Since many of the posters here (me included) are often criticizing the writing on the site, it’s worth saying -- this review is very well written.

I dunno, I’d argue that even before the Targaryens most Westerosi were conquered and forced into a governmental structure they didn’t want. It was just that you were oppressed by one of seven or eight more local kings. All the Targaryens did was put a high king ahead of all of them and thus greatly reduce the number…

I don’t know if this is a review error or an actual plot point of the film, but Jane Seymour was not murdered. Seymour died of natural causes following childbirth. Does this movie suggest she was murdered? Is that a conspiracy theory I’m not familiar with because Seymour famously received a queen’s funeral and Henry…

7). Why is Danvers willingly letting 12 murderers go free when she’s a police officer?

It depends on how widespread and “magic” the show wants these microorganisms to be. Perhaps they are infecting not only the Tsalal researchers, but others including Fiona Shaw and Navarro to varying degrees. Causing Navarro to see the researcher talk to her about her mother, or causing Shaw’s character to see her dead…

So...season 1 of Fortitude? 

If the captions are to be trusted, he’s humming “Twist & Shout”, which could explain why Danvers is so down on that tune.

Since it wasn’t brought up in the review—Danvers went to a gathering to mourn the stillborn child, yeah? Seems like she has a soft spot for young kids because of her son dying(??), similar to Navarro’s doggedness in cases with abused women. I wondered if she went to the gathering because of that striking a chord (she…

My wild speculation: the “she” will have something to do with the legend that Pete’s kid drew the creepy drawing of (cut to grandma’s dramatic storytelling in a later episode), but that’ll be the spiritual interpretation while the scientific one will be the microorganism was “reawakened” by the project (perhaps by…

Halfway through and feeling like we know very little so far is a little troubling. I guess it was around 2/3's of the first that they figured out the suspects and had ‘the shootout’ (I.e. murdered the 1 man in cold blood when they saw what he’d been doing and let the other explode on his own i.e.d.) so maybe the pace…

This show reminds me so much of the British show Fortitude. Definitely wonder if a mammoth carcass comes into play here at some point....

That was my reaction as well but then again I imagine my father had the same thoughts about all the Time Magazine articles on Michael Jackson back in 1983 when he was dominating the culture. Or my mother’s father’s reaction to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan back in 1965.  Who the hell cares that you don’t care?  She isn’t…

I mean, there's no rephrasing your way out of "I don't think Blacks and women are smart enough to give good interviews."

imagine the types of questions they would ask women and black artists.

There is so, so much to unpack here regarding Wenner and how The Masters ended up the way that it is. At it’s core, it’s not complicated: His entire career is/was guided by biases that he refuses to recognize and combat. Thus, a rock retrospective that looks very little like the actual history of rock and roll, but…

I remember thinking when Helena was pretending to be Alison with Donnie and the police that how could the police be fooled because they were nothing alike, not even in appearance.

Impressive in a perverse sort of way how they managed to incinerate all the years of character development of Jaime Lannister with just one line, wasn’t it?

I love Tatiana Maslany as Helena on Orphan Black so much. She stayed in character on set as whatever clone sister she was playing that day. One of the directors complained to the showrunner that Helena was impossible to direct

AFAIK The plan is basically:

I’m pretty sure Rudd is talking to a cookie in the video, listen to it again “you shouldn’t be here, GO! no you’re just going to sit just there, acting all sweet, you’re bad” I’m guessing he’s talking to a cookie that may or may not be poisined