...and they didn’t even lean into that ‘flourish’ - they really half arsed it! 

That was the bullet he shot himself with, not a screw!

I saw the suggestion that this was a nomination on the basis of people understanding that the editor in question was working under difficult circumstances and without the director to refer to...but then they mentioned on ‘The Hollywood read’ podcast that Singer was apparently invited back to help out in the editing…

No kidding on Dorff. As I watch him in this, I just find myself wondering ‘where the hell has he been all these years?’. I expected Ali to be fantastic, but Dorff has been a revelation.

I saw it on a plane, and my boyfriend had to shush me repeatedly as I couldn’t stop laughing out loud at its utter awfulness. It was just...atrocious on every level.

They tried out a 10 episode season for Iron Fist season 2, and it was a bit improvement - none of that midseason sagginess they tended to get previously.

Oh no Westworld, you don’t get me back that easily. You and I both know that within 2 episodes you’ll have poor Aaron Paul making lofty, inexplicable speeches based around the content of undergrad philosophy classes, before unceremoniously and needlessly killing him off. I am on to you, show.

I just keep remembering how distraught at the result I was when I happened to be in the US for a business trip during the election, and my American colleagues were all ‘hee, silly girl, the candidates are really much of a muchness’. They just didn’t see what they’d let into power.

A reminder: England haven’t won a knockout round match since 2006. The chatter about which route to the final is easier for us seems...a wee bit premature to me.

In season 1, Hale uploads the data to Abernathy (since he was just decommissioned and sat in cold storage) and tasks Lee with creating him a personality to get him out of the park. 

I’m attending an early screening of the finale tomorrow at the BFI, and will then have to avoid the internet until Sunday for fear of accidentally blurting out spoilers. Wish me luck.

The character went by the alias Grace until they revealed her actual identity.

Charlotte is just the absolute worst. Completely lacking in a single redeeming feature. I am positively craving her death at this point.

Ditto. This is rarely a show I engage with on an emotional level - I normally find myself turning it round in my head like a puzzle -but between the scene in cold storage, Lee losing it over Maeve, that mother crying over the lock of hair and the ending, I was a blubbering mess.

Last season Maeve adjusted Hector and Armistice’s settings so their mortality was at the lowest settings - that’s why they can be peppered with bullets, and survive losing an arm. As for why Maeve didn’t adjust her OWN settings however...

And rushing in to cradle her on his lap, which doesn’t exactly scream ‘i’m saving you only because you’re useful’.

The group that find Bernard on the beach seem to be an entirely different set of people to the current group that have just arrived and are in the Mesa- it seems like this current group will mostly get wiped out in Dolores’s attack, necessitating a further wave of human support from the mainland.

Maeve altered Hector and Armistice’s programming last year, turning down their ‘mortality’ rating - which allowed them both to surive their murder spree in the hub. Most of the other hosts still have their normal settings in place, so will be killed by a gunshot or being stabbed.

We saw Hector take a wee last year, so they do pee. Whether they can get UTI’s...no clue.

I was thinking as I was watching it ‘imagine experiencing this as an Australian first thing in the morning, with a hangover...?’. I’m glad to know you are all devotees, as opposed to mildly bemused by it.