I’m with you on the obliteration of expectations and the examples you used, except is prophecy bullshit? The one regarding Cersei seems to be true so far, and Daenerys had ones at the House of the Undead. I don’t really remember any others, but I also haven’t read the books only seen the show, so there are likely ones…

Don’t forget they introduce one of the only truly sweet characters and, after watching her parents be awful to her FINALLY give us a sweet scene with her dad and his whole “...but I wouldn’t send you away because you’re my daughter” speech just so he can...AAAAAH fuck you Stannis, so much fuck you for that!

Daughter just started high school, you are so right. Teams and clubs, plus the community service she was already doing. And that’s just the beginning, but she’s worth it. Colleges did not ask as much in my day, all the way back in olden days of the late 90's.

That’s why I stopped watching Talking a while ago, after some badly done death, (maybe Beth?) when it was clear the show was just about selling the audience on the “brilliance” of the show. They could have given Negan a super high-pitched voice or Carl a lazer firing out of his shot-out eye and Talking Dead would be…

Yes they are. My mom raised me solo, and I have many days when my wife and I are exhausted from running our daughter around that I just call my mom and thank her and tell her I don’t know how she did on her own what exhausts my wife and I as a team. Well damnit, someone is getting an even better Mother’s Day this…

Well played, beat me to it.

Every bit as great? I don’t know if you want to set the bar that high, Breaking Bad is one of my favorite dramas ever, which leads me to my concern. I have heard Saul is great, but I worry the world won’t feel right, and I worry I won’t be able to get past that.

Isn’t that the one where she ended up telling him she was just waiting for the cancer to return? So devastating, Anna Gunn was so great on that show.

And now I’m back to missing Breaking Bad like crazy, thanks so much I was just finally getting over it...oh who am I kidding I’m not over it going away. Time to start Better Call Saul, I guess, I’ve been reluctant to because of where the bar is set for that world.

You know the show and network weren’t caught off guard, just her, which meant they were already looking at replacements and probably asked him to keep it quiet. Also, do you really think it’s ok to bring up someone else's personal, perhaps painful topics on TV without warning like that?

When you say more than the other thing regarding Toby, are you referring to his plotline toward the end of the show? Because I thought that was awful and desperate, as well as out of character.

The young Jeb/Mrs. Landingham scenes are great and show she was always awesome but that her familiarity with him was well earned, as we’re the affects of her loss on him.

When Charlie is driven the crazy by President who’s searching for the perfect carving knife, only to find out it’s because Bartlet is giving him his family’s knife...

Tell me about it, I’ve been quoting the show a lot on this thread and haven’t had to look up anything, it’s all from memory

Abby was great, like the president she was originally supposed to be a very minor character but was too awesome to keep that way. Amy and Joey were both great, and Ainsley cut Sam down better than any other character. Nancy was steel, I thought her and John Amos were great in scenes together- though I always laugh…

I thought he did well on Sports Night, but I’m biased because I really like Dana and Natalie as characters.

I don’t understand the knock on Sorkin in regards to female characters (pre-Newsroom I mean, because that was afwul, though I didn’t think any characters were great on that). Of course, I don’t want to debate someone with a background in maritime law.

I don’t disagree that it would be a diplomatic disaster and she’d absolutely be called on the carpet and made to publicly apologize. But the physics of Sorkin’s universe are different, and the righteousness of one’s rant is inversely proportional to the consequences they suffer. The West Wing had great political…

My daughter thinks I thought that up, I worry she will be disillusioned with me if she watches West Wing and Sports Night and realizes that I have cribbed a fair amount of early Sorkin. Leo was so great, West Wing was so great because of relationships. Leo and Josh, Leo and the President (“Do you have a best friend?…

All these years later and this still always gives me goose bumps. The entire staff was wish fulfillment but C.J. was the best!