Everyone seems to intuit Dorian's secret. Angelique sits down next to him and starts talking to him right away about how young he looks — what's his secret, etc? Since he's a total stranger and she has no idea how old he is, why does she bring this up at all? Why does she know that the portrait is his real self? If I…

"I can't just stay cooped up in here all the time, can I?" Brona asks Victor. Well, yes, in Victorian — even late-Victorian — London, that's exactly what a woman in Brona's position would have to do if she were higher than working class. The idea that it would be ok for her to go swanning off alone with Dorian is…

There is no way Brona/Lily would know to ask Victor "how do you like your eggs?" I know we have to suspend disbelief more than usual with a show like this but having a character with so little memory of herself that she has to be taught everything by her creator, but at the same time knows about things like different…

So whether the trip was intentional or not, by titling the episode the way they did SV writers have pulled off the comedy equivalent of "Glenn's not dead" and "Jon Snow is alive"? That is fucking hilarious.

The whole reason there is a need for Skunkworks in the first place is that in Jack's work environment there is ALWAYS a sales guy around.

I don't think Jack has been bullying Richard. I think that once he secured his position and got Richard's team situated he proceeded to almost forget who Richard was.

Richard congratulating Jared for his Dinesh burn, actually saying, "Congratulations, Jared," was the highlight of this episode for me.

Something was different about the tone in this episode and the one preceding it, for sure.

It's kind of a trope, in story, verse, and song. Penny Dreadful deals quite a bit in these old tropes. And Joan talked a lot in this episode about the false seductions of the devil. In fact, seduction seems to be both a major theme and a major plot point this season. It could be that we just interpret this show from…

I guess Davos is just never even going to ask how Shireen is doing?

I think it's been at least three seasons that people have been saying "This will all change when Jon gets wind of what's going on at Winterfell." The wait has been too long.

Actually I think it was Rome that made them cautious.

I took it as a reason to end the scene and draw out the reveal of what's inside that tower. I think there's about a 1% chance of it having any ramifications whatsoever.

That's a pretty ridiculous overstatement.

I saw all the things you are talking about last season, too. "Herky-jerky" is exactly the term I've been using in my head to describe it. If I had to put my finger on when it started I'd say it was with the introduction of the High Sparrow.

Nothing about the return from that battle made sense. You don't have a game-changing event like that happen and then leave it completely up in there as to whether anyone said anything about it to anyone. You have Jon Snow come back and either make a big, heartrending speech about it or be so demoralized that he can't…

They aren't spending enough time in any location to tell a full story about what's going on. They are having to leave too many gaps in logic for the viewers to fill in ourselves. This is why the writing has also slowly gotten more clichéd — it's easier to follow what's going on if it's presented in a way you've seen…

Unless you think the reviewer is referring strictly to a building, which I really don't think he is, he has spelled the word correctly.

Vanessa, as shown in her conversation with the monster, thinks of herself as so weird that she assumes things she would find personally distasteful are things that "normal" women like.That was how I interpreted that scene, anyway.

I took it to mean the usual thing about not believing false promises. You are assuming the sex was nonconsensual. I am assuming Joan was assuming the pregnancy was the result of a seduction that ended in abandonment. I thought the words were harsh, yes. Joan is neither a nice person nor a feminist theory scholar.