Incidentally, I love that the High Sparrow basically follows Voltaire's (possibly apocryphal) thinking on orgies: "once a philosopher, twice a pervert."

Tormund: They call me Tormund Giantsbane.
Brienne: I did not ask.
Tormund: Know why they call me Giantsbane?
Brienne: [*silence*]
Tormund: Because [**eyeing her up and down**] giantsbane runnin' through my mind all day, girl, come he— [**Brienne kills Tormund**]

Whenever I see Max Von Sydow, I always think because of his age, look, accent and presence that "oh he's gotta be a secret Nazi in this." Even on Game of Thrones—it's that ingrained.

Someone I was watching with speculated that Hodor might be connected with the battles Ned took part in (which I believe ended with him returning with Jon Snow). And that perhaps his first real words will help reveal something about Jon's parentage.

But writers are supposed to be able to repeatedly come up with things entirely out of left field which have never been thought of by any of the millions of fans speculating online.

With all the criticism they've taken for the lack of Westeros momentum in Dany's story over the years, they really did double (triple? quadruple?) down on it today: Tyrion and Varys really, really planning on getting down into the nitty-gritty of governance in Mereen— wouldn't be surprised about a zoning meeting or…

There's been no solemnization but this site is clearly in a common law marriage with This Week Tonight. Just review it already so the newswire can go back to being somewhat newsy.

That's exactly it. You helped me realize what separates those shows you mentioned—and also The Shield, Justified, Deadwood and The Wire, all of which often had those kinds of moments—from the likes of even generally-good shows such as The Americans. The element of dark comedy is critical. I was never able to fully…

I've found that to be the one of the more infuriating things about the media coverage. I'll leave aside for the moment the constant but somewhat separate issue of the media giving him the kid gloves treatment with their lack of pressing follow-ups (at least until recently).

I loved The Sopranos cut to black ending, but I think the showrunners of this mind-numbing nonsense psyched themselves up to be the next David Chase-type figures in the TV landscape: "Gosh these viewers of ours with their disgusting blood-lust need to be taught a lesson. Because I'm making a very important show about A…

I feel as though the seemingly-unprecedented backlash to this shit ending is so resounding that ratings-obsessed AMC will order the showrunners to decree who was killed—soon. As borne out by that piss-poor dub-job at the end of last week's episode, they're not looking to make any sort of grand artistic statement about…

I feel like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire would still be popular if it didn't allow games to carry over onto two days. I hated that. I think Deal Or No Deal did this too but might be wrong. Game shows aren't serialized dramas—people want some resolution within an episode's running time.

Goddammit I had totally purged this from my memory until now. I haven't heard it in a very long time.

I feel like the "well played, Mauer" guy from the Sony commercials has been doing it for a long time too.

With this type of thing, would it not be relatively trivial to encode an encrypted and imperceptible watermark across the entirety of each frame, in which it identified the person who ordered the movie? And if it gets out, they'd know who to go after.

From my limited understanding, sentence structure in Hindi has some play to it, as in English. In this case 'din' means 'day' and 'kissa' means 'story'. Akin to how the English analogue can be compared between "the story of the day" and "the day's story".

Any other Indians here? It should be "Yeh Din Ka Kissa", not 'Yen', no? Looks like one source typo from some overwhelmed intern somewhere is catching fire.

Their message board is terrible on mobile. I think it shows something like five topics, first of all. But when you go a couple of pages deep, click a thread topic and then you go back—boom, back at page one. It's unusable. It's as if their team has never tried using their own system.

This is the primary we need. Young, charismatic standard-bearer like Tom Hardy? Is Gary Oldman too old and too one-note? Is the internet finally ready to rally behind a snubbed woman like Glenn Close as the Oscar meme leader? Is the nation suffering from Amy Adams fatigue and her poor net favorability rating?

There's a 'you guessed it… Sylvester Stallone" joke in here somewhere. The pieces are all there for an intrepid commenter.