All of this could actually help the case that Melisandre will resurrect Jon, as well. She's at essentially her lowest point right now, with her savior defeated and her faith in her own abilities and possibly the Red God shattered. An age-old storytelling pattern often has a character's greatest victory coming shortly…

Again, where was this confirmed? You're talking about a 24 hour time period of which we saw less than 10 minutes. It only takes a couple of minutes for Jon to grab several of the more veteran brothers and tell them that thousands of undead attacked them at Hardhome. It would have come up naturally when he showed up at…

Agreed, I'm not sure why their deaths are listed as "assumed" in the review. That scene wasn't scored or edited like a suicide, it was shot like it was a jailbreak. Gotta be a big pile of a hay or something at the bottom of that wall.

As Beric Dondarrion told Melisandre after one of his many resurrections, apparently after death in the Lord of Light religion there is no afterlife. Which, for Stannis, will probably be even more awkward.

Did he though? The only thing WE saw was Jon talking to Sam about Hardhome. That doesn't mean he didn't tell the rest of the Night's Watch about it, though I could be forgetting if Jon specifically said he was keeping it a secret. Plus, at least a couple Night's Watch members made it back from Hardhome with Jon, you…

That narrative path isn't impossible to counter, though. Just look at Kingsman earlier this year, which also opened slightly above expectations against a non-action flick with which it had little crossover (in this case, 50 Shades of Grey). It held really well at the box office from week-to-week, usually only dropping…

I really liked how the speeches mirrored each other. You got to see Stannis give his speech to Shireen as an act of love. But Roose's speech to Ramsay was an act of control - not given to comfort a weakened child in need of affection, but to placate a dangerous child who could realistically murder him, his unborn…

People who don't think Vince Vaughn can pull off a dark, dramatic role have never seen Clay Pigeons.

I think it was definitely a good movie that has been unfairly maligned. I wouldn't go so far as to call it great, but I'm also not going to fight those who vociferously defend it because it deserves a better defense than "eh, it's alright'

I'm sure Colin Farrel will do his best to fill the void in his topless scenes.

I believe Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character died of some sort of heart defect.

I think the key difference is that almost all of Whedon's shows are set in worlds where death is a constant threat. When characters died in Buffy, Angel or Firefly/Serenity their deaths could be shocking, yes - but it's hard to say a character's death comes completely out of left field when you are constantly fighting…

Your Shonda-apologist comment sounds more like the rantings of an obsessive than anything written in this article.

It's a miracle everybody on Frasier managed to survive.

Somebody should really file an OSHA complaint because based on how many characters they've killed off the Grey's Anatomy hospital is clearly not a safe place to work.

What Weiner intends for the character doesn't really matter once it's out in the world, though. Viewed in isolation, Glen's a pretty obviously creepy character, and I Weiner the Younger's shortcomings as an actor actually work to the show's benefit in light of that.

I believe there was also a scene late in The Sopranos run, season 5 or 6, where Tony has dinner with a group of Meadow's friends and really hits it off with them thanks to his wit and humor, eerily similar to the scene with Don and Sally's friends in this episode.

It's the talisman that will deliver peace on earth.

As Tom Haverford explained to us, cakes are just bigass cookies.

I loved how Boone's final fate is to just serve as an escape opening for Ava. Sure the guy had skills and some entertaining moments, but he hadn't earned up enough respect to deserve a death that stands on its own.