Or Rosalind Russell.

I figure that Oberyn favored justice and nobility and doing things right over getting shit done. And much like other noble failures on the show (Ned, Robb) he paid horribly for it.

Maybe Tyrion could have told him as well to go for the kill instead of grandstanding over your downed opponent because (as Tyrion well knows) words don't hurt as much as steel.

Watched Takahata's wonderful and bittersweet Only Yesterday today at a retrospective of Studio Ghibli movies.

I almost teared up too. Not just from Oberyn's beautiful speech, but the display of utter emotion shining from Tyrion's eyes.

I can watch maybe 2 episodes before I get annoyed at the conspicuous consumption. I'm never annoyed at people who have a ton of money spending a ton of money on shit they don't care about — if I were a billionaire, I would have 24K gold spoons to scoop up my caviar.

no, I think Fitz+Simmons is the best thing to come out of this show. I want to smush their sweet little nerd faces together until they expire from lack of breath.

She's the Will Ferrell of premium cable, I guess. That man cannot wait to strip to his tighty whities.

OK, actually, even though you took my comment as an ad hominem attack, it kind of wasn't meant to be?

Actually, I don't enjoy or watch the show at all; I can't bear shows in which characters suffer humiliation (see also: Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office UK). But I read about the fat shaming Dunham goes through and it's interesting to me as a woman and feminist.

Agreed. I'm always bemused by all the hate that gets piled on Lena Dunham for appearing nude all the time.

I can't work out Shae's motivation — there is hurt and anger after being dumped, and then there is lying on the stand to accuse your ex of regicide in order to get him executed.

Tyrion is my favorite character on the show, and to have him finally getting a great scene to play (against Charles Dance, who just might be my favorite actor on the show) after a run of Tyrion-light episodes is deeply satisfying.

Even better: Margaery says "Sister… or mother" and the scene closes on a tight focus of Cersei's extremely vexed face.

I also thought that Cersei — while sincerely and completely loving her children almost to the exclusion of the rest of humanity — is not above using her love for them to subtly manipulating people. I mean: she is an excellent liar, but there is a special power and grandiosity to her when she talks about her love for…

The look of the episode was his surprised 'what me?' look when Arya listed his name last on her To Be Killed list.

Weird coincidence, but I watched Don Jon yesterday too. I liked it a bit less than you: fine performances, indifferent directing style, and a script that felt more like a thesis supported by three paragraphs of carefully argued evidence than an organic story.