Doesn't everyone think Arya is dead, though? At the very least, after her disappearance from King's Landing shortly after Ned's execution, she hasn't been viewed as a player still on the board by any of the major factions. I'm not sure how Euron could know to look for her.

It's interesting how even in the era of Peak TV, where writers can be pretty sure that viewers have watched every episode of a serialized narrative in order, they still feel the need to spend a season premiere explaining "where things stand" for all the major storylines.

Eh, they have a special Blue Rose form for that. The real question is, would Janey-E be willing to move out by the Philly field office with the kid, and what will her reaction be when she finds out her real husband is actually a golem who was turned into a gold marble?

Who wouldn't give consent to Naomi Watts?

Scarlet Johansson spends a good chunk of her screen time trying to espouse transcendental nonsense like an undergrad freshman on shrooms, and there's no indication that Besson realizes how silly she sounds.

One of the more terrifying things about all this is the army of digital jackbooted thugs that's cropped up, using techniques like doxing and Twitter lynch mobs to go after administration critics and reporters. If you spend some time in the dark corners of 4chan and Reddit, you see this disturbing authoritarian…

Have any of the Faceless Men been shown to steal a face, and then magically become bigger or smaller than usual?

Yeah but they kind of hit all those points over and over and over again, and her season 2 arc is also bogged down in "WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS?!" stasis. The series' big issue is the need to keep fan favorite characters on-screen during periods where they aren't doing much, so that all of the storylines can converge at…

Clay Aiken probably could have saved the republic if he'd revealed this information a year ago.

I think a couple episodes like 7 & 9 were inevitable after Lynch spent the first few episodes introducing so many plot threads in different locations. The narrative had become complicated enough that we needed Hawk and Cole staring at the camera and making sense of everything.

He did own a brothel staffed with teenage prostitutes, and we know he had sex with at least one of his daughter's underage classmates.

Maher isn't really a libertarian. He has the libertarian's dislike of "feel-good" nanny statism, wants weed to be free for selfish reasons, and doesn't like when Republicans are in charge of the surveillance state, but he's basically on board with every big government policy yet imagined and doesn't care if the…

TV Guide jokes? How does Bill Maher manage to say so topical with his pre-written tweets while he's on vacation?

It's kind of weird how he's miscast as everyone except a Spartan king.

Some recappers and commenters claimed that the second sequence took place in Pearl Lakes. Having only seen the episode once, I assumed that was what the title card said. Subsequent viewings prove this is not the case. Sorry for any confusion!

I'm proud to say I didn't even know there was a Kardashian brother until I read this article.

I'm also pretty sure that infection required a magic curse.

Maybe there is no deadly bacteria in Westeros. I don't think we've ever seen anyone die of infection even after lots of hand-to-hand combat with missing limbs and such.

My much younger cousins, who are now around 18 and 20, saw The Phantom Menace as kids, didn't see what the big deal was, and discovered the originals later and became huge Star Wars nerds. In many ways they were spared the indignity of George Lucas raping their childhood, because the prequels were their childhood.…

I'm still a little annoyed that we didn't get a Sean Bean-starring Odyssey spin-off, but I guess Troy didn't really make enough money to justify that.