I haven’t been able to keep up with the show enough to really comment this season (Riverdale has been taking the bulk of my emotional energy on Wednesdays) but I said out loud twice, TWICE!, “I love this show” while watching this episode. It’s really one of the more lovable cast of characters ever assembled, while…

Guys, the dragon melting the throne because it was the true villain all along...guys. THE DRAGON. Where was this pithy advice yesterday, Drogon? Just another useless advisor, letting your girl twist in the wind, I guess.

What I think has been lost in all this about Dany’s house style is that on paper it is 100% fucked up but in practice, if you give people the chance to betray you, they will. This has been shown again and again, over and over. She had been the character most walking that line between the Stark’s strategy of declaring…

Looking back, the common threads of all the major arcs in this episode were family. Jamie and Tyrion both choose Cersei and each other. The Hound settles his family business. Jon fucks up by siding “against the family” and Dany only truly becomes a monster when she loses the found family she made and decides to take…

I think this ending would have played better for me if it happened three seasons ago. Instead, it feels like the characters have all been put through the ringer just to all wind up where they started.

Ew, David.

I’m feeling that way about the whole show. Very few characters in the end grew out of what they were “destined” to be. Even the Cleganebowl didn’t really have much weight to it. The Mountain was surely going to die anyway, and was really already dead. He wasn’t standing in the way of a particular objective. They…

I think what disappoints me about it is for a story that always reveled in defying expectations “Mad Queen is Mad” is not very interesting. And I think they really ramped shit up in a really unsatisfying way. Like all of the characters seemed absolutely determined to push her off the deep end. "You mad yet? How about…

I think there is for sure some double standards with these behaviors but she pretty much booo’d the news of her own show getting renewed in real time. And then insulted the intelligence of everyone who called her on it. I can’t imagine there’s a lot of actors at any level in their career who could pull that without…

I know about the Greystoke thing and it blows my mind. How do you get through the entire production without considering a recast, an accent coach or just rolling with it? How do you cast Christopher Lambert and then decide MacDowell’s accent is the problem? You’re right, I take back anything negative I’ve said about…

Is it really in doubt in some circles that “Is it still raining?” is a joke? Andie MacDowell is one of those actors that irrationally irritates me, I think because my mind morphs her into Julia Louis-Dreyfus and then I’m disappointed. But come on.

It is hard to imagine how Kevin comes back from this as a character. There’s that weird phase you went through your junior year and then there’s being down a kidney, cult-married and selling your classmates out to an organ harvester. It does feel like a waste of Casey Cott, I always like him even when his character is…

What is ticking me off is her own advisers are sabotaging her by essentially shrugging and being like, “Broads, am I right?” in front of everyone at meetings, when she has proven she can be reasoned with in the right circumstance. She is hard pressed to relent in front of others as her authority and competence is…

When I thought Rhaegal went down fighting the ice dragon, I was like, “Man, that stinks.” But for whatever reason, seeing him killed this week really, really got me. Probably because it was for no reason. And he looked so happy. This fucking show.

“You can’t deny Jon is a better leader”

When we’re talking about work and wages, we are talking about the economy. When you say you would balk at an imposed 4 hour work day, that you want to work as much as you want, and you want to be paid for it, you are basically talking about capitalism. And that is not a bad thing! Capitalism (and socialism) have been…

Stay with me on this a sec...the other day, I actually googled the difference between communism and socialism because I know it will be a constant talking point in the upcoming elections and I wanted to make sure I understood it as well as I thought I did. And instead it was the following statements on capitalism that…

Or even Cap’s scene in the support group. It’s remarkable that this big budget superhero film really has no “action” for the vast majority of it. There’s hi-jinx but really no big stunt set pieces until the very end. That’s really kind of crazy, that they can do that. And we’re still interested.

We have chosen not to have kids and at this point we hold the majority decision in our peer group. I don’t feel guilty or selfish about my decision but I do feel sad. It’s just sad that so many of us are looking at the road ahead and have determined that it seems like willfully signing up for misery. And being…

I was expecting to be bawling throughout this movie as the headline of all the reviews (I didn’t read) was TEARS TEARS TEARS but the only time actual water leaked out of my eye was with Thor’s scene with his mom. “We all fail at what we’re supposed to be...” was just A+ mom-ing and took me totally by surprise. It…