I suspect they didn’t want to risk any backlash from Tiggy Legge-Bourke. Isn’t she still in litigation with the BBC?

“Tiggy Legge-Bourke”?

Ice cold.

Ugh. These people are done and it’s about time.

I doubt Margaret ever lost her cool over Townsend to Elizabeth. In real life, Elizabeth was very supportive of their relationship. It wasn’t her choice to have them separated.

I immediately thought of Vera Drake but, yes! Umbridge was so finely tuned that Staunton will be stuck with her forever. In fact, seeing that Umbridge had so much evil-ass power, she could do a hell of a lot more damage than a mere Queen.

First of all, they’re not fictional characters.

Weird historical coincidence: the wealthy young woman Mou Mou marries is from the Khashoggi family, the aunt of the yet-to-be-born Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince MBS. Dodi was Jamal Khashoggi’s first cousin.

I completely forgot that there’s another season coming, thanks.

The episode is fascinating but it doesn’t really work in the over-all series. In fact, I’d be happy to see a series (or movie) following the Fayeds. At best, it’s preparing us for the horrible outcome of Dodi and Diana’s deaths. But will the series explore Fayed’s search for the ‘truth’ about the car accident? This is…

I used to think “money can’t buy you happiness” was nonsense to keep poor people in their station, but Elon Musk has so much money and spends all his time arguing with people online and desperately seeking validation that he’s cool. He’s truly miserable.

I don’t care how much you dislike an artist’s contributions, that’s a fucked up thing to say.

For every series HBO has killed prior to a planned conclusion, they’ve greenlit several more seasons of expensive shows whose low ratings didn’t really justify the order, provided they were generating awards and buzz. HBO basically invented the planned series finale. Network shows used to just run until they were…

Haven’t seen 4 (maybe won’t), but the whole cast dying? Not the characters? Boy, HBO really is messed up post-merger.

The positives lasted only until season 1 was done.  Season 2 was messy messy messy and season 3 was pretty much fuck this nonsense. 

Getting very mad at something nobody said she had to do and then dedicating her following years to make trans folks lives hell sure makes her a good person yup.

“the emperor of something stupid”

The complaint about the show’s graphic depiction of labor is strange. House of the Dragon, like Game of Thrones, is a show where a lot of violent things happen. Unlike Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is to a significant extent a show about women. The central conflict on the show is between two women, with a third…

sometimes the other content is even better than the actual content.

“House Of The Dragon seems to have wildly varying ideas of what a 14-year-old looks like.”