Sad not to see Person of Interest on this list. I made a playlist from that that I still listen to.

Trying to piss off the Gen X’ers by not including The Americans?

“upped security in the citadel”

“Did you hurt yourself,” the tentativeness, the hurt - both in anger (how could you think about doing that) and in empathy (how could the world, that I’m part of, treat you that way to where you’d think about doing that), all of it...as someone who works in the suicide prevention field, that moment felt VERY earnest…

The events of The Vampire Lestat (that they haven’t shown yet) and the entirety of The Queen of the Damned, is going to set you TV on fire. It’s really the peek of the entire book series. Amazing characterization, so many vampires, history, and action packed scenes. 

want her to secrete herself away somewhere

“Also, wood is famously flammable, so why in seven hells didn’t Baela just blast some dragon fire after them?”

My guess is S3 is tweaked a bit where Lestat begins the tour and outs himself on purpose to deflect attention from Louis, and Louis is with him to some capacity during the tour and the entire business with Akasha. We might also get a subplot with Daniel/Armand. 

Has there been (simulated) fellatio on an erect penis (very erect) on prestige TV before? I cannot remember anything so graphic.

It was definitely Armand. He didn’t “harm” Daniel, but rather “burdened” him, as Louis says.

Knowing that Lestat is coming back in season three (which will be adapted from the vamp’s rock-and-roll days in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat as well as Rice’s The Queen Of The Damned), that might mean we may not immediately get answers as to what happens with Armand and Louis, but honestly, the thought of a…

Decades of mature television (including HBO) have managed to find ways to depict fellatio without actually showing it. This week, we got literal pornographic imagery. We’ve come along way... 

I’m most excited to see if the show is going to stick to the book’s conceit that all the Tullys of this era have the names of Muppets. Lord Grover’s been mentioned several times, but his grandson Elmo and great-grandsons Kermit and Oscar may be pushing things on a TV show in a way that the book could just barely get…

I think he’s trying to drive a wedge between Aegon and Alicent. It wasn’t about the actual result of it - it was about making Aegon think that Aemond and Alicent wanted him out of the way, which I read as the reason for Aegon’s later humiliation of Aemond.

This episode underscores the issues of Alicent’s age change and making her Rhaenyra’s former friend - I understand wanting this to be a conflict between women, but the true conflict (right now) is between Rhaenyra and Aegon, and through that lens, it looks like Rhaenyra is a better person but doesn’t have a handle on…

I think he just made up that rumor to get himself a job on the council / make himself seem useful to the king.

Please don’t let that be the last scene between Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke. Please.

the Brackens and Blackfoots were so easily goaded into annihilating one another, weren’t they?

Guys! I got the autoplaying video here to stop!

I’m still reeling from episode 7. Not sure I’ll recover in time for the Louis-Lestat reunion.