This is the kind of thing where probably 90% of Dany's plot in the book that Martin isn't releasing is just retaking this one castle from the 10 Lannisters who are currently holding it. And the show skipping right over it is tactically dumb, but does contribute to the showrunners actually being able to end the damn…

They're all available on Hulu for people in the US, though you need to subscribe to get them the day after they air instead of a week after they air. Hope that helps!

I don't know whether Alicia would take on Sweeney at a firm where's she's a partner, but he is definitely going to try and follow her as soon as he finds out about the schism.

I think he liked the idea of screwing over Lockhart Gardner, likes Carey where he hates Josh, and that going back to LG at first was a way of testing his power with Peter. If there are ethical problems he can still jump ship for the third firm and look like he's above it all later.

A billion months after the fact here, but I think Cosima is concerned less about the company owning the clones in a human slavery type setting, and more about them limiting the clones' abilities to use information from their genome to inform their healthcare decisions.

Well if she was trying to send him somewhere where he would be unlikely to be disturbed, the other side of the world might have seemed like a good bet. I have no explanation for why she knew Canada was there but didn't know that it was inhabited.

Maybe the files he took from the compound will end up being important later. 

Yeah, the CIA very much does not want the congressional committee or anyone else to know Brody walked into a safe room with the vice president, et al with an explosive vest on and that he was then offered immunity for having done so.  In show world, I'm team Carrie and Saul, but if this were real life and I were…

He should already know, but acceptance is definitely contingent on graduation and sometimes contingent on maintaining your gpa, so if he's failing everything now he would still be screwed.   It would have been easy for them to make that his explicit concern instead of a vague fear that could be read as thinking he may…

The other issue with the prostitutes (and it is also a raging issue with the source material), is that there were centers of power for women in actual medieval society that did not involve women being prostitutes that haven't made it to the game of thrones world, namely convents.  Some convents, especially in the…

Homemade desserts anyway.  Oreos are actually vegan, and it's not uncommon for mass produced desserts to attempt to fake the effect of dairy and eggs with corn syrup and chemicals. 

I think there's something to be said for the extent to which Ted's inability to grasp that the latter quest is important has damaged the former.  There are people who chase the unavailable because they really just want to date lots of people but don't want to admit it, and people who do it because they're not looking…

Elena's hair could totally stay straight (assuming she could avoid sweating too much, which I think is a vampire thing in this show, and might also help to explain the longevity of the makeup?), but there's no way Rebecca maintained the curls at the bottom of her hair her hair without re-upping with a curling iron…

Did the WB maybe do promos that made it seem basically like the OC or One Tree Hill or something?  I've had a couple of people who've never seen it tell me that they thought it was basically that kind of crap targeted at teen girls.  They had no idea about the dialogue and the references and the quality of the writing…

I love this aspect of it too, and I think you're right that it would be insane to suggest that Foster is not incredibly talented and polished.  In addition to the discipline issues, making it on Broadway totally takes luck, and getting access to the right parts at the right time, and there are loads of talented people…

Ohhhhhhh, if you're in the UK that totally explains the confusion!  We're just less specialized about everything in education in the US, right down to not making students focus on particular academic subjects the way you guys do for A-levels.  Only a tiny subset of people prepping to be dancers here would have access…

The time commitment for ballet classes can vary a lot by school and how serious the program is, but think of ballet as a hobby like high school sports are a hobby.  Truly talented dancers with excellent teachers, can absolutely go professional with the amount of training Fanny has the girls doing, especially if they…

Yeah, Tyler was absolutely correct to be completely brassed off about that one.  Hopefully this is leading to some self-reflection about how they make these decisions. 

Yeah, Tyler was absolutely correct to be completely brassed off about that one.  Hopefully this is leading to some self-reflection about how they make these decisions. 

Well for one thing, I'm pretty sure that there's usually twice as much plot in a single Vampire Diaries episode as in a whole Twilight movie.