And it's also a fact that Alfred the Great (that's who little Alfred is supposed to be) went on pilgrimage to Rome when he was very young.

Well, I knew Barbara wasn't really dead, but I hoped. This show is worse than soap operas and The Walking Dead - they always come back.

Looks like I'm going to have to read the books. On the list!

I often tell people that I'm better in print. It's so much easier to keep your thoughts straight that way. :)

The bath scene was one of the most erotic scenes I've seen on TV. Dirty is the last word I'd use for it.

She said she was just a couple of months. We don't count the hiatus.

My first thought was piece of the true cross, which was awesome in one way but problematic in another, since it skews the show toward a particularly Christian mythos - maybe it's a splinter from the true Bo tree? Or Yggdrasil?

Apparently our Rollo is a stand-in for the historical Rollo who was given Normandy by the French king Charles the Simple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… - so he won't be defending Paris for long. Or perhaps he does throughout this series and then is rewarded with Normandy (named because it was settled by Northmen).

I'm an old white lady who was a teenager during the 50's, and there's a reason that era is a go-to for horror shows. We didn't get a liberated woman role model until 1961 and Mary Tyler Moore in the Dick Van Dyke show - and there was a big fuss because sometimes she wore slacks. The most prominent black person on our…

I suspect that as well, but I can't figure out what the motivation would be unless it was to bring down a governor. But maybe it is all about The Good Wife after all.

It seems I remember that old case v. Locke. Alicia defended? Got him off? Is this the end of Peter? Alicia and Lucca and Jason and Cary start their own firm? The boys at the listening post get their own series? So many questions. So little time.

Maggie thinks she has to go because the necessity for the raid came out of her confrontation with whatsisname. Still …

He's currently banging the Good Wife, but he'll turn bad when Alicia dumps him.

I knew that campaign manager was up to no good. I just knew it.

I'm not really complaining, but so many scenes looked lifted straight from Peter Jackson's LOTR - hiding under the root of a tree from the patrol, the ranks of demons, the shield wall of the elves. Probably couldn't be helped - similar stories demand similar scenes, I suppose.

That this show has low ratings is a travesty that almost matches the Repubican presidential front-runner. One is poplar, the other is not? We are doomed.

Bleak is beautiful!

Ok, ok. I'll watch it again if it comes back around. Always have to know how the story goes. BUT - please, please cut it out with embracing the conspiracy theories of the antivaxxers. I can just see living rooms full of people looking knowingly at each other and saying, "See? I told you so. The truth is out there."

@avclub-7908fdeb815a9456c2613f3bc84de1e4:disqus - I think you're quite right about the crossbows. If you read Bernard Cornwell, you discover that crossbows take a bit of training and, especially at this stage of their technology, do not reload very fast. Which was why English longbowmen were able to take them down at…

Lovely episode. I figured the zombies were a little sparse because the herd had headed to South Carolina to vote for Trump, and they're still shambling back home.