This was by far my favourite episode of the miniseries so far.

This is a fictional narrative.  If we aren’t shown unrest, there isn’t any -- indeed, when we do see the people of KL in Season 7, they’re cheering for Euron and he and Jaime joke that the people of KL are total dupes who just like to see people’s heads cut off.

She doesn’t need to provoke Dany into attacking if Dany is dead.  She’s already told the people that Dany is an invader, and in any event, Cersei blew up the equivalent of the Vatican and got away with it without any unrest.

Cersei has been characterized as completely immoral and unconcerned with norms.  There is no reason she would not have killed Dany’s entire party, and especially Tyrion, who was well within archer range even in the show’s internal logic.

Characters not behaving consistently isn’t dramatically satisfying either.

I mean...yes?

They put this up immediately to give people a space to talk.  The review comes later.

Classic D&D, having Sansa tell the Hound that if she hadn’t been raped for months she wouldn’t ever have been able to be a skilled politician.

It’s very easy to tell when an audience is excited about a trailer.

The trailer for Aladdin got a hugely indifferent response when I saw it attached to Endgame.

Instead, different iterations of the family end up in side stories that range from the ludicrous to the annoying.

Archie is considerably smarter than the current C-in-C, so they have to let him in.

I liked the little bit of interaction we got between Jane and the twins this week (their studiousness would presumably appeal to her, though they pair it with something of a know-it-all demeanour).

Also, I love that Betty and Jughead had Cheryl change the prom theme to Ren Faire at the last minute and everybody still had appropriate costumes.

I’ve never quite understood why this show is better at conjuring up a spooky, frightening atmosphere than its explicitly supernatural counterpart, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (a show I like, to be clear, but it’s never touched this show in terms of the vibe). The Black Hood hallway sequence is terrific thriller…

Williams is definitely the highlight of the show, benefiting also from the fact that highlighting Verdon’s story is the fresher part of the series.  Even if Fosse hadn’t already basically given us his life story, his issues are super familiar.

Fight the real enemy: the rat in The Departed.

The Night King is a riff on the book historical figure of the Night’s King, who was not the leader of the Others, or the first Other.

Well, the Night King doesn’t exist in the books, so GRRM knows what to do with him in the sense of not creating him.

To answer Myles’ question, Tyrion and Sansa didn’t do anything after they got up.  They ran and joined the other named characters hiding in a corner.