They know Diana = Money. Her death and the subsequent fallout will likely be half a season on its own.

We know it’s not a red herring because Rocco tells Valentina in the first episode that there are “more dead guests.” Granted, initially that didn’t count Lucia and Mia, but now they’re on the guest register and their deaths would make Rocco technically correct.

Or maybe we live in an area where it’s super middle class and not highbrow at all to have an extra freezer/ fridge in the garage. Almost everyone around here (MN) hunts, fishes or goes in with their family once a year to get a whole hog or cow. Get it processed, seal it, slap it in the freezer and you’re good to go-…

People here, on AV Club and on The Root are really showing their asses that they believe intersectionality only applies to straight, cis white people. 

Not only thay, but lurking in the HotD fandom, folks shut up about the Valeryons almost immediately after the first episode aired (except for those rough wigs). Rings of Power would have been a far more appropriate (and easier) target, but that might have required that Dave actually read something.

“When Love is Gone” being deleted (thankfully, it’s in the VHS release) also lessens the impact of the final scene where Scrooge and the cast reprise it. Michael Caine is no singer, but when he moves behind Belle on the bridge, the audience could see for maybe the first time that this was a man that wasn’t…

Katy Perry was a failed Christian music artist before she dyed her hair and shot whipped cream out of her tits. This is a woman that shamed Lady Gaga for having a cross on her costume in the Bad Romance video because Gaga was allegedly "disrespecting Jesus" but missed the memo on chastity and modesty when her own…

The first film suffered from some pretty significant pacing issues (and the godawful CGI); the setting and performances were the only thing that elevated it. It was a perfectly serviceable film, but Fury Road it was not despite everyone out here acting like it.

I mean, when your entire career is generated from being “the tits in Blurred Lines”, “the tits in Gone Girl”, and “modeling” your body IS the discourse. She chose that to get ahead, so sue people for wondering about the only asset she possesses. 

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,…