I would be inclined to call BS too, but when we walked in, Qyburn was murmuring something about giving Cersei something to help out with that, an offer which she declined. Maybe that was a show timed to Jaime's benefit, but I doubt it.

Generally agreed. "How can you execute an enemy in wartime???" is inane. She's queen, is why, and they're an enemy in wartime: even Tarly himself made clear, she couldn't sensibly do otherwise.

I would think Daenerys' targeted blast of dragonfire has quite a lot less in common with dropping an atomic bomb than Tyrion's ship full of wildfire that exploded so hard it left a sort of mushroom cloud behind.

Reminds me very much of Betsy Solverson's easy dismissal of Noreen's summary of Camus. Which I also loved. The humility and decency of these admirable, upright folk just swamps the angst of all these eggheads.

If my theory is that Varga is the epitome of lovelessness, that a lack of love is his strength, (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fa… is correct, then his bulimia is evidence of this: he cannot connect enduringly with a pork chop.

It's not at all clear, of course, that Chigurh didn't get his comeuppance. His last victim that we saw refused to play into his frame, which clearly infuriated him, and then he was immediately hit by a car and left mangled.

Fargo is an existentialist fairy tale demonstrating that the only escape from the absurdity of the pomo condition is love; Gloria's once again registering to electronics as a redemptive, baptismal moment; Nikki as a Christ figure, surely doomed to die in order to bring justice to the wicked. See my (semi-lengthy) take…

"Your friend is dead. That's the price you pay for dicking around. Money, tomorrow." Would've been an awesome line.

It is implied that Yuri died of toxic shock (Gloria makes reference to "that Russian fella" dying of poisoning, in the course of talking to Emmit in the hospital about Sy's coma).

A golem is a Jewish folkloric monster formed out of clay and mud in order to serve its master (a perverse rebuke to the Genesis narrative of God forming man from the dust of the earth) and made to live by…. the inscription of a word on its flesh. (A word like, for instance, "Helga").

Also relevant: DJ played "Golem," a Jewish folkloric monster formed out of clay and mud in order to serve its master (a perverse rebuke to the Genesis narrative of God forming man from the dust of the earth) and made to live by…. the inscription of a word on its flesh.

Yeah, we're talking about show-Ketchikan here, not real-life-Ketchikan, which we're all aware differs.

About four Eskimoes, by the look of it!

If season 2 picked up with Gutierrez's election, it could still be called "The Young Pope." Young-ish, at least.

I assumed it was our one and only English Pope, Adrian IV (formerly Nicholas Breakspear). Not that it really matters!

Apparently Ketchikan doesn't even have buildings; I don't see how children could hack it in such an environment!

What the hell happened with Lenny and his parents? The weird panting at the end makes me think some kind of orgy (I'm too young and missed the hippie age — did mothers really walk around their kids topless?).

Well, Sister Antonia put her hand on the sleeping nun's face (who was, presumably, the nun seated beside Sister Antonia during the Pope's Mass, whose hand she was grabbing at), so she rolled away instinctively in order to be able to breathe.

Especially in light of the rumors in Vox Populi of the Pope's inappropriate relationship with her. That's gotta' be really emasculating for the guy.

The Angelo Sanchez subplot is weird. I guess we're supposed to feel sympathetic for a kid who's refused entry into the seminary because of "sexual difficulties" for a period of a mere seven years, who insists he'd be a "great priest," and who proves it by assaulting a cardinal and then committing suicide.