The problem is in making a joke out of a situation that has deeply troubling undertones.

The showrunner just gave an interview saying it was their intention to have Gina Rodriguez recur on the show next season & show the progression of their relationship, have her meet Rosa’s parents (and presumably some drama with that).

It’s too bad that Gina Rodriguez has her own show (for another season, at least), because she was really charming with Rosa here.

Since Shogun World is based on people’s imagining of the period, which guns don’t typically feature in, it’s not surprising that there aren’t any.

This episode just highlights how much more interesting Maeve’s storyline is compared to Dolores’ these days. And it’s not just Maeve herself, mind you, she’s going to interesting places, she’s got more compelling supporting characters, her motivations make more sense, etc.

A friend’s wedding? Seriously? Just how close was Clooney and Oprah to Megan Markle prior to all this royal nonsense?

I will forever resent that the revival didn’t do anything with Rory having been an early journalist on the Obama campaign. C’mon, that was an insane bit of good luck, seeing as he was at the time an extreme long-shot.

Anyway, interesting to see supposed ‘left-wingers’ and great hopes of the Democratic Party, including George Clooney and Oprah, reveal their true stripes as royalists, and de facto upholders of privilege and the status-quo.

Well, technically we’ve already had that in Lifetime’s version, though one suspects that The Crown (if it goes that far) will bring a much higher level of production value, and probably not feature a lioness who is implied to be Princess Diana’s spirit.

Twas a nice ceremony.

Except her mother, who seems lovely.

The part where a guy is killed using a microscope with blades concealed in the lenses was deeply traumatic for me as a child.

And what happened then? Well, in Moscow they say that Elizabeth’s small heart grew three sizes that day.

I don’t think a shorter season is necessary. This show has so many characters that it benefits from more time to spread around. They just didn’t do a good job with some plot elements this year.

This episode had no right to be as coherent as it was, considering the number of different plots colliding.

The last we see of the (I think unnamed?) woman from the cold open, she’s survived the tiger attack only to wind up in the less-than-charitable hands of the Ghost Nation. Which could be either a mean-spirited joke—congrats, you’re dead!—or could mean she’ll show up later. I hope it’s the latter.

I was a big fan of the Betty and Cheryl dynamic in this.

Someone please tell Mrs. Cosby to please not compare her disgusting pervert husband, who had two trials with some of the priciest lawyers in America, to an innocent 14-year-old beaten to death by a mob.

The bit where Elizabeth sneers that she’ll handle Kimmy (and then mocks Philip as wanting to have sex with her) really crystallized for me that I find it very hard to see Elizabeth as anything but a villain who needs to be taken down hard at this point.

What I mean is that they didn’t have a personal acquaintance and romance like they did in the comics.