Consistently amused by these reviews. It’s not even like I usually disagree with the broad strokes, I think that the overall opinion on the episodes is generally pretty dead-on but I can’t for the life of me understand how every single time I find myself nodding in agreement with the headline/first paragraph only to…

Huh. A little surprised by this review, I thought it was definitely better than last week’s episode. This bit with Laoghaire was always going to be tricky to do without seeming massively cliche, but I feel like the writers did the best they could with it. There are a lot of really big coincidences in the novels that…

Yeah, I think it would have just been more interesting if they were both really trying and still failing because sometimes that’s how life and love and marriage work. Sometimes people love their wives and still have affairs. Sometimes people love more than one person in different ways.

I’d totally agree with you on John Grey and William (and would have thrown them in there too, but since I was just looking at this episode and onwards I left them out). They are two of my favorite aspects of the on-going story.

Yeah, it’s an interesting question to take a step back and consider what you actually need plot-wise from this book (with a big caveat that in my opinion, most of the episodes that have been giant departures from the book were pretty terrible for any number of reasons- although not all... I did really like the…

This episode felt a little rushed and a little lazy. Like “here are the points we need to hit (including a jealous spat and the stupid thing about the bikini which is from a later part in the book), now write around it”. None of it is that crazy, like obviously you can’t just pick up again after 20 years with no…

Very weird to me that the reviewer thinks it’s crazy Claire would have some insecurities while at the same time saying she acts like it hasn’t been 20 years since they saw each other. Aren’t her insecurities literally an acknowledgment of the fact that they have spent two decades apart?

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Yeah, I mean I do agree that her acting isn’t really helping. She certainly isn’t my favorite character, even in the books although there is definitely more room to explain her motivations there. But honestly I feel like a lot of that is just because her function, in the books, never had to do with her character, but…

I definitely agree with the assessment of the acting on the show, but its hard to put all of the faults on Sophie Skelton at this point. She isn’t my favorite, and seems to be a way better actress when she isn’t speaking :/ but...the dialogue in this episode was seriously weak. I felt like pausing multiple times as I…

Murtagh was definitely no longer in the books by this point. I believe in a later book Jamie tells Claire he died at Culloden, but didn’t know or blacked out the details. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does replace Duncan, they definitely fill a similar narrative purpose and it would be really nice to keep the…

I was a book reader before I started the tv series and couldn’t really imagine how they would do it without voiceover - there were just so many thoughts and decisions she makes in the first book without anyone to talk to that seemed like they would be difficult to explain without it. But watching the series I’ve come…

Natasha Vargas-Cooper wrote a good piece about this last year (you may have already seen) http://jezebel.com/my-hot-consensual-introduction-to-the-rape-fantasy-rom-1705332424

Kelly, there is nothing that gets me more excited than seeing you’ve written a new piece on romance (except possibly reading the comments on said pieces and getting new recommendations) Thanks!

According to Alan Sepinwall's review the producers have stated it was in fact the only time they'll do it, and he will only appear in flashbacks from now on.
http://www.hitfix.com/whats…

Were you a fellow Great Books student then? I agree, I can not imagine anything less surprising about this.

I went to Xavier and graduated in 2006 - this guy was my theology teacher freshman year (which I’m pretty sure was also his first year teaching there). This does not surprise me in the slightest. He could be a bit of a prick to students he felt like he was smarter than which didn’t necessarily read as misogyny to me…

I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
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She's been pretty upfront about it: http://www.terrydresbach.com/dior/

Okay I figured they had established that, I just couldn't remember. Thanks!