Can’t wait for the episode where they have a funeral over the toilet and flush his ashes.

Some really nice writeups this year. For a while I was distracted by how intent you seemed on comparing what you liked with the opinions of others, as if you suddenly didn’t trust your own reactions, but then I remembered what you wrote in the first instalment about how much the presence of other critics and friends we…

Great catch on the song. Shudder.

Well, if John Irving had shut up about wrestling and Vienna for a second, he wouldn’t have been stabbed.

It’s pronounced “gay orgy, oooh!”

How embarrassing. I thought those two were father and son. Yeesh.

Heh, milk pregancy drama.

We’ve known his name is Alex since at least the time he got ratted out to the bounty hunter.

Are we just going to forget about the influence of Cop Rock!?

Why, for 54 years I’ve put up with them now!
I must stop these Grinch adaptations from coming! But how?

That’s America’s ass.

“Should we tell him about the zipper?”
“Nah, it’s so much funnier watching him try to put it on this way.”

The club from The First Wives Club was the best of the memorabilia jokes.

It has the air of an show-runner decision, along the lines of, “We need to cull some bodies here, if we’re going to do justice to any of them.” Nahn was the least essential of any of the bit players.

There’s an ominous scene at the end of “Paterfamilias” that I keep replaying in my head where we see Charles return from school and the servants are basically doing the motherly tasks of welcoming him home, while Elizabeth looks on with an inscrutable expression, then turns around and shuts the door.

Yeah, he’s practically salivating at the possibility that she might slip up and break her promise. Of all the things we’ve seen him do, that might be the most moustache-twirling (or, you know, cunt-hair twirling).

Who would’ve predicted that back in season one, eh?

I would forgive a lot about this show if they just have him stay on forever, planning Harry’s wedding with a long white beard.

I thought it was in keeping with how Edward was introduced earlier in the season. I adored the line, and I took it at face value - Edward knows from cunty, and he was actually impressed. Hell, I was impressed that Charles could bring the shade like that.

I think I’d make time for the Queen’s press secretary and skim his book, with an eye towards tapping his insider political familiarity for something more marketable. Actually, the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that that was the only reason she looked at the first manuscript.