But but if we don’t have a white woman to endlessly judge, than how can we illustrate our progressive street cred?

Based on the preview for the season after the episode, we know that both Daphne and Aubrey Plaza’s husbands get up to hijinks with the local hookers. I wouldn’t rule out that both women actually form a weird bond while on vacation and then orchestrate their husbands’ demises. After all, AP is a lawyer specializing in…

I mean, they weren’t even anticipating starting filming until next year and with CGI, post, etc it isn’t exactly a stretch to assume a 2024 drop of Season 2. This isn’t exactly news, but congratulations on framing it extra clickbaity.

Folks are also missing that rent increases and some of the utility increases are also partially due to the part where landlords couldn’t evict nonpaying tenants for nearly a year. For a multimillionaire with 20 properties they own outright? Not a big deal. For your average landlord that is paying a mortgage plus…

Just like subverting expectations, you seem to possess certain difficulties with what constitutes a “hot take.” Even at the time, reviewers (and the dearly departed commentariat of this very site) praised the worldbuilding while regarding the performances as good, but not great. And again, nearly all of them had…

Geternally, I loved the first season, but I do think that part of where it suffered was that the writers REALLY expected the viewers to have at minimum watched GOT and remembered/ internalized those social mores. Granted, GOT spent more time on the concept of Guest Right and kingslaying than kinslaying- Ramsay Bolton…

The only two dragons that fought the Triarchy were Caraxes and Seasmoke. Caraxes (Daemon) is obviously spoken for, but Seasmoke presents as a problem because Laenor is still alive and no dragon ever had more than one rider at a given time. They could be trained to saddle two or more (as Rhaenrya tells Alicent in the…

The first season of GOT had middling  traction until Sean Bean got offed- THEN everyone started paying attention. I swear, everyone bloviating about “subverting expectations” clearly never read or watched a tragedy- it’s not exactly original for the honorable guy to have his honor backfire.

Sorry to say, but Joffrey Baratheon spoiled that one way back in season 3 of GOT.

I’m with you: The season was excellent, extremely well acted, was far more true to the staging and lore of the books than most of GOT- just those awful Valeryon wigs. The first season of GOT wasn’t particularly good, neither was most of the second until past the halfway point. And we all know what happened after…

No one got finale screeners so we’ll be waiting a while for the reviews, but for all its pacing and time jumping, HotD would win against S1 GOT, and likely anything after S6. The casting has been phenomenal and despite these actors not having POV chapters to reference their internal dialogue, I feel Rhaenrya, Daemon,…

Too bad everyone “kind of forgot” about the sweet LED lighting in the Painted Table in the original series.

I mean, you answered your own question. We don’t HAVE to live in that world, but we DO. I’d also love to live in a world where motorists respect pedestrian traffic, but that doesn’t stop me from looking both ways before I cross the road.

That, and the irony where this very site posted a 10k bounty for unretpuched photos of Lena Dunham (which is the only time I’ll defend Lena Dunham). Not because the photos were obviously shopped like the Faith Hill Redbook shoot that made Jez famous, but because apparently Lena was too fat and ugly to look that good…

It may have been that the owner moved. When Caribou first started they prided themselves on being owned by a close-knit group. One family member moved to DC, and that was the only reason they opened any stores there.

This site GLEEFULLY participated in that shit. They also pitted Lawrence against Hathaway because “OMG she talked about vibrators!”

In our world it was Bonanza, which I believe is the same company as Ponderosa. And we definitely went for the salad bar- I can't remember when anyone we were with ordered anything other than that unless it was Lent and they were getting fried shrimp.

People are also acting as if their local hipster joint doesn’t use the same suppliers and prep. They DO. That BIX tomato is the same tomato when the Margherita pizza is $12 as when it’s $16. That turtle bar is the same Sweet Street turtle bar at Joey Q Coffee Shop as it is a chain restaurant or in a catering setting. A…

Worked at a Capital Grille for six years, so I have a little sentimental blind spot for them despite the price. It was actually a spinoff of a seafood restaurant in Providence and for years the dirty secret was that you could get the same cut prepared the same way for $20 less (plus a salad/ soup and side) at the…

Tyrion defended Kings Landing from an invading army (that he brutally killed with the same cursed fire he later used as a talking point for Targaryen madness); defending it was an exercise in self preservation. Where did he pontificate about saving the smallfolk of KL? He didn’t. His deed was as one army against…