The actor was at the premiere.

Jorah received a royal pardon in exchange for his season 1 intel on Dany, coming through sometime around season 5. That's why she sent him away, forcing him to keep trying to come back via the fighting pits and "gifts" of Tyrion.

Is Jorah a prisoner? I thought he was quarantined. I figured he mentioned his dad at the door to get in, or something. There's no way the maesters don't know who he is.

Sky's rash is under the arm that mike is missing. Relevant??

Exactly. I'm always disappointed with the brand of commentary common in Game of Thrones/Westworld circles: the notion that when a TV writer chooses to write something, we need to acknowledge and respect that writing decision, as if the writer has no control over it. I feel it's completely valid to state that I think…

It's a surreal universe that just happens to feature a very common justification for why "good" men don't deserve to be accused of the rapes they've committed? ("But he's a good student! He's not like those REAL rapists!")

I will never be comfortable with the idea that Leland wasn't responsible for what Laura endured, especially in the current social landscape concerning sexual assault. The men who commit those crimes aren't extraordinarily evil or possessed. They are average, normal men who are often simply forgiven by the people…

They did that with Monica too, by explaining that her absence from the plot is due to her basically being successful and therefore out of the orbit of Pied Piper's fuckery.

David Lynch is a visual artist who works in vignettes. He does stuff he thinks is cool. People can have all the fun they want trying to force everything to make sense, but Lynch certainly isn't making this show from that perspective.

Period shows are harder to pull off than anyone realizes. Mad Men succeeded because it was just genius, and because everyone involved realized that if you're starting in the year 1960, you have to dress the characters in clothes that were purchased in 1958 and espouse the values of their formative years, which would…

The fact that this is all based on real stuff doesn't make it entertaining to watch in the absence of other measures of quality. The events of my real life would bore you to tears. Verisimilitude isn't a substitute for greatness. There's a school of media commentary that I don't understand, which is defending a plot…

This show just plays too much like it's putting too cute a button on 2017's perception of the issues of the '70s.

The diner scene illustrates something I see a lot in artist communities, though I'm not sure it was deliberate and therefore the commentary just isn't there. People who have chips on their shoulders about not being popular/view themselves as outsiders and "better than the normals" will nonetheless jump at the chance…

This line of thought is on my mind a lot lately because I'm part of a creative community that has gotten a small bit of national attention lately. I'm finding that the overwhelmingly positive write-ups omit key bits of info, and I can only conclude that you can't get too far into an honest description of the crowd, or…

Did Jeremy Davies really develop a somewhat unique character just for one scene? It was very Jeremy but he hasn't done that version before.

We've seen a lot of shows about entertainment flop recently. Roadies didn't make half a dent - Cameron Crow is stubbornly married to a rose-colored notion of rock and roll that is neither accurate nor interesting. In my opinion Vinyl failed because it positioned its Don Draper character as being hip to the youth…

Aggressively cute kids often transition into adulthood oddly.

Nice mansplaining moment. It somewhat addressed the ongoing issue of Monica's non-presence, though it's basically an acknowledgement that things still won't be changing in that regard.

Good luck with your fedora and Corvette.

I've never really seen anyone discuss the shift in Marnie's characterization after the season 1 finale. Marnie was unmoored and made to be more and more ridiculous to keep Allison on the show, because the season 1 version of Marnie would not have stayed friends with Hannah.