I even fast forward through the acts I love. The mix is always terrible not matter who it is.

Last night I was thinking how useless Claude is to the story, but she's playing the heck out of it. I'm buying her as a frustrating person who can feel how unlikeable she is and is pained by it. So there's that over the actor playing Conde, who is hotter than the sun, but I can only tell his character's motivations…

Do you remember the Law-Giver's verdict on Rollo? "He behaved in an interesting and unexpected way." Sometimes they speak in an awkwardly open manner. "If you accept these conditions, we may enjoy each other," or whatever Lagertha says.

It's not about Christianity vs paganism. This goes back to season 1 and Earl Haraldson where the conflict was between a slavish devotion to the old ways which prevented them from crossing the sea to go to England. Athelstan's value (beyond friendship) was his knowledge of lands they did not understand. He had been…

I kind of get what you're saying, but last week the show did everything but put up a flashing neon sign that said "Floki's plan will fail!" It was so telegraphed that I didn't even comment on it last week. Why would he not know this? He spent hours with Athelstan gathering intelligence on the city, so while he might…

Was I the only one to think that the chef was based off of Dan Eaton from Time Warner Cable? https://www.facebook.com/vi…

Isn't some of his attraction to her a longing for his old life? If she were more like a Viking or like crazy Princess, she wouldn't, uh, scratch his particular itches.

Well, this season all the fighting they've done has basically been as mercenaries. When it's business (and you might want to live on the land later) you're going to behave one kind of way. If I were you, I'd wait and see how they're depicted in Paris, when they're back in pillaging mode.

We're all agreed that Ragnar invited Kalf only because he needs a dead man to conquer Paris, right? "My friend, I have had this red tunic made for you."

Agreed. For the characters, this isn't supernatural bullshit, it's part of the concrete way in which they experience their world. The sky is gray, the land is brown, and the gods are physically real. I'm willing to believe that there's a series of perfectly explainable phenomena happening but that they perceive them…

Ah, the School Daze factor.

Sure. Cookie + production values is a plausible argument.

You agree that it's not thanks to any one thing, thanks. I'll forgive the use of the word "silly."

You stated it better than I did, thanks!

I don't know Bill Cosby, either. Google Terrence Howard and domestic abuse. There have been enough accusations to qualify as smoke, and where there's smoke…

She knew who he was. She was trying to take shots at the guy in the wheelchair without seeming to, though I don't think she knew he had ALS.

I don't like Lucious (or Terrence Howard, if we're being honest), but this made sense. Anika's father can put him in jail (or whatever happens when you violate SEC rules) and scuttle his IPO. There is no room to play. He had to shut it down.

I'd think they'd hate each other even if there were no Lucious at all. Cookie barges into situations and is talented without any education. She's going to value Anika less because she values natural innate talent. Anika is going to look at Cookie as an interloper who lacks the kind of credentials she values (e.g. top…

I found this review to be very insightful. Not into Empire, but the mind of an internet recapper. Just as there seems to be a kind of movie that Oscar voters just like — they could actually be mediocre movies but with the right kind of plot and speeches — there is a kind of show that recappers like. And Empire doesn't…

I'm sure you don't mean it this way, but the question reads as if they're interchangeable sassy black girls, when they are very different characters. Becky may have the blond dye job or whatever, but is a bit more … you know. Higher socioeconomic level. I imagine she majored in either media or business and came into…