For all the legit complaints you could have about this season, it feels like a lot of fans are still just completely hung up about how Carmy and Syd still aren’t fucking, which is the only thing they care about. It’s really just sad now.

Abby Elliott given a chance to flex her acting chops and she crushed it.

Sunfyre seems like a sweetie

The Tullys in the book are 100% named Grover, Oscar, and—no joke—Elmo. So yes, that’s deliberate.

We just started The Bear and when Joel McHale shows up my partner and I both did a double-take. Completely unexpected.

Absolutely braindead take. If all you care about is plot, you should save yourself a few hours and read the episode summaries on Wikipedia instead of watching the show.

Right on the timing. They demonstrated the Nat/Syd connection with the omelette. It’s hard to make friends as an adult but I feel like when you do it’s swift and powerful. There’s real love between them, not least fueled by being caught in the storm of Carmy together.

I am older now (obviously) than when I watched GoT - more emotional instead of more cynical, though.

Just a timing note. I don’t think that Natalie has a known Syd for even two years at this point, has she? The Bear has only been open a couple of months. Syd only worked at the Beef for a few months before they discovery the money and decide to open the Bear. They have an extremely compressed build out…

She’s looking to EGOT. Assuming she’s a lock for a Guest Actress nod for Season 2. Nominations will be announced next week.

“I wonder if she knows that Cole and Rhaenyra had their own regrettable night of passion once upon a time.”

They’re writing for the actors now, and throwing in a lot of fanservice. There’s a reason we’re seeing a lot of Aemond swooshing around and being filmed in profile. He’s also being characterized in a way that suits the performance but isn’t in the book. Same for Aegon. Tom G-C is doing a great job of playing Aegon as…

“I wonder if she knows that Cole and Rhaenyra had their own regrettable night of passion once upon a time.”

I’d argue that this episode was the best episode since GoT season 7's “Spoils of War” (where Dany torched the Lannister army). One thing all of this franchise’s best episodes have In common is they’re all character centric. Rhaenys and Aegon were at center stage and the story seemed to almost unfold through their…

I’ve had my complaints about this show but that was a great episode from start to finish.

He’s getting there for sure.  Goggins really should be the pinnacle that all character actors strive for that aren’t named Margo Martindale, obviously.

I always think of Arrested Development and George Michael’s fear of visiting Pop Pop in prison because he mixed up Oz with The Wizard of Oz as a kiddo.

Never too late. Plus, enough time has passed that - stylistically’ - it’s now gone from being seen as “dated” to “ahead of its time”.

The scene between Tina and Mikey is so good. Obviously, Liza is fantastic so not downplaying that, but man, that’s such a showcase for the raw, natural charisma that Jon Bernthal possesses. It’s not quite “Walton Goggins” level for me, but it’s damn close.

The theme of this season is that everyone gets a moment to shine. This was a really nice episode though.