Yeah, I mentioned this elsewhere too but Erik plugging the article in the newbies review seemed jocular to me, like he was winking that they'd never do something so clickbaity. That's why I didn't even think to seek it out at the noted midnight time, because I thought he was doing some meta-commentary on…

This article—title-aside—is interesting and the topic absolutely merits discussion, but something about the way Erik mentioned an imminent For Our Consideration article in the newbies review also seemed to suggest that it was a joke—like 'har, har, let's wait for the inevitable over-analyzing article amirite?'.…

A Song of Ice and Rape.

This is true. Surely seasoned veterans like Cersei and Jaime would have a real safe-word for when lines are genuinely crossed, like "pineapple" or "Roose-Bolton."

I don't know how to break this to you…

I know you're both saying Fierstein, but I can't help but imagining Harvey Weinstein—and the Entourage version of Weinstein, the fictional Harvey Weingard, at that—and thinking so that's how he made his millions.

Sean O'Neal posted it! I can't say no to that face pop-culture machine.

Her sensible comments about the movie are described in that linked TMZ article as her "denounc[ing] the project." Conjuring up images of Castro in the 60s railing against the US. Ridiculous. I feel stupider for having clicked that link.

Is it just me or are they starting to look alike?

While the show is enjoyable enough with 22-episode seasons, I can't help but think it would be better with a more manageable 13. I watch it all and enjoy them, but at the start of a television season, network dramas with the prospect of 20-some-odd episodes just seem so daunting and, well, exhausting.

And, say, the Austin City Limits Music Festival could be "acoastal". Language!

Has "bicoastal" always been a thing? Don and Pete sound supremely douchey when they say it. I kind of hate it.

Sorry, the correct answer we were looking for was an Office Space, "two chicks at the same time, man", response.

Her initial involvement in the new Terminator movie is what excited me about that project, before the later changes.

Megan Ellison really does seem to have spectacular taste. She's basically living the dream of what we all think we'd like to do if we were given millions (billions?) of dollars.

The exclamation wasn't italicized, OK!

And legal scholars will analyze the ensuing case's groundbreaking 'method actor defense' for centuries.

"We'll make it 'gritty' and call it Voorhees!"

Sure, I may have also said this about the macarena and been wrong, but the '2 x 2 y' fake-sequel-name formula will never get old.

Along the same line—that Mad Men isn't really the kind of show that would spawn a Talking-type follower—I think AMC misunderstood the lessons from The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad's consistent season-to-season rises in respective viewership.