“Off the rails” is basically House of Cards’ tagline at this point.

Yeah, I find that the game gets a little slow and dull towards the end if you’re going for a peaceful victory. I always start to think “I could sit here and click “next turn” for 30 more turns while my science/diplomacy/culture develops, or I could just curbstomp all my rivals and command a massive army.”

Dunno how much this really counts, but back in its heyday, I never raided in World of Warcraft. I would just make alt after alt and go to max level. I really enjoyed getting into every class, trying out all the different races, picking different zones to level up in, and just generally exploring the world. Once you…

Smart move. Showtime dragging this show out into 9 seasons will make it feel very similar to the experience of waiting for the books.

The problem with TWD is, and just about always has been, that it’s better doing anything besides dialogue. Negan is super reliant on lots of talk and big speeches. If the show had better writing (and probably casting/acting), that could work, but it doesn’t.

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Throw in a brick with that and I’ll give you Go Fish: The Motion Picture.

Man I sure am proud that Alex Jones is my high school’s most famous alumnus.

It took me two tries to get into both Deadwood and The Wire - they were both just so different from things I had seen before that I was kind of nonplussed.

I’m a purist. I judge any pizza place by its straight-up pepperoni. If you can’t do that well, you’re not worth my time. Sometimes fancier stuff is OK but usually I stick to the old standard.

Thank you for sharing my peculiar love for TV title sequences and preemptively mourning their loss as I have. I was starting to think I was the only one that has such endearment for them. They really help orient you in the world of the show and get in the correct headspace; at least they do for me. I watch them every…

This was a brutally real punch in the gut, like all the great BoJack Horseman episodes. It’s been beaten to death here and elsewhere, but this show truly is the best exploration/depiction of depression that I’ve ever seen. I continue to be unsure of how much appeal the show holds for people that have never been…

In all fairness, The Americans did have a bit of down season by its standards - at least in my opinion, though I’ve seen that echoed widely. Obviously it should be in over schlock like House of Cards, but when it had such a hard time getting nominated for anything in the first place, it’s sensible that it might take a…

Carrie Coon vs. Elisabeth Moss would be an all-time great Best Actress in a Drama race. And we were ROBBED!

All true. I have been various levels of uncertain/bored/annoyed with how the show has handled the somewhat peripheral narratives like Dorne and the Greyjoys, and think that one or both could have been basically entirely excised with no real loss. With that extra time, they could have fleshed out the development of…

All unfortunately probably true. I just wish this show made better use of its considerable resources. The depth of the cast is their biggest asset, especially with characters now able to realistically converge on a meaningful level whenever you want! Hell, I'd rather have a scene of poorly written Euron negotiating…

*shakes fist*

Anyone else a little weirded out by how the show apparently retconned out all the Grejoys this episode? I mean, it's hardly unusual for this show to ignore certain plotlines for an episode or longer, but it does feel odd to have none of them even mentioned, especially relating to Cersei - as best I can tell, Euron's…

Should have spared Olly while he had the chance.

In the same sense that Arya, Bran, and Sansa are Tullys, sure.