the backlash was huge. the people who hated it rewatched it only about 20 times rather than the typical 50+.

conway is part of a class of pundits that cnn nurtured, people who are paid to say the craziest things they can think of, who have no obligation to reflect or acknowledge the truth, who nonetheless are always invited back to do it all over again. so while i'm concerned about the larger attack on journalism, cable…

see you here in may!

but the recent preoccupation with it here has gotten tiresome. 'ooh, who is the showrunner this year? is he different from the showrunner last year? i wonder what he will do? i wonder what he will do different? can i predict what is going to happen because of it? i wonder who he is thinking of? is he thinking…

gurl, stop trying to make 'showrunner' happen already

'no longer keep up with things purely out of obligation'

i think essentially it's about how the entire course of history can be affected by individual action or inaction, and i think it's particularly popular now because in the US we're about to see how that plays out while we watch democracy being undermined and dismantled.

the end of season 1, where tagomi crossed over to a different reality (perhaps our reality), shows how the films might also be crossing over between realities. juliana's belief that she saw trudy after seeing her killed gives a hint that maybe as part of the resistance (and as someone who says she has it all figured…

I came away from it figuring that the host that was being built in Ford's lab was indeed the replacement for Theresa. Now that we know Bernard is a host, we can consider all the observations he kept making about her expressions (her 'reveries'), and even sleeping with her, were part of the 'background' process of his…

' . . . but “The Adversary” goes a long way towards rebuilding the faith I lost in previous weeks . . . '

because they're also responsible for ensuring that the hosts perform appropriately in the context of their scenarios, and her failure to do so would focus attention on them. if you dial up her intelligence, she is at least smart enough to pretend not to be that intelligent and to play her part as expected; if you…

i thought the most brilliant thing in this (amazing) episode was that they took away their phones and in return gave them phones with the phone part turned off so they can shoot video—instead of just giving them video cameras—and now they have to walk around awkwardly holding up their phones to take video.

I don't think the reasons they are giving for returning to the house are intended to be believable. I think the one motivation for all of them was that these everyday people became overnight celebrities and now would do anything to not let that celebrity fade, with the added joke that they think they are safe because…

yeah, it would be great if the show could be reviewed on the basis of what we're seeing rather than trying to be clever and needlessly prescient based on what somebody said at a comic book convention once upon a time. it's as tired as predicting that some character is going to die because the actor didn't sign a…

It's great seeing gay characters and relationships this complex. Connor started out looking like a more superficial gay dude who would sleep with a guy for information, but just as we're realizing there's depth there, he's realizing that people underestimate him for it. It was amazing how he connects to the client…

if pycelle was the only one who could tie her to the wildfire, it explains the particular timing of his death, and Cersei can say it was the church stockpiling wildfire.

i feel like the brotherhood, arya, brienne, and melisansdre are all converging on the same neighborhood.

would Pycelle have been the only one not in league with Cersei who could tie her to the wildfire and explosion? it would make sense for Cersei to be able to blame it on the church, turning everyone against the surviving members, and using the sympathy card to help hold her position.

wtf you come in here with some harlequin-romance idea of what is or isn't 'excusable' in a northern-westeros marriage and it's supposed to be obvious you've read the books? and merely explaining a rationale is giving you some kind of refresher?

i don't know what the fuck you've read. just saying that he had every reason to think that the wife he barely knew might not have the same dedication to protecting jon that he had, and past the point where they actually discovered they cared for each other, he might not have wanted her to carry the burden (or…