Ends the same, but the families come together in grief and then a waiter slips on a banana peel and falls face first into a lemon meringue pie.

Must be looking for more cow bell. 

Agreed. New Aemond is already more interesting than any of the other kids, and he has a screen presence few others have besides Daemon. I’ll be disappointed if he’s replaced in another time jump. (Same as just when the young Aemond was getting interesting at the end of the last episode.)

I really hate the cliché of “fat, oafish husband with unrealistically cute wife is BAD BAD BAD and completely fictional.” It’s remarkable in this day and age that this is considered okay to verbalize so openly. Oafishness/weird male entitlement/abusive behavior, yes. Those are bad traits for anyone to exhibit,…

The writers never understood what they were doing. They never took advantage of the premise in order to say something. The gimmick of the sitcom was never expanded upon, and it wouldn’t have made a huge difference to the show if it wasn’t included at all. There was a chance to say something about how media portrays…

I pretty much agree with all of this. The show really found itself in season 2 and I wish they had a little more time, but I also think that they couldn’t drag out the sitcom world too long or it would get tedious. As soon as we see Kevin in the drama world, it has to wrap up fairly quickly because it isn’t remotely th…

Please, in the theater we say The Scottish Clown.

For some reason, Daemon not aging much hasn’t bothered me (maybe because at least they’ve changed up his hair?), but Otto — who was apparently the hand of the prior king too? -- seeming like he hasn’t aged a day since we’ve known him day has bothered me. Weird.

I get that they’re going with an alcoholic state of puffiness for Aegon, and that 19-year-old Aemond is supposed to already be a formidable warrior, so they wanted to cast someone who looked like he could plausibly fight Daemon. But say what you will about the wind, and the sun, and the eyepatch, Ewan Mitchell looks…

Ironically, the tone of this article isn’t nearly snarky enough - TJ Miller talked with Adam Corolla about how shitty Ryan Reynolds is, and the headline isn’t “Second-Worst Guy From Silicon Valley Dumps on Ryan Reynolds to Second-Worst Guy From Loveline.”

After *points at last paragraph*, TJ Miller wasn’t going to be in the movie regardless. I don’t see why we should care about his potentially made up cover-feud.

New Aemond is the best part of the show.

It particularly doesn’t look right given the babyfaced guy they cast as Aegon, who looks at least 10 years younger than his younger brother.

It’s goofy, especially with how young Rhaenyra’s kids look. 

Definitely not alone. The time jumps have led to all sorts of weird age questions with the changes in casting but that is one of the more egregious. 

Am I the only one who thinks the casting for Aemond was really off? It looks like he’s in his mid-30s while everyone else has aged appropriately. Kind of reminds me of SNL sketches where they use whoever is around to fill in roles resulting in some characters looking wildly older than others for humorous effect. 

I feel like Luke really didn’t mean to slight Aemond (just reminiscing about a joke when they were younger), and if Aemond weren’t such a wormy psychopath, he could’ve been the bigger man and laughed along with him.

Breathtaking 

The best moment of the episode was definitely the “Strong boys” comment by Aemond.

Hell, I miss living in Toronto and I’ve never even been there.