I still unapologetically like The Invisible Band and The Man Who in the same way that I do Parachutes. Which is to say, objectively, not all that much but they have some great sullen pop melodies if you ignore most of the lyrics. Mostly, they just take me back to that particular millennium Britpop invasion. I remember…

The diversity issue vis-a-vis the source material may be a bit more complicated. I don't recall 100% but are we ever told that Hermione was specifically white before she was illustrated? It's not like this was a world without any racial diversity. I'm not suggesting that she wasn't white in Rowling's mind so your…

I am sad just thinking about one of them watching Jeopardy alone with their TV tray :(

Does there need to be an "overall, coherent message" of everything? I was enthralled with the show from the outset, partly based on the production style and quality of the pilot but largely based on what turned out to be rather inapt comparisons to recent true crime products. As it progressed and I kept hearing and…

Not to mention that a) Reagan sure as hell made a lot of dough out of being a politician (not exclusively) and b) the only reason he didn't milk his Presidential fame for many millions more was because he was a fucking vegetable at least two years from the end of his term, let alone afterwards when Nancy kept him…

Odd that probably the two most recently A.V. Clubbed shows—Game of Thrones and Orange is the New Black—aren't mentioned. I'd suggest these are also missing: Bloodline, Peaky Blinders, Broad City and BoJack (just under the wire). I guess The Night Of and Mr. Robot are still in progress.

Interestingly, I am gay and live in SF and the only two friends of mine who really liked it are a straight, married man and a straight, married woman.

Just finished it and I really enjoyed it. I am sort of confused about what it "is," though. It is a normal series or some sort of anthology series? Without spoiling much, it seems like a self-contained season but it is described by Netflix as "Season 1." Even the branding and ending read more like a X-Files or Tales…

PSA: The Warriors is streaming on Netflix.

Of course, you can watch dispassionately but I'm not sure how enjoyable that would be. Dramatic fiction of this sort is predicated on tension between a protagonist and an antagonist. Preferring one outcome over another doesn't necessarily equate to some rational, political support for it. Personally, I would've loved…

Well, yeah. We all get the poetic justice of her initial suffering as a result of her actions. But, when presented with those two opposing characters over the last season and a half, you're sarcastic support of Cersei logically implies that we should have rooted for the High Sparrow who "persecuted a gay person"…

I think it was also the near absence of dialog and background noise in many of scenes. The second half of that track is driven by strings (with some dramatic choral and organ transitions).

They picked the perfect foil in a bunch of religious zealots to get me to genuinely root for her to win.

The first 30 minutes of this episode rival anything I can recall on a TV series. I can't even think of anything on the Sopranos or Breaking Bad that was this deliberately paced and stylized. It was incredible.

Cersei to Unella was like: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Not anymore (she was crowned Cersei Lannister).

Yeah, it's also just a very difficult thing to depict on screen without becoming too disturbing. Look at the backlash the show got for depicting even a bit of what goes on in the book, let alone what went on in a comparable period of medieval history.

Point of order, she directs some of the episodes (anecdotally, it looks to be about half). I think your point is probably more about the writing.

True. I think the gap for me was that she took a face from the hall so it was implied that there was some specific magic at work there. I guess she can harvest and use faces on location, too.

The way Cersei caressed her body and knowing that it'd be particularly horrific for such a pious bitch (not to at all imply that it wouldn't be horrific for anyone) leads me to believe that Mountain was meant to rape then kill her or leave her for dead, as he is wont to do. If she simply wanted her tortured and kept…