This is a spoiler of sorts (I don’t mind). I doubt the second half of the season is just the Night King hanging out with his bros, doing fun lich king things.

They should be asking themselves, in each action, in every moment, “What would Tony Scott do?”

I love Pollard, because that same character is always fun. I love the trailer for Dirty Little Billy as well (and the knife fight, though I still need to watch the whole movie).

He’s I think a science teacher who gets stabbed in the eye. It looks like all of his (one, two?) scenes are on youtube.

Little Fauss and Big Halsy: Michael J Pollard and Robert Redford in a 1970s biker movie that imdb trivia (not always to be trusted) implies Redford hated, but it’s probably one of his better movies and best performances. He plays a grifter who can’t help but cheat and lie constantly, but coasts on his looks in the…

It could cut back to just before he was captured and executed, sending a raven to Howland Reed.

Of a book reading by Seymour Hersh on C-SPAN, all I remember is an audience member taking him to task for a blurb that endorsed a book that was not good. I just remember Hersh’s defense was something like “That’s just the way the publishing industry works.”

Your word is revelation.

Well, I know for some reason that Uncle Tupelo broke up because... searches memory banks ...Jeff Tweedy put his arm around Jay Farrar’s girlfriend at a party? I don’t know. I think at one point I remember reading both people’s account of a very tiny human interaction among people I’ll never meet, and taking that as…

The Clovehitch Killer: Dylan McDermott in a boy-wonders-if-his-dad-is-a-serial-killer thriller. Liked it a lot, excellently tense. Lovely to see McDermott just be a casually terrifying dad/Boy Scout leader with a bad back, who makes Dad jokes, and happens to have a conspicuous locked shed and a tendency to leave bondag…

As the turkey is dead and in our mouths and we chew while remembering people who gathered together in common humanity and then one later slaughtered the other, it’s helpful to think of Sean Penn’s lines from The Thin Red Line:

I don’t see how this can clear the high bar set by Jason X.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: SPOILERS I found it all too slight to stick in my craw (as always with Coens, might change on second watch). Of the first three I like Franco’s the best for being most clearly what it was: joke setup, punchline. Loved the Neeson one but it needed more complication in its lazily brutal…

I always felt Narcos had nothing to offer that could not be gained by watching Goodfellas in Spanish.

If she rebranded as Nermal she would rule the entire world.

It’s neat to see Guinn Turner sound so different from the only other time I’ve seen her act (I assume this was partly staged), as Patrick Bateman’s impossibly haughty Sarah Lawrence friend

Like you I haven’t read The Little Drummer Girl either. I guess it was dealing with a group of protagonists similar to those in the Spielberg film Munich, but it was, at least in its early chapters, not anywhere near that’s film’s distaste for retributive/peremptory violence (but maybe that was where it was going).

I really loved the opening chapter of this book, but never got much further into it. I think my problem was the usual “it’s a tough world, and we need antiheroes to make tough choices” mindset that justifies violence. I prefer the kind of cruel/absurd worldview for action, like No Country, where there’s no connection…

Is the undead talking referred to above real? If so it is hilarious and wonderful. The Walking Dead turned into The Return of the Living Dead so slowly I didn’t notice.

W. Earl Brown as Dan Dority is definitely back. He has been the primary source for Deadwood info via his Twitter and Instagram. He’s posted about his table read and costume fitting.