Where's Bronn? Bronn was last seen in King's Landing, and he is obviously destined to run into Tyene (the one surviving Sand Snake) again. Maybe he rescues her and pisses off Cersei in the process, or something. It can't be a coincidence that the one Sand Snake who survived is the one he had an affair with.

My guess is that Baelish provoked Jon intentionally, as part of some long game or other.

Yeah, any time I watch a movie that came out before 2014, I always go to Ebert's website afterwards to see if he wrote a review. I'm always curious to know what his take was. The newer reviewers on the site aren't bad, either.

Apple pie with a slice of sharp Cheddar shows up in the memoirs of James Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian. I always figured it was an English thing.

Yes, that's clear enough. I guess my criticism was directed at the (poorly-worded) summary, and not the article itself.

The article states that Bill O'Reilly— one of the host's coworkers— once "invited her to his very private place on Long Island", but fails to explain why this is pertinent to a $49 million dollar lawsuit. Is it sexual harrassment to invite a co-worker to your house? I have no affection for the showrunners at Fox, or…

This interview might just be the funniest thing I've ever read on this website.

I'm also in the Midwest, and I have a simple rule for sushi places: I ask them when they got their fish delivered. If the answer is anything besides "this morning", move on. (You'd be surprised how often the answer is something like "on Tuesdays", or "I don't know").

Escobar (as portrayed by Wagner Moura) is such a tiresome character that the show could only be improved by his absence. I mean, the guy's no Walter White. The screenwriters keep showing scene after scene of him being affectionate with his children and with his dull-as-dishwater wife… it's a transparent effort to…

Hmm. Wow. If you can get through that whole song-and-dance routine with a strange woman at a bar without imploding from self-consciousness, you're a better man than I am. Or, at least, you're a bigger goofball than I am.

OK, fair enough— I guess I do need to rewatch that episode. I still think more could have been made of this plot point. Why isn't everyone on the Black Watch eagerly waiting for news from the south? What's their reaction when they find out that the people they are defending don't seem interested in helping and have…

For me the Ygritte-needs-to-die moment happened about three eps back when she shot an unarmed farmer in front of his young child. It was an odd scene because until then, she had been presented as a basically likable person.

No, it's even worse than that. The scene you're talking about— where an army of White Walkers starts shambling south towards the Wall— was the closing shot of season TWO! I guess they walk really slowly.

If you put a garrison at the Wall to defend all of Westeros, and said garrison finds out that an army of 100,000 is heading towards them, wouldn't their first move be to alert everyone south of the Wall and send for reinforcements? If Sam discovered a way to kill White Walkers, why wouldn't he tell everyone about it?…

More like annoymidating. (I'm sorry, I know Patti Smith is widely considered a genius, I just find her to be insufferably pretentious).

He was the best thing about Hitchhiker's, I thought. I was a big fan of the semi-obscure BBC TV series (early 80s?), and I found myself wondering if he'd studied the performance of the original actor. He managed to capture the same "vibe".

The problem with the Jack/Prez conversation was that the President's "dilemma" made no sense. Even if you didn't entirely trust Jack, why wouldn't you immediately track down the Kat Stark character and search her house? Hell, just the fact that Jack mentioned her makes her a person of interest.

I was sure that's what I would hear when I clicked play!

Exactly. Mentat: "Those sounds could be imitated!" Paul: "I'd know the difference." Mentat (in voiceover): "Yes, yes I believe you would". It's a groan-worthy moment. Didn't it occur to Lynch that you knew exactly what the Mentat was thinking without the voiceover? It was all there in his facial expression.

I actually used to know the new singer— Oskar Saville! (Technically I think she was the second of two new singers after Merchant). We met in about 1998 when I was busking on a Chicago subway platform. Very nice girl, she was kind of new to music back then but her talent was self evident.