I am older now (obviously) than when I watched GoT - more emotional instead of more cynical, though.

Subtitles said it was Baela

Gotta say it was a great call NOT to bring back those characters that I think many of us long-timers are still pretty sick of (though it was a smart call of Target to throw an ad in last night) as I was genuinely dreading the return of most of them. The movie-reviewing Aunt was just enough.

We’re just innocent bystanders. Univision (back when it was still named Univision) buying a majority share in Onion, Inc. was the beginning of a long, slow slide into mediocrity. Univision bought up The Onion sites and the Gawker sites thinking they’d use them to make content for their short-lived English language…

Was the show better than usual? Yes. Were there ads literally popping up over each other while I tried to read this AVC recap? Also yes, and goddamn, what did we all do to deserve that?

I’m old too and grew up watching those shows or at least the one’s that made it to the other side of The Pond. My issue with that model is the gaps during September to May schedule where repeats are slotted in to pad things out.

That’s on top of the filler episodes that don’t really do anything and only seemed to have…

No thanks.

10-13 episodes is perfectly fine. That’s long enough and cuts down on the filler episodes that serve no purpose other than allow the show makers to coast until the important/more interesting episodes are made.

Also having say 13 episodes a season, should allow the network channels (BBC/ITV/Channel 4 in UK and…

It is super obvious that Bertha promised the Duke a marriage with Gladys to solve his long term money problems. I think Bertha is underestimating her daughter. I don’t think she will go quietly into that marriage to be a dollar princess. 

Despite some of the storyline stretching, the pacing of this show is one of the best I’ve seen for many a period drama (dramedy?). I’m loving this season, and hope they can keep it up.

I thought the “villain” line this week was SUPERB. Credit to Russel’s actor that we can despise his methods and also find him a…

Wasn’t Bertha determined to building her own opera house?

Why is having a lot of Spanish indicative of an “us vs. them” world? I think that’s your framing there, bud.

Having seen what the AV Club has become over the past few years, I’d have to answer, sadly, “Yes, really.”

And the “protect the children” crowd are once again the crowd that the children actually need to be protected from.

LOL I know plenty of people who haven’t moved on from 9/11, and while I don’t know for sure, I’d guess the primary reason is that we never removed or dealt with the underlying cause. Two decades, billions of dollars and thousands of soldiers’ lives later, the Taliban is still running wild in Afghanistan ruining the…

So my general experience with the major carriers (Delta, United, American, and Southwest) is that they’re all pretty much a crap shoot. If you get a good customer service rep when something gets fucked up, you’ll be golden and have a good experience. If you get a person in the throes of a terrible, horrible, no good…

100 percent. Where is my fun engaging EV? I bought a car for the first time since I was 16 and I got a coupe with a stick and a v6. Make that equivalent in the EV world and I will buy it.

Weird. Normal people don’t want to buy a $50k car with 7% interest rates, tech that’s outdated faster than a modern smartphone, a business model that’s constantly pushing microservices, and tracks all your movements with no way to opt out or find out where that information is going?

which begs the question;

This sounds crazy, but once upon a time, Comic-Con was not a movie/television trailer delivery mechanism, but a place to meet comic creators, buy comics and nerd schwag and similar stuff.

None of that is impacted by either a writers or actors strike.

It seems to be a mistake that TV Execs never stop making, thinking that people who are funny one way, are funny every way. Stewart wasn’t a very good stand up comic, but he turned into a great fit TDS because he’s a good straight man and had great talent working with him. Noah, on the other hand, is a much funnier…