No, it's not.

The big twist definitely does not arrive in the penultimate episode.

I really like how Jericho isn't scared of anybody. It's one thing to square up to Goldberg but it's another to do it with Lesnar.

It seemed like the way Charlotte dropped Sasha in the corner was a botch and they were both rattled by it to the point of making everything else clumsy.

If you listen to the cast recording that's out there, you'll cringe for the duration and then totally realise why the it's so beloved by a particular, fairly embarrassing chunk of the media.

Exhausting is how I'd describe it too. I can't think of anything else I've read where I felt like I was actively taking breaks.

I don't think anything has given me existential dread like the brief flashforward asides in the old man's backstories of World War 2: things like "…the soldier, who would later have his head split open with a spade in a Russian POW camp, said…"

August was a bad month for me, reading wise (and probably in other ways too):-

The response to the Olympic football game has been hilariously tragic. If just about edging out Germany's Under-21 squad in a penalty shootout to win an irrelevant medal is what was needed to get Brazil back on its sporting feet after the brutality of 7-1, then they're even more desperate than I thought.

The amount of communist invective in soviet era films is always overplayed. At it's worst, it's like the Hayes Code from the 40s or the big business pandering of the 80s.

"Right there, fella!"

Excellent picks. They're my favourite Leonard and Ellroy books.

I got a coffee from Costa on Saturday morning and their systems were fried so I had to pay with the app and, in an awkward moment with the barista, I handed her my phone, she saw the iPhone wallpaper and started to ask if that was my… then paused when she realised the image was probably too old to be girlfriend and…

They use new equipment and have a lot of sex? Gross.

As a just-about-suburban white kid born in the late 80s, my perception is totally different. To me, punk and rock music is stuff my dad listens to that sounds incredibly boring, out of date and corporate, but, in regards to people my own age, I always associate it with super heteronormative and vaguely racist…

On the other hand, almost anybody could walk on set, take a quick look at the script and then be a million times better than Tyrone Power on the first take.

These kids and their "moving pictures." Back in my day, we had the magic lantern, the zoetrope, and there were none of these "special effects." It was real and we liked it that way.

A movement, which, if you follow back far enough, has been ostracised in America since the early days of Detroit techno because of its association with blacks and gays.

The wedding cake shaped like Auschwitz-Birkenau was a little much but I suppose it is the entire century that's being summarised, not just the highlights.

He ended up in hospital because the fake cocaine has zero calories in it and his body didn't know how to process it.