I'm still gonna keep pretending that some future project will be a hard-boiled remake of The Gunslinger, John Hillcoat-style.

Are you unfamiliar with what "acting" is? Or filmed entertainment in general?

They remind me a lot of the scene in Mulholland Drive where the guy steals the black book and shoots the cleaner. A seemingly unrelated diversion that later turns out to be tangentially related, usually used to humorous effect or just to unsettle.

Hence the "long overdue".

To be fair, Ramsay Bolton was pretty cartoonish too. These young-blooded villains are always so…theatrical. Give me an Olenna or Tywin eyebrow-arch any day.

Plot armor plus he got rezzed by the Drowned God so probably has a bit more HP than the usual grunts.

I teared up at Varys defending his credentials, it was a long overdue moment for that character.

That definitely sounds like a future scene, though.

*Brando voice* The honking…the honking…

We've been rewatching The Sopranos lately, and my partner and I both shouted "D-Girl!" when she popped up.

Mother is coming.

His creep past Mullins office was hilarious.

Knepper eating breakfast cereal = godly

I just feel blessed that we're getting an hour of these a week because each one is a genius rollercoaster of emotion. After an episode ends, I feel exhausted, mind reeling, yet wholly satisfied. Damn good.

It's a testament to Gilgun's performance that despite, on paper, being a complete twat, Cassidy is just so loveable.

She's Skylar's lawyer from Breaking Bad that advises her to leave him.

The Coop scene where he's staring at the flag was inteeeeense.

Clever episode sequencing.

Howard being a dick to Kim at the restaurant really eroded my goodwill toward Howard, however seeing him call Chuck's bluff was a terrific capper to his arc this season.

No Mike was my only complaint against the episode.