Laura, thank you for this. It helps.

I know! I hope he what he said to her about the spying was true, and he really did realize that he had royally effed up the best thing in his life.

I see your point. But I actually liked, as Gwen pointed out, that so many of these men became suspects because the community was pitted with all these examples of toxic or damaged masculinity.

Was anyone besides me afraid it was going to turn out to be Tom?

There was recurring theme of fatherhood and what it means to be a good father.

I have chronic depression and anxiety, and I really see both sides. Mark absolutely has an obligation to his two living children, and Beth is right to be frustrated and angry.

There will never be another pairing of characters quite like Ellie and Hardy.

Sending ravens should be Davos's job, as Hand. I'm assuming he's on top of things.

FWIW, as an historian of 16th-century Europe, we often discount kids who die in infancy when numbering someone's offspring.

Right. The prophecy was pretty clear: you'll marry the king, have 3 kids, all 3 kids will die, then a younger queen will come and overthrow you. Cersei hasn't yet been overthrown. If Cersei were going to have a fourth kid before her great downfall, I think the witch would have mentioned it.

…and in the end, Ser Davos, the last living cast member, ascended the Iron Throne.

I immediately thought of Mary Tudor. Middle-aged, childless queen in danger of being supplanted by a younger and more popular queen, has two psychosomatic false pregnancies. It's more like Cersei to consciously invent a pregnancy to manipulate Jaime. But it would actually be a bit humanizing if Cersei convinces…

Um, no I was trying to say he was not likeable—hence the "creepy."

Agreed!

Oh, absolutely! That's true. It's just I noticed today that Katie and Caroline are both walking into established jobs and asserting that they know better than the women who have done it for ages longer in a way that's so insufferable. I can't think of any twenty-something character that comes off as likeable this…

It’s hard to muster any sympathy for Kath after her comments to Trish last week

I hope Hardy gets Daisy a counselor. I think he made the right decision, but she's going to need a lot of support.

Hardy: What's the matter with you? Have you no shame?
Men of Broadchurch: Nope, sorry, none at all.

Given all the porn-related subplots, I hope it's a bigger deal. The problem is that I don't see how they have enough time to deal with it properly. In the show, there's been this emphasis on the connection between the visual fetishization of women's bodies, the almost limitless increase of new technologies for this…

Ser Pounce is the true valonqar prophesied to kill Cersei. Hopefully he'll do it by infecting her with toxoplasmosis, right after he shits in her bed.