Can Sam Reid be the MCU’s Gambit too?

It is Caracalla and Geta in this movie yeah 

Given that Chef Joel seems to have been initially intended as a stand in for Thomas Keller (at Per Se rather than French Laundry), Keller’s cameo and the French Laundry notebook that also appears in either this episode or the following one seem to be an attempt to make nice with Keller given that he doesn’t seem to be…

Let’s be honest, his output has always been a little spotty. When he hits, he fucking hits, but as far back as ‘92 he made a garbage historical drama with 1492: Conquest of Paradise. And I know some people love the camp of Legend, it is also arguably pretty bad.

I wouldn’t call All the Money a masterpiece, but it certainly wasn’t bad. It was a perfectly serviceable thriller and kept me entertained for the runtime

want her to secrete herself away somewhere

when does ‘of late’ even start with a career like scott’s?

My guess is S3 is tweaked a bit where Lestat begins the tour and outs himself on purpose to deflect attention from Louis, and Louis is with him to some capacity during the tour and the entire business with Akasha. We might also get a subplot with Daniel/Armand. 

Has there been (simulated) fellatio on an erect penis (very erect) on prestige TV before? I cannot remember anything so graphic.

It’s kind of hilarious that this finale episode would offer an aside about how this French vampiric theater troupe in Paris had decided to produce shows mostly in English during a motorcycle escape that ends in flames. I almost wished the show hadn’t felt the need to further explain that odd bit of lore (or that,…

“Canny planner that he was, Armand Louis manages to blow up two more vampires as they make an escape on their motorcycles...”

I didn’t think either of them was melodramatic at all in that scene, though it ws super intense. But I thought they were both heartbreaking, the pain in their eyes and their voices, like when Lestat asked about what happend to Louis in 1973.  

This is the man who gave us Grover, Elmo, Oscar, and Kermit Tully. 

I’m most excited to see if the show is going to stick to the book’s conceit that all the Tullys of this era have the names of Muppets. Lord Grover’s been mentioned several times, but his grandson Elmo and great-grandsons Kermit and Oscar may be pushing things on a TV show in a way that the book could just barely get…

I think he’s trying to drive a wedge between Aegon and Alicent. It wasn’t about the actual result of it - it was about making Aegon think that Aemond and Alicent wanted him out of the way, which I read as the reason for Aegon’s later humiliation of Aemond.

This episode underscores the issues of Alicent’s age change and making her Rhaenyra’s former friend - I understand wanting this to be a conflict between women, but the true conflict (right now) is between Rhaenyra and Aegon, and through that lens, it looks like Rhaenyra is a better person but doesn’t have a handle on…

I think he just made up that rumor to get himself a job on the council / make himself seem useful to the king.

Can I just say that’s the weirdest Arthurian reference I’ve ever seen in a serious piece of work?

the Brackens and Blackfoots were so easily goaded into annihilating one another, weren’t they?

“Instead, it feels like the filmmakers could not legally use the actual iconic words so they had to substitute something similar.”