I’m also with the internet theory that Young Griff is a Blackfyre, a product of Ilyrio’s marriage to a Blackfyre woman (explains the Golden Company support). Wasn’t he raised to be a just and good King since he was little? That might be enough for Varys, he just wants a decent ruler. But who knows?

The one good thing about the show ending for me is that it makes me feel like the 100s of pages of JohnCon, (f)Aegon and Dorne plotting weren’t a waste of time. The TV show ending makes SO much more sense with them involved, Dorne, The Golden Company and Varys all make more sense as (f)Aegon supporters. Another…

It was pointed out on Jenny Trout’s reviews that Trevelyan is also the name of a place with mines in Cornwall, could be another Poldark reference.

My husband and I watched The Favourite the other night and I was trying to explain to him who Nicholas Hoult is and the best I could do was explain that I knew him as a heel character from an awesome teen show with Gilly and Gendry and now that I think of it, why isn’t he on Game of Thrones? Question answered!

You are spot on about Dany. It’s so much easier to root for her and Drogo in the end, when their relationship didn’t start with a brutal rape. Infuriating that the showrunners couldn’t get that.

Love the actress but the show’s depiction of the character Missandei is weird and I find her super uncomfortable to watch. In the books, she’s an actual child (like 10 years old) so it makes sense that she sees Dany as a mother figure and relies on her and tries to please her so much. I am soooo uncomfortable with her…

Decided to come back to say: you get really unnecessarily aggressive in disagreements, call people names and then “dismiss” any replies that provide evidence/arguments that counter your points. Out of curiosity I checked and yes, you can see this behavior across your comment history. Like, you acted like this in…

1. Ahhh, so you’re the “I’m doing fine therefore racism doesn’t exist” type of Blackfolk. Awesome, great to know who I’m currently wasting time on.

Haha, I’m not in the habit of proving the existence of racism to white people on the internet but it is you who does not understand the long Black freedom struggle, my friend. Our struggle has not taken exactly the same form over the centuries, but it is the same struggle in essence. This is well understood within the…

“Such handicaps and issues don’t exist in today’s world at all.”

Great write up! Oh man, I did not enjoy reading this book but I MUST watch this! Richard Wright had important things to say but he’s so relentlessly cynical, his grotesque imagery and brutality are too much for me (I vaguely remember one particular short story that starts with a dead baby floating in a sewer and…

This has been the case for a while. I was teaching high school economics like 5 years ago and we were talking about marketing and I asked students how they make fashion choices. They all said instagram. Every single one. Honorary mention: tumblr and pinterest. I mentioned that women’s fashion magazines were big when I…

Imaginary best friend in your head, I assume. I had a friend who was homeschooled who was obsessed with The Hills back in the day and loved Lauren Conrad. When she told me that, I said “yeah that makes sense, she’s a good imaginary friend figure” and my friend gasped and had a little reaction, she said me she’d never…

It was a tentpole, a tentpole!

I’m in for this as long as Jared Harris calls Jared Leto a “grimy little pimp” and then bare knuckle boxes him for max audience catharsis. It’s a winning formula!

This was a really excellent write up! I was also looking forward to this show but I definitely cannot give views to a historical slave master/slave romance story. So gross! Also gross: the fact that the vast majority of comments responding to this piece are just objections to use of the term Latinx. God, the AV Club…

This reminds me of the “Richard Spencer, dapper Nazi” narrative. Ugh. 

Yes. That movie made me hate Paul Rudd and I love Paul Rudd. But after slogging through that dire film, I’d see him on billboards and get mad about my lost time and all that misogynistic crap. How do you make Professional Beautiful Man Alexander Skarsgard unwatchable? How do you make Professionally Affable Paul Rudd…

I do really miss AVClub reviews of little, interesting shows. That’s how I found a lot of great stuff! Definitely seems like the review section chases more mainstream stuff now, or like whatever is on CW. Agreed that the interesting stuff seems to have been gutted. 

I feel like Miley’s voice sounds obnoxiously warbley, like she’s doing her best Dolly Parton in Jollene. The tempo reminds me of KT Tunstall like a decade ago. I honestly expected better for a Mark Ronson jam. But I also haven’t forgiven her for the way she dropped her Black aesthetics and said ignorant stuff about…