I'm sympathetic to the "she had nothing to work with" argument, but she also didn't provide any reason to get excited about this casting news with her performance in the role either.

Morbid curiosity?

So the next time you're walking on the beaches of Dorne, enjoying a vaguely Mediterranean hourglass, or making cheap, low-grade poisons, think where we'd be without sand snakes.

It's always hard to tell who to blame when it comes to poor performance. It's not as though she had much to work with in terms of well-written dialogue, but she didn't exactly inspire confidence in her ability to rise above it either, which would be a good trait to have in someone starring in Marvel TV show.

Oh good! One of the sand snakes! They were everyone's favorite part of the latest season! This is quite a step up from the Six Flags Wild West adventure ride that HBO found her in!

I'd love to see something like this. Every once in a while they would lean this direction on Angel, with the title character complaining about how expensive things are or reminiscing about the good old days with Fred's parents. But for the most part he acted like a standard twenty/thirty-something guy.

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I take your point, but I think the Manhattan ending still fits that mold. Yes, Manhattan was an American creation, but much of the story is about how he becomes more and more divorced from humanity. He leaves for Mars, the Americans can't control him (something that, if I recall, gets back to other countries). He…

I'll bite. I like the Manhattan ending for the story economy of it. What am I missing about the squid ending?

Guys, guys, guys. They're both terrible!

Sirko was a Bond villain who happened to be gay. That bar scene was great, but otherwise his dialogue was filled with cliches and trite "lessons" about love. That's not Stevenson's fault—the writing was in the toilet by then—but still, I can't understand the appreciation for that character or storyline.

There really is a Simpsons reference for everything: https://frinkiac.com/meme/S…

Ahh, I missed the rewatching part. Long story short, I think the show's batting average in S6 is much lower, but I love the idea of House hitting rock bottom, making a real effort at trying to get better and be better, wondering what the hell the point is when life can still deal you a shit hand, and finding out that…

I believe that Buffy is still running in different forms of syndication to this day. Not purely serialized, but close.

End of Season 6. Maybe watch the first episode or two of Season 7 if you're curious, but I maintain to this day that the end of Season 6 was the last big gasp of the show, and works best as a culmination of what the show and its main character's journey were about.

I like it, but it feels like a vague riff on the Mad Men intro.

It was, dare I say, Wesley Wyndham Price-esque.

I absolutely love that episode, because like many of these, it's ultimately about Bill's self-esteem, and his sense of fairness in the world despite having been beaten down by life so many times.

I've been clamoring for it since the teased it in 2011.

Maybe Shane will pick a wrestler from the company he once owned to represent him…say, Sting?