Ummm, I'm sincerely not sure we're talking about the same performance, if you don't think she has any other expression than "displeasure."

It's one of the things that makes her scenes with Don so powerful, since Jon Hamm is excellent at that too. It's like they're having a second conversation underneath their actual conversation, which is very true to life. Can't believe she's only 14!

If you're masturbating gloomily, I think you're doing it wrong.

Twist: Pete Campbell was dead the whole time!

Yale or GTFO!

I don't know if you really have to put a spoiler warning about Season 3 when you're posting on a Season 7 episode.

But that's not the argument that Dog made, at least to my knowledge. I don't hate the premise of Salem because it's historically inaccurate; on its face it's historically inaccurate, just like Inglourious Basterds. No, I hate the premise of Salem because it blames the victims of a really horrifying tragedy for causing…

I don't think "done well" and "done poorly" are qualities that can be entirely divorced from how a piece of art treats the subject matter it presents, though.

I think there's something to be said for the fact that even though she rarely says what she's feeling as directly as she does this episode, nothing she says comes as a surprise, per se, because it's so easy to read on Kiernan Shipka's face. And that alone is a quality of good acting, I'd say; I always know how Sally…

I dunno, I still think Jaime is pretty clearly forcing himself on Cersei, and the sex on the screen really doesn't read as consensual, especially with the cut off after Jaime says "I don't care." I truly don't see how someone could read the scene as presented as consensual sex. On first watch, I was actively looking…

Caligula apparently fucked his sisters and prostituted them out to other men. Man, I sort of miss the time when historians could just make up random, insanely inaccurate libel about historical figures.

I'm sad that this will not get nearly the amount of upvotes it deserves.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you have to watch the episode twice to see the ambiguity, that's a pretty big fuck up.

Oh, I completely agree in the context of the show, especially since the Targaryen thing seems to be at least somewhat based on real, historical examples of royalty marrying siblings.

As I understand it, having children with a first cousin increases your chance of birth defect from 2% to 4%. Somehow, everytime I've heard someone present this fact, they focus on how 4% isn't that high, as opposed to, you know, it doubling the chance of a birth defect.

Not to mention a simple comparison of the acts portrayed shows how fucked up this all is. Ellaria has an attractive woman eating her out. Oberyn is WEARING PANTS and staring deeply into a gay prostitute's eyes.

And even there, wasn't that more of a royalty/blood lines thing than a common man accepting incest thing? Incest grosses us out for biological reasons (e.g. the Westermarck Effect), which is a major reason why it's such a common cultural taboo.

Especially if, as the director insists, they don't think they filmed a rape scene.

It was a pretty big fuck up, too, because it didn't even remotely read like consensual sex. And the scene in the books has Cersei coming on to Jaime, whereas the scene in the show he is clearly forcing himself on her. I honestly don't see how other people don't see that; Cersei never even pretends that she's into it.

Hahaha, they left before the twist in Certified Copy!