Not to say that's easy. It's super hard and a specialized skill. But the people who make hiring decisions take "viewer opinion" into consideration when hiring TV directors as much as they do when hiring sound designers.

Like 99% of of the job of a TV director is coming in under budget and on schedule. The last 1% is stuff we notice.

Ah, to live in the AV Club comments section, where Esposito and Hamilton are weird niche things that the AV Club is trying to "make happen."

It's also not just something culture reviewers made up. It's a long- and well-accepted component of both visual studies and feminism. There are dissertations on this shit.

But if we focus on the way America's long history of racism is buried deep in every facet of our culture, we'd be burying this lead: "Public domain songs are free and brand association is a thing!"

Not until you're dead.

Damn you're astute!

Same!

I love the cast album and I've listened to it a bunch, but I don't think I would have liked it much if I hadn't seen the show.

And I thought we'd be done with the "Culture website reports on cultural phenomenon?!" posts, but here we are.

All the characters work in support of The Grim Specter of Death.

Wait, who are the leads on Game of Thrones? Because Dinklage, Harrington, Headey, Williams and Clarke are all nominated for supporting roles. I know it's all gamesmanship, but still.

NOOOO!

He saves children, but not the British children.

Yeah, sorry for the name-calling. I was more frustrated at HBOGo.

I mean, second comment on a story that's basically a homing beacon to those who can't watch it?

Yeah thanks a lot, asshole.

I'm 100% with you, though I think the "occasionally makes things about her that shouldn't be" thing has more to do with the character she plays than anything she does herself.

"This is the End" co-opting that complaint, and Kevin Hart thinking it was surface-level hilarious, was my favorite joke in that whole movie.

Alternate theory: Ted is dying, and is dead in the future. The Mother knows every one of his stories so well that she can later type them all up and have Bob Saget (the actor) read them to her fatherless children.