The torture of Hughie is seemingly unending this season. Even though he doesn’t realize it in this episode, his character has been put through the ringer way too many times, his mind has to be shattered at this point.

Yeah, Hughie got sexually assaulted in the last episode and raped in this one. 

So wait, Hughie gets raped by deception?

Yeah the octopus suffocating so fast made no sense to me. They didn’t have to have her out of water in that earlier scene. 

Wild role for Swinton, and she managed to take a thoroughly ridiculous idea for a character, imbue it with all sorts of convincingly tragic pathos, and then have such a goddamn funny finish.

Two things that bugged me about this episode:

There’s a directors cut out there, somewhere, when the funeral cart gets stuck in the mud, the whole thing topples over, and Jahaerys’ tiny little head goes rolling down the cobblestone.

Stories like this try to portray these types of situations, as though human driven vehicles have never done the exact same thing.

It’s really absurd the extent to which people lost the ability to enjoy movies that aren’t absolute top shelf material. You know, movies that a decade or two ago we used to hear about, thinking “It’s not Oscar material or a star studed blockbuster, but seems perfectly worthy a trip to the theater, in a discounted…

Elon is one of the best humans I know.

How bad is your game when you can be the richest person on the planet and still have to beg for sex?

There goes big government again! This time they’re trying to save my house!

And then fine them for littering.

many residents still refused, in part out of a concern that new dunes would block their ocean views

The answer is stunningly simple: the greedy owners don’t want the unwashed masses close to their homes, so fine; the owners can pay for the sand themselves. Problem solved—duh.

but isn’t her career basically being really good in The Great, a show nobody actually watched, for two seasons?

Huzzah!!!

I was hoping it was just Fanning playing the same character from “The Great” and having a Predator movie set in ....well not “Victorian” Russia....but like, the equivalent.

HAVE CATHERINE THE GREAT FIGHT THE PREDATOR, YOU COWARDS.

Yeah, I’ve found them to be in the “bad but enjoyable enough” category because of Tom Hardy’s performance and the cool visuals for Venom, et al.