Now I wish, more than anything else, that they'd gotten the actor who plays Roose Bolton to play the lead KGB guy in Gaad's hotel room, and that he'd said exactly that.

Dental plan!

They should have sent his former secretary to recruit him. Instead of just breaking in, she could have knocked and said: Are you there, Gaad? It's me, Martha.

Yeah, that's a common one: medical people say that, contrary to what tv teaches us if you're hit on the head hard enough to be knocked it, it is VERY serious. As for my ordeal, yeah, it was pretty crazy. And I do NOT recommend losing the use of both arms for several months. Caregivers and home nursing visits are…

This is why The Americans can't have nice things.

I thought maybe Leigh meant "callowness," but got autocorrected into "callousness."

My pet peeve in this regard is people falling down stairs on tv. They are usually fine, or at worst (particularly on soaps), pregnant women who fall down stairs will miscarry. I fell down a flight of stairs some years ago. It did a shit-ton of damage to me, including cracking my head open, dislocating both arms, and…

A man, a plan, a zombie-filled canal.

Funny. That "Do we like her?" moment felt the most real to me, like I could actually believe them as a years-long married couple. But YMMV.

Really though, they should have found some way to explain that within the context of the actual show itself. Instead of having Alicia watch some old lame b&w Hollywood film, how about her finding a book on the cult of Santa Muerte and explaining it to Nick or Chris?

They all fought the parishioner zombies, Madison went down under a particularly large one, and Chris was the only one who saw it. For a split second he started towards her (to help with the zombie), then hesitated, stopped…and watched. Alicia finished up with the zombie she'd been killing (behind both Madison's and…

I assumed the braziers were burning something liquid (oil, or something less viscous, more like kerosene) and when she tipped them, the flammable liquid ran down the raised 'stage' and across towards the Dothraki, bringing the fire with them. The way the fire 'ran' so quickly looked exactly like what would happen with…

Just a flesh wound!

I don't think Ned was Howland Reed's lord at that point. Wasn't it at the very end of the rebellion, right before Jaime kingslayed Aerys, that Rickard and Brandon Stark were killed in the throne room?

It doesn't look like glass. It's described as being "as pale as milkglass."

Bran Bran Bran Bran
Bran Bran Bran Bran
Lovely Bran, wonderful Bran!

Meinertzhagen was a British military officer.

That's fair. I'll withdraw my objection.

I'm more concerned with Elizabeth's necklace among Martha's possessions. I was worried when Stan came in looking for beer and sympathy that he'd spot a framed portrait on the mantle or something, with Eliz. wearing that thing!

I don't think the distance has changed in the intervening 33 years. :-)