I can't wait for the episode where Elizabeth has to infiltrate the White House in order to plant poison jelly beans for the Gipper.

If I remember correctly, Oliver and Cenac even shared an office while at TDS. Pretty cool if they could swing a reunion.

That KILLED me.

Adding to that, I read that the head of HBO programming would be interested in extending the show to an hour if it catches on and Oliver would be interested in that. It might be too much for him to get correspondents of his own, but long term this show can go anywhere.

Yeah, there's an episode of Ancient Aliens about this. It was pretty fucking stupid, but that should go without saying.

It gets a whole lot worse than that scene. The second half of the series has some of the bloodiest and goriest battles shown on television, not to mention the psychological horror of what happens to the protagonists over time.

Yeah, not to be too morbid, but they could have just added a sound effect of him breaking her neck.

Lucia will definitely be missed. Like Gregory before her, she showed that there were other angles to the Cold War besides the US vs. USSR, but a fight between ideologies that entangled people in just about every country in the world. And how belief in an ideology is often driven by personal reasons.

Nice to know Bane and Spud from Trainspotting make such an effective team.

Black Hawk Down too, though I guess ensemble war movies in general are good for this.

From what I remember reading, they were mostly status symbols for the officers. They weren't really practical as they tended to jam easily.

What else were they expecting with that level of anti-aircraft fire though? The pilots probably did the best they could all things considered.

Yeah, the world really is in need of a ginger hero. No sarcasm.

Judging from visits to the GoT wiki, I've always assumed Valyria was the Rome equivalent, while Ghis is roughly equivalent to Carthage.

Yarp.

After watching a season and a half of Hannibal, I've gotten used to a better class of cannibalism, and these guys were just amateurs.

Goddamnit someone's chopping onions again.

Also, outside of this episode BoB takes place pretty much in a year, while The Pacific takes place from right after Pearl Harbor to a year after the war was over. The latter definitely had a more epic sweep, which is saying something.

Everything from the moment Speirs took charge was gold.

In Black Hawk Down they have character names on helmets to help the audience distinguish them apart, even though in real life they don't have those. Or at least the special ops don't.