5. Although a relative fairytale compared to the Premier League, Leicester was able to be promoted because their new billionaire Thai owner allowed them to outspend their rivals in the second tier. In other words, they (and Bournemouth) first became the big fish in the small Championship pond.

It helps that the show is a Robert Downey Jr. passion project - he was originally going to star in it and he's still producing it. Keeping a good relationship with a top A-lister is good business and it's the kind of show that hopefully will help fill up the award cabinet.

And this is how I found out that THAT GUY is Todd Field.

The episode’s title is an allusion to “The Spook Who Sat By the Door”, a key text in the Black Power movement and later made into a blaxploitation film. It’s a novel about a black man who uses the skills he learns as one of the first token CIA agents to start secretly building a revolutionary movement against the…

How would such an actor gain that profile if they’re not even cast in roles that would be perfect for them?

If you’re going to be a dick about it, he was also IN THE LAST FUCKING EPISODE at Laena’s funeral giving the eulogy heavily implying the bastardy of Rhaenyra’s children with talk of “true, thick” Velaryon blood while staring daggers at them.

The great tragedy of the first season is seeing Alicent’s piety and devotion curdle into this sour and cruel hypocritical rectitude.

He was a good man but a shit king. His tendency to avoid conflict whenever possible is kind but a bad look for an absolute monarch - sometimes conflict is unavoidable and necessary. He held the peace with his own life but set things up to go terribly the second he died.

This is not the first time we see Vaemond - he’s in the battle camp on the Stepstones questioning Daemon’s leadership when Daemon gets the letter prompting his one-man attack.

I didn’t want to be the first to mention it...

This is exactly the role June Diane Raphael would have played a decade ago and the reaction is the same:

That’s what Dorne is and is established as such in both the pilot of HotD and the entire 4th season of GoT (which still fumbled a good portion of the book Dorne). It was founded by a Valyrian noblewoman (Nymeria - Arya’s idol and her dog’s namesake) who chose her own husband and led the conquest of the region. Oberyn…

Hilarious that Eternals was so mediocre that a major role in an MCU movie doesn’t even rate a mention in his career recap.

It takes place after a civil war has split the US into regional districts. The Capital is Denver with his natural defenses of mountains and elevation. District 12 (Katniss’ home, mining country) is Appalachia, the nuclear bombed-out District 13 is the rebellious Northeast where the survivors have been driven…

Because corporate disagreements should not lead to YEARS of targeted harassment and death threats. How is that even a question?

Sorry for the late reply - Skinwalkers was the first of three stories (Dark Winds was another) in the PBS Mystery adaptation with Studi and Beach.

Worth noting this is the 2nd TV adaptation of the Leaphorn/Chee stories - there was a 3 episode run on PBS Mystery almost 20 years ago starring legend Wes Studi as Leaphorn and Adam Beach as Chee. There's also a 30 year-old movie of Dark Winds with Fred Ward and Lou Diamond Phillips.