That episode was at once both very dumb and very enjoyable. I've kind of given up on the show having good dialogue anymore, but it can still bring the atmosphere when it counts.

I agree with you. But watching the campaigning, Cameron et al have basically done anything they can to change the subject when it comes to immigration, because they know that 'immigrants are a net benefit' just doesn't cut it anymore. Which is a real pity, but that (misplaced) perception is the reason this referendum…

Put another way: Leavers have no argument on the economy, Remainers have no argument on uncontrollable immigration.

The Daily Mail is is pro-Brexit, the Sunday Mail is pro-Remain.

I think that's the problem — I wanted them to try and hurt each other. That probably makes me a sadist, but it's not much of a 'Civil War' otherwise.

You know, there *was* too much action in Civil War. I'd have happily traded much of it for a couple more scenes of the group just talking.

There's been a *significant* drop in the quality of the dialogue this season. I'm not a book-reader, but it's very obvious that the show's going off on its own now.

Yup, it feels like the show no longer knows what to do with its best characters. For an ensemble that feeling is occasionally inevitable, but for this long? No.

Hooray! Arya's fucking interminable assassin storyline is over.

This seems to have become a bit of a meme on Twitter, but I'm not sure what use there is in conflating a lone gunman massacre to a government-sanctioned one.

I read another interview with Bale where he said he played Bateman as an emotional vampire who just replicates the mood of anyone he's in a scene with. It's really apparent on rewatch, particularly with the Defoe's detective.

I don't like the whole High Sparrow digression, but Pryce is very at home on the show. He sells every line while also being aware of how silly the whole thing is. If he could somehow stick around after the Sparrows are inevitably decimated I'd be happy.

I guess this is what some people would politely call a 'table-setting' episode.

Farell's a comedy actor trapped in a leading man's body.

I liked both, but I thought True Detective's first season wiped the floor with Fargo's, which didn't get particularly good until about its halfway point.

I get that literary reference!

Well, going by the old x2.5 rule, you kind of do have to make about 3 times as much as your budget to make profit as added marketing and distribution costs are enormous for blockbusters. But in BvS's case the money may not have even mattered that much if the film made people really excited for future installments…

Because BvS is not comparable to most Marvel movies. These are two of the biggest superheroes in pop culture in a live action movie for the first time ever. Warner Brothers were positioning this to be their Avengers, and they evidently know they blew it.

$850m really isn't that much in blockbuster terms these days. The last two Avengers movies made $1.5b each, so given all the supposed novelty potential surrounding a batman and superman movie, under a billion is definitely the low end of expectations.

I'm beginning to suspect I'm the only one who liked 'Porno'. It was obviously written to be more comically absurd than Trainspotting, and I laughed out loud several times reading it. Welsh's compulsion to keep returning to that world has become a little tiresome, though.