This episode I was proud of…..

I want all of these! I'm also squeeing in delight at the thought of Daisy at the farm taking in evacuees during the war, Violet and Isobel being introduced to "talkies" at the village cinema, and Moseley and Baxter meeting a funny Belgian houseguest….

Look, Robert was a first-class ass at the dinner party when they were discussing the war memorial. But Bunting displayed, at best, an appalling lack of social grace when she was invited to a party specifically for displaced Russians and accepted, then decided to criticize the Czar. Wretched as the Russian monarchy…

While I like the drama and complexity the drug subplot provides, I also feel like it renders a lot of last week a bit silly. If the ranch had been self-supporting, Cole's reluctance to sell would have been more understandable, but now they expect us to believe not ONE of the Lockhart brothers would have said "Yippee!…

I think the secret Wes told Rebecca was his mom's suicide. But… oh, Wes, can't you be a little smarter? I just want to feel less shallow in my choice of eye candy, is that so wrong?

But…. new Daario is better-looking. I thought they recast him because they couldn't buy Dany being into that funny-looking dude..

I see what you mean. Although I do feel like that's less true in non-YA genre fiction, which gets equally short shrift.

I was a Creative Writing minor, and if one more "Serious Writer-to-be" makes a disparaging or dismissive remark about genre fiction, I will beat them over the head with a Harry Potter book until they admit that fiction is allowed to be transporting and entertaining while still "worthy."