LOL, y'all, they're only going to use this format if they have four strong lip syncers for the finale. They wouldn't have chosen it last year, because Kimchi, bless her, can't even walk, let alone dance, in heels. Bianca and Courtney are legendary, but not for their lipsync performances. This is only a format they'll…

Many great Drag Racers have lip synced before their time was nigh, because Ru knows the LSFYL is an opportunity to prove their skills as performers for posterity. See: Jujubee, Raja, Manila, Sharon, Dida, Latrice, Alyssa, Coco, Detox, Roxxxy, Adore, Katya, the list goes on. A lip sync is a shot at a legacy moment, and…

The rumor is that Val has a reckoning coming. According to lore, when she eventually does trip and have to lipsync, she blows it by being overconfident and not learning the words. Could be false T, though.

Puddleglum is awesome, but I hope the CGI/makeup budget can handle him. The Uncanny Valley seems like his natural habitat.

Yeah, that accident was a great set piece and hysterical inciting event for the rest of the season. I just think, agreeing with you maybe, that the season as a whole stalled emotionally, even as its plot rolled forward like clockwork. I didn't get the sense Hawley loved any of those characters with the save fervor as…

You found Peggy and the crime family emotionally resonant and not just a vaguely pleasing bouquet of caricatures, ciphers, and half-realized dreamers? Agree to disagree, I guess. Just because I understand a character's underlying motives doesn't mean he or she is inherently a well-drawn character commanding my pathos:…

I'm not sure an intertextual Easter egg hunt actually gave Season 2 substance: It had a philosophical and even historical point of view, but didn't articulate that perspective through well realized characters or a compelling narrative about the fallout of their decisions. (This is to say, based on the reviews I've…

What bothers me about this criticism is that Zack gave season 2 pretty breathless praise last year, despite the season having more cipher-like characters and a more sluggish plot than season 1. I didn't entirely MIND that season 2 operated more as an exercise in concept - the rise of corporate America, the death of…

Dany could make him or his children her heir — she can't have children, so she'll need some kind of game plan for who inherits.

Agreed, and he often held the camera perfectly still in those moments, which felt like WE had to sit still and *wait* for the fallout. I like that silence doesn't give cues about how we're supposed to feel about Cersei's revenge, or Tommen's death, and so on. The music on this show, because it's trying to make a…

Word. I don't mind that they've fiddled with the timelines for expediency, but it would be nice if they'd telegraph that things are happening in different timelines. For the story to hang together, information and people need to travel across Westeros/Essos at a predictable rate.

On #1: I've been trying to tease out the thematic weight of Arya's arc all season; for a while, I thought the Lady Crane situation was designed to pull Arya away from the nihilism of the House of Black and White—you know, where death takes everybody and it doesn't matter much who goes when. So her rejection of the…

In the books, Doran tries to imprison his daughter and the Sand Snakes so that they don't do anything crazy and then sends his son Quentyn to make good on an old alliance with Daenerys.