Jopson became my new boyfriend after that marvellous scene where he groomed Crozier in the depths of his DTs while describing his mother’s addiction to laudanum. That sensitive spirit and those beautiful eyes!

Despite barely knowing Jopson, I legit clapped when he got promoted. Akin to Band of Brothers, the show and its actors have done a commendable job of making me care about characters with even little screen time.

I agree. P&E are patriots. They’re spies. Paige was born here. She’s a straight-up traitor.

No, I believe the “revisionist” criticism comes when Americans blithely and rather ridiculously claim to have “defeated the Nazis.” Sure, the allies liberated France, but they most certainly did not “defeat the Nazis.” Now, Japan is another matter entirely.

Only on the Americans have I shed a tear while watching a father put his daughter in a choke hold... and I wasn’t sad. I was proud of his parenting.

Who else knew he was going to seduce Kimmy as soon as she said she wouldn’t have time for him in Greece?

The term “revisionist history” is usually used in a negative way to imply that someone is reinterpreting/falsifying historical fact to meet their own agenda. Please tell me how that applies to the FACT quoted in this episode that 400,000 American soldiers died in WWII, versus many, many more (11 million is the…

I wouldn’t know. As soon as he leaned in for that kiss, I screwed my eyes shut and put my hands over my ears like a six-year-old.

Some observations: Elizabeth was definitely working Philip when they finally got together again—meaning intimately. She had fixed herself up in a slinky dress—no grandpa sweater this time—and it was right after she told Claudia that waiting for Christmas to get intelligence from the Kimmy project was unacceptable.…

Fantastic episode, but I have no word to express how much I hate Paige, already before she was aware who her parents are, and now, she is just evil, even more than her mother that has real reasons to be as she is. Paige has none. Of course Elisabeth must die, and horribly.

That’s what the artist story is for: to see if Elizabeth can be redeemed. The painter had a good line about seeing and time which I wish I could remember, as it basically summed up Elizabeth Jenning’s blindness to the good she has in her life—her husband and daughter—when she can only see the ideology she’s been…

The crew manifests still exist, and one Harry D. S. Goodsir is listed as the Assistant Surgeon on the Erebus.

I’d suggest punishing him as a boy, but these days I think that just means a few days without the X Box.

I WANT to love historical fiction but so often movies and shows get it wrong, they aren’t doing “honest” historical fiction. If that may sound a bit contradictory, let me use an example. Consider racism as it existed in the Jim Crow south. Very few works of historical fiction get this right. They usually cast it as…

You attack the reviewer, accuse someone of trolling, and then claim that the arguments defending the show are weak, all why failing to actually provide any reasons as to why the show is apparently so unsuccessful.

A TORY! I knew it all along! Fetch me my blunderbuss before this rapscallion tries to tax my tea!

“No one can convince me optimism or confidence are warm enough”

Lady Jane proves here to be the true politician of the Franklin family — a born operator who treats her nominally social role, a captain’s wife, like a career in the diplomatic corps.

Is there a better named character on t.v. now then Dr. Goodsir.

I agree. I don’t see Phillip as really ideologically driven one way or the other. His moral compass seems to focus on the micro level of caring about his family and just trying to do the right thing in his personal life, rather than the macro of supporting a super power that he thinks will make the whole world a…