It's politics are not as progressive as the show thinks and the way the political world is presented has barely a nodding acquaintance with the actual political world, but the acting and directing is stellar and it has some great dramatic moments.

I think there are a lot of questionable dynamics whenever an employer has sex with an employee. That's why, at a lot of places, you have to sign something for HR if you are entering a relationship.

Not rare, especially then. When Gillian Anderson got pregnant between seasons one and two of The X-Files, Fox wanted Christ Carter to get rid of her since they weren't fans of her to begin with. Luckily, he refused.

That's the real problem with his behavior, yet most of the articles I'm seeing, including this one, focus on the cheating. Hell, even the original essay only touched on it briefly. If Whedon was having affairs with his employees or, even worse, manipulating them into having sex with him then that's pretty fucking…

That line is the best.

It sounds like Showtime is up for more, and I think Lynch will want to do more. He has certainly left that door open in interviews. From everything he has said, filming this was extremely rewarding and he basically gets the freedom to do whatever he wants, so why wouldn't he take advantage of that? Especially since…

I started laughing when James played the song, knowing how fans would react, but I thought it was a great moment.

Neither was I, but boy am I pleased. A lot of this season feels like the first third of Fire Walk With Me. I remember when I first saw FWWM and I loved those scenes and was crushed we didn't get more of this weird version of the FBI investigating this surreal nightmare. But now we do! And with lots of shouting!

That so many have signal boosted McMullin is truly disgusting. He's views are monstrous and there is no need to put his voice forward. He basically has no national recognition so it does nothing. If this was, like, Orrin Hatch saying it then I see the strategy behind putting his statements forward, but there is no…

That episode had some of the season's best moments and some of its absolute worst. To get the bad out of the way:

That was my take on that (very creepy) scene, too.

There's a difference between the characters thinking she's great and the show thinking she (and, to a lesser extent, Jon) is great. The books allowed that she might have been an imperialist who hurt as much as she helped, which was much more interesting.

I meant about his decisions so she doesn't end up challenging him in front of everyone. He doesn't seem to learn.

He was on a whole boat trip with her between seasons!

I thought that was a pretty bad episode of the show. Daenarys' conversation with Varys made no sense. Why suddenly lash out at him? Isn't this a conversation that should've happened ages ago? The show's continued worship of Daenarys continues. The books allow us to see she's not a great leader but the show continues…

The show has been sorta inconsistent on that for a while now. For instance, what group of White Walkers attacked at the Fist of the First Men? Was that an advanced scouting party? Or are they just walking around, waiting for winter to officially start?

I could watch a whole show about the Hound's search for redemption. It's an arc we've seen so many times before, but it feels real here and McCann is such a talented actor.

I did not know that. Who was it?

I find AFFC and ADOD are interesting with the Iraq, or any occupation, parallels. You see Westeros post-war and how it's basically an ungovernable wasteland. Then in Meereen we see how "freeing" a people doesn't necessarily lead to them being free. I think part of the reason the story changed a bit is that Martin…

The Hardhome episode in the show is an all time classic, but I love the book's approach where we hear about it in the letter and we're not sure how much to believe. The books' unreliable narrators definitely elevates the level of surprise simply because we never quite know our footing.