I am really interested in the conversation the two of them had that started all of this. 

I agree. I don’t know if it was all the slang, Megan being a fast taker or the infamous SNL sound difficulties but I couldn’t hear half the dialogue. I don’t think I missed much, though 

The whole idea that she is going to fake her death to escape the marriage is really stupid and it made me reconsider watching the show. Her being desperate enough to fake her own death is a lot more believable when you see that it’s an abusive relationship.

They needed that scene with him because it made a lot of what Allison was going through make more sense. I’ve had trouble with her character this season because she was being portrayed as kind of an awful person who kept on dragging people she knows down with her hair brained schemes. Seeing that Kevin was actually a…

The acting on the show has been so good and Annie Murphy is the best so he’s been completely overlooked. He’s so believable as the oafish sitcom husband that he’d probably get a better chance getting nominated if he starred in an actual CBS comedy and not a prestige tv show about misogyny.

It wasn’t just darker but everything was run down and old in it. The couch was old, the walls needed painting, things were falling apart. I also think the little details- like the car she drove or her clothes- added ti that sense that her life was a lot different than it would be in sitcom land. I think issues of class…

If you expand outwards, it has a lot more to say about sitcoms than just the bit about oafish tv husbands. For instance, the contrast between the sets in the sitcom world vs. what they really liked. A “blue collar” married couple in Worcester would live in a house much more like the real house then the sitcom world…

I remember him in that scene because I spent a huge part of that scene wondering who he was and why he was important

I respect their decision to go with the time jumps but I think it ultimately didn’t work to the detriment of the show and I agree that they should have started the show at a later point in the story. This episode definitely would have made a good first episode. A lot of shows on the streaming channels feel like…

One of the issues about the time jumps is that Vaemond had a great point. It is true that the blood line will die if Rhaenyrs kids are given the throne and he has a right to be completely upset by it all but because we’re jumping around so much, the issue isn’t given the weight it should. It’s a really good conflict…

Cleese has built a career out of being an angry, contrarian curmudgeon- which he’s really good at- but that pose has made a lot of people who have similar bents go down really dark paths these days. 

I like the show and think it’s got great potential (next week looks promising) but I also think the show has it’s issues, mainly in that it’s had a hard time giving us a reason to be that invested in the characters and thus the show. 

GoT had a lot of different characters spread out and would hop from character to character. So, yes, you’d have a lot of characters talking in rooms but then you’d get Jon outside if the Wall or Arya being hunted by various bad guys. Each character was also different with different personalities and motivations adding…

I would say he was a good. He brought peace and prosperity and always tried to do the right thing. You could also argue that he was stuck in a bad situation in his choice of an heir because he didn’t have a son at the time he needed to name one and stuck to it because he had integrity.

I think he became my favorite character on the show, at least the most likable. I kind of grew into the charm of him as king, like he gave everybody peace and prosperity and kept on doing the noble thing and just wanted people to shut up and leave him alone. I get that.

Because it was also kind of....boring and slow?

Get out of my head….I couldn’t agree more and I’m glad somebody else brought up the utter rubbish of that whole plot line. Benioff and Weiss deserve major plaudits for just redoing entire parts of that book.  

I don’t even remember that. I just remember racing through the entire section because it was stupid

Everytime people bitch about the producers screwing up Martin’s story, I think back to Dark Star (remember him?) and wonder what wonderful vision they ruined? You try and adapt that crap. That whole Dorne plot line and everything about it in the books was proof enough George lost the thread.

I think it’s very smart of a George to pick two coauthors with enough problematic views to anger the internet to distract the internet from him working on something that is definitely not Winds of Winter.