Jordan Hoffman is a/k/a Phil Pirrello? I know all the freelancers of the AVC LA era seem pretty interchangeable, but I don’t know why Jordan would write this review under a pseudonym. Then again, it could just be that Hoffman wrote that review for Vanity Fair (step up, no doubt), which just happens to also hire some…

According to my friends on social media, Johnson is a verifiable snacking god. If AVC had had the presence of mind to ask him about the snacks, that might’ve actually been an article worth clicking on.

The horrible thing is that some of the time, “Inside the Episode” actually tells us stuff that they didn’t manage to convey in the episode. So you ask, “You two knew this, and you knew we’d be curious about it afterward...so why on earth didn’t you put that on screen?”

Yeah, that was some shit right there. I like the season as a whole a little more than you do, but the end (and that moment in particular) was undercooked garbage.

One of the frustrations of the Whedon Justice League is that Cavill seems really game to play a much happier Superman, and it gets completely wrecked by the fact that they wouldn’t let him shave off his Mission: Impossible mustache, so they have to give him a digitally reconstructed mouth.

You’ve figured it out: it’s a Braniac movie where he takes a job at the IRS while waiting for Superman to let down his guard.

I think Vhagar’s reluctance was because he was bonded to Laena as his rider, not because she was a Targaryen. As they established earlier in the season, once a dragon and rider are bonded, it won’t take orders from anyone else. Heck, in an earlier episode little kid Aemond almost got roasted by a dragon when he tried…

If Larys’s thing wasn’t burning people’s houses down, he could have just deported her to Sweden, along with Roman Maronie.

I totally buy that someone could die that way. The ball hit him on the temple, which is one of the weakest spots on the human skull, and they did some nice Foley work earlier to give the impression that those balls are a lot heftier than we’ve been lead to think. But it strains credulity to think that Cole would kill…

1. I wasn’t loving Cooke’s performance until this week. She was really leaning too heavily on eye rolls and exasperated looks in her dealings with Rhaenyra and Viserys and basically anyone else who opposed her. But this week it was her episode, front to back, and she did a good job.

Aemond’s abhorrent behavior has mainly been confined to stuff we can trace to Otto/Alicent’s influence: he’s been told that the kingdom belongs to the Greens by right, and he’s convinced he’s in a kill-or-die conflict with Rhaenyra and her sons and her faction. The rest of it is the typical “second sons in Westeros”…

Yeah, I think they wanted to give Alicent an entanglement to Larys that isn’t a Cersei-like “she’s screwing him in return for his spy/assassination services” (which would make her a huge hypocrite given her religiosity and how she reacted to Rhaenyra having sex out of wedlock) but would still be intimate and shameful…

Apparently, it’s a historical artifact—the department has been controlled by a Board of Police Commissioners since its inception in 1874. The original design had the governor appointing the board. For a while in the 1930s, the city got control, but the state took it back due to rampant corruption. So the city now gets…

Good pull! I can imagine Johns referencing the trope, too—it wasn’t that I thought anyone saying the words “angry black man” was intrinsically racist. It’s more that that’s the closest Fisher came to actually making a case that he’d suffered from racial animus (there are definitely contexts where people could use the…

Twitter—suing Musk to get him to shit or vacate the pot on his long-threatened plans to buy the service

Wait ‘til you get to “Death Con 2.”

Is it bad that this story doesn’t lower my estimation of Murray all that much? I’m roughly Green’s age, and it wasn’t at the time out of bounds for an adult to put hands on you for being rude or for simply talking back to them, and Green was being a disgusting shit boy in this situation. None of this is to say Murray…

Has anyone confirmed any of this with Reynolds? Because I’m guessing the “conversation” came down to: Reynolds calling to say “WTF? We didn’t have a feud!” Miller panicking upon hearing Reynolds’s voice, and then Miller yelling “Pizza Haus!” into the phone and hanging up. And not picking up the phone when Reynolds…

I don’t begrudge the man his money, or his wanting to make more. There were a ton of years he was writing up a storm and almost certainly not getting paid nearly enough for his efforts. If I had a way where I could get paid for work I’ve already done and other people—who HBO pays, not me!—were the ones who had to do…

I typically don’t find it necessary to issue the disclaimer that I don’t know GRRM and have no means of reading his mind. I was being a tiny bit arch. Thought that was obvious, but I guess not obvious enough.