It's not really a spoiler to be fair. That Walter is going to die at the end is pretty much a given. Rude - kind of, but it was to illustrate a point, and it won't impact your enjoyment of Breaking Bad in the slightest. You should absolutely watch it.

Things get a bit muddier when it comes to people who don't live in America. I do think there ought to be a little courtesy shown by people who download episodes as soon as they've aired in the US towards those who wait until domestic air-dates. But I think once a show has been on TV locally, general discussion of all…

I honestly don't really see the point in the two reviews anyway - the expert one very seldom spoils, except occasionally in the bullet points at the bottom. It's only the comment thread where you really see spoilerish book information. They could easily merge the reviews, if they had a way to split the comments.

I missed the beginning of the competition AND I haven't seen season 2 of Hannibal yet, but I have to assume that AVClub picked what they thought were the best episodes from each show for 2014. If not, this competition is even more arbitrary than it seems. Nevertheless - Ozymandias is the best episode of anything I've…

Touché - I spent quite a while trying to decide the spelling of faint in the idiom. I could swear I've seen it written the sword-fighting way, but maybe that was in a pun, or by somebody else who can't spell? I should just have Googled!

Too good for Under the Dome: the definition of feint praise!

I'm not sure it's unreasonable that Tywin would have the guards outside his tower rather than just wandering around in his private quarters, especially when he's got a prostitute up there. The murders weren't really that noisy, either of them.

I think they tried to make her more genuine. I agree that it didn't work, but it could have done. If they'd made her a bit less vicious about her testimony at his trial and given her a scene that Tyrion didn't see that showed that she was being forced into it, she could have been a decent woman in very difficult…

Basically they changed things. All of your complaints are just "it's different from the books so it sucks". They killed Jojen and Grenn and Pyp BECAUSE it didn't matter to the story whether they lived or died. Of course they didn't HAVE to. I think it was probably mostly to reduce the number of named characters, but…

It was mentioned once in the series as Tyrion backstory, but that was back in the middle of season 1. There's no way it would have slipped easily back into the story here without a lot of awkward exposition. Tyrion had enough reasons to want to confront (if not actually kill) his father already. The Tysha story would…

Which is why I said you're welcome to think of it as badly written and directed. They clearly meant for it to not be rape. But you can't just film a rape scene and then say "it wasn't rape".

Okay - adding the idea of fucking teenage girls to the thread might not do you any favours in the whole "not creepy" stakes.

A woman being raped doesn't say "not here"?

I'm pretty surprised, if the plan is to drive them apart next season, that they didn't just start it earlier with the scene in the crypt with Joffrey. I thought that's what they were doing, and making Jamie a bit less black and white in the process. But no - suddenly Cersei wants to be with him again.

I'm just saying if you structured the show in a more linear way and took all of the action scenes out of the first 5 episodes you would RISK "pissing off every category of viewer". I love the way that season 4 is balanced, and think it plays very nicely - which contributes to why it's so popular. I'm not criticising…

Fargo has it's own toilet scene too, though I'm starting to think I'm the only person who watches that show!

On the other hand - the whole point of that scene was that Arya left him to die slowly. It would have changed the motivations if he'd died on screen, or if she'd killed him. Cutting back to him later in the episode, just to prove that he was dead, was never going to happen.

I don't dislike Dany, I just think her story is repetitive and disconnected.

I'm not complaining about the pace, but I'm saying that if you have 14 characters to kill in a season, and 4 hours of political machinations, you really need to mix them up, or you end up with a show that totally pisses off every category of viewer. You'd end up with a show where episodes 1 to 5 were essentially a…

I'm not sure how they could have brought Tysha back succinctly without it feeling like a curveball to viewers. She was mentioned once, in season 1, and hasn't been brought up again. Jamie suddenly confessing now would probably feel a bit out of the blue, especially given the amount of explanation they'd have to…