I loved when Bill giggles in pure joy at the taste of the strawberry.

I absolutely love the games and am adoring the show so far, but man, this episode just destroyed me. Complete and frankly welcome departure from the game, where the only takeaway from Bill and Frank’s relationship is anger and bitterness, whereas this was... beautiful. Melancholy, sad, wonderful. Cried some ugly tears.

Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight sure gets played a lot but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t get me almost every time.

I legit cried for almost the whole 10 minute sequence on the last day. Murray Bartlett was great, but Nick Offerman’s acting just wrecked me. And totally didn’t expect Bill to die too, since he was still alive in the game. It was such a beautiful story. Could have easily worked as a standalone short film.

The saving grace of this episode is this is the first one so far where I wasn’t suffering from rampant tachycardia for 60 min. Loved a little respite with these two charming actors; Nick’s soulful eyes and Murray’s smile...  Nice to know there are a few cases of Napa Valley Beauj out there to be had even with a fungal…

I also thought that was her incredibly metal way of delivering at the time, but alas no.

Podrick clearly did.

When Rhaenyra proposes to Daemon, she tells him that she “cannot face the Greens alone.” You’d be forgiven for not knowing what that means, because like so much other plot-pivotal knowledge, the show hasn’t told us about it.

Bold choice for them to kill off all those characters. I mean, I assume that’s what happened, since Galadriel (and everyone else there, including Halbrand, Arondir, Miriel, Theo, Isildur, Elendil, etc.) all got enveloped in a pyroclastic cloud, which is basically an 1,800 °F death cloud that would vaporize any organic…

I think it’s best to view the events as happening non-synchronously until characters actually meet (like in this episode) or are viewing an event happening at roughly the same time (the comet). The Harfoot’s travels seen last episode looked like a very long journey, so it feels like the different storylines are…

Buddy Ryan has the best quote about losers;

this is a common interpretation but i think it’s not a totally fair one. magnus has lost before and has never been like this before, ever. only in this one case has he ever been like this... and the opponent in question is indeed a known cheater. the idea that magnus just can’t handle losing doesn’t really add up at…

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Unlike me. I’m a great loser. I lose even when people think “there’s no way for this guy to lose in this situation”.

Given that we have another fantasy series with rape/incest vibes at the moment, I’m happy enough that they leave that aspect out of this one.

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Samantha Morton is an achingly good, heart-rendingly truthful actor.  I have never felt as though she wasn't reaching deep into herself to deliver authentic work, regardless of the part or the film.

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