"Cersei is back in King’s Landing continuing to embody some of our worst fears about female rulers"

I was confused by the line with Nymeria too. But I watched the creators' commentary scenes afterwards, and one of them explicitly says it's a call-back to season 1, when Ned Stark tells Arya about the future she'll have as highborn lady and she says, "That's not me." It definitely was Nymeria – some other, random…

I believe it was "rosinable" (reasonable).

"And you *obviously* must be Richard."
"You can tell 'cause of the glasses."

Exactly. She loves the crystal, it's just that she wants to change it from an elegant sit-down dinner (with a raw bar!) to a good ol' fashioned hoe-down to get her library money.

Reddit's already on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/am…

Oh shit. Quick, what's the fastest religion I can convert to?

That seems kinda dark for this show, no? I assume they'll have him accidentally getting high on some kind of noxious fume and launching himself on some kind of vision quest/motorcycle trip down to South America to find himself.

I was also thinking how sweet that was. But who comes for us atheists?

Why is no one talking about the brilliant verisimilitude of "Remember That We Suffered"? I swear, that was basically every conversation I ever had with my bubbe growing up.

David Hull is kicking ass as White Josh – he was fantastic in this episode. He's turning out to be one of my favourite characters – and he seems to be the sanest and nicest one of them all, too.

I heard about this show quite by accident – although I had earlier read Emily Nussbaum's review of it and forgotten all about it – and binged it in two days. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is fantastic in this role; I couldn't take my eyes off of her, waiting for her quick little looks at the camera. She definitely seems like…