The best episode covered by Podmass in 2014 is…
1. Flop House, A Talking Cat!?! (Ep. 161)
Hey! They read my letter in that episode!

That Stereogum piece Rory posted above drives home how the conversation about Death Cab always comes back to how strongly fans tend to bond with particular albums. I think I'm lucky in a way that I came to them in early adulthood rather than adolescence, so every album they've made sounds to me like a new chapter in…

I listened to Narrow Stairs on a car trip recently, and for some reason it suddenly struck me as a really, really great album, whereas I took it for granted somewhat on its release. Listened to outside of the glare of its predecessors, it just kicked my ass all of a sudden and leapt up in their discography for me.

FLOPPERS!!! Mount up!
Merry Ca-aaaaagemas!

You know that one where Jess and Dean have a big fight at that party? That was a good fight. You wouldn't expect there to be a bracing, visceral fight scene in a GG episode, but there you go.

I'm so glad this thread is here. My rage at the museum robot's terrible science drove me here, and I knew the Clubbers wouldn't disappoint

I was looking forward to this, since the ads they ran during Louie looked funny and the cast is packed with ringers.
But that was a really disappointing pilot. It's not about being "married" at all, because Greer (who's the primary reason I tuned in) is barely in it, and when she is she's reduced to being a…

Much like a Yahoo Serious Film Festival, I know those words, but that headline doesn't make sense.

Say not in grief, "He is no more," but live in thankfulness that he was.

Dare I suggest that the standard for what constitutes "news" has ever so slightly dropped off at this site?

It's true, and it's crazy. Book Stannis is a silly prig, and at least show Stannis appears darkly charismatic.

Why, is that Dash Rendar's Outrider I see on the far left of this photo? Hmm, yes it is, yes it is…

If that episode of Who Charted isn't a must-listen, I don't know what is. That was riveting!

Unrelated question: why don't the Boltons have a worse reputation? It seems as though every child and chambermaid in Westeros knows the secrets of the Lannister household, but the Boltons are thought of well enough that Roose can sit comfortably in Robb's war council, despite all the flaying.
And it's not just Ramsay…

This has been mildly bothering me: In A Storm of Swords, Ygritte and the south-of-the-wall party have one goal, which is to come at Castle Black from the south to make it accessible from the north. When Mance and later Tormund treat with Jon about migrating to The Gift, they seem nothing if not reasonable: they want…

To put it another way, the book, and up until now the show, still regarded Sansa as a viable heir to Winterfell even after Joffrey's murder, since people generally assumed that it was Tyrion.
Consider that they now have her necklace with poison on it. That's "beyond a reasonable doubt"-conviction material even in the…

Hard and fast; fast and loose — same diff.
The Littlefinger thing is nutty; I was also cocking my eye at Melisandre making a pinpoint Gendry extraction from the middle of the country in a matter of days.

Of course she's a suspect. It's just that there's a difference between someone vanishing without a trace and that same person appearing to murder a knight and leave the evidence behind.

I struck me when we saw Tommen up there on the throne before the trial that they've really made a big change by aging him up.
"Book Tommen" is a sweet kid, but there's an absurdity to the concept of an eight-year-old kid who'd rather be playing with his cat and whose balls won't be dropping for another couple of years…

You can amuse yourself while watching the show sometimes by playing the game, "What Were These Characters Ostensibly Doing While They Were Off Screen?"