It's not every day I have an excuse to post a link to an Al Duvall song:

Wow - wasn't he a pretty big guy? And I'd have thought the beard would be scratchy.

Wow - wasn't he a pretty big guy? And I'd have thought the beard would be scratchy.

That's how I remember it too. I liked the reminder that 1. the world of Trinity that all the kids are trying so hard to fit in with looks pretty strange from the outside, and 2. just because you're a rebel of some kind doesn't mean other rebels will like or understand you.

That's how I remember it too. I liked the reminder that 1. the world of Trinity that all the kids are trying so hard to fit in with looks pretty strange from the outside, and 2. just because you're a rebel of some kind doesn't mean other rebels will like or understand you.

He eats a lot of beans when he's out on that fishing boat.

He eats a lot of beans when he's out on that fishing boat.

In keeping with the non-supernatural slant of Nolan's Batmovies, the Wonder Twins won't physically transform into anything but will put on various fur suits and rapidly make ice sculptures.

I'm sure they have Mance. S2 left off with Jon about to meet Mance.

I'm sure they have Mance. S2 left off with Jon about to meet Mance.

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus One of those numbers is way too high, either intelligence or wisdom, depending on how you define them. Jaime isn't very good at thinking more than zero steps ahead.

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The "working better" bit doesn't happen in Tyrion's first meeting with Hallyne anyway.

SPOILER….. The scene with Stannis burning the leeches was in book 3. That totally gave me chills— he names two people you really want to see die and then one that you really don't.

If you compare the way he dresses now to the way he looks in flashbacks, I think it's pretty clear that his persona and fashion sense were locked into place in the '50s at the moment that Sterling hired him. He put together an idea of how an adman looks and acts, based on Sterling, just like he previously learned how…

During this episode when Anna started explaining all the insane wine serving rules to Molesley, I got briefly excited remembering how well the show used to use those kinds of details. This season I rarely have any idea what the hell the staff does for a living.

I was skeptical too, but at least according to Wikipedia, it's not implausible. The right to remain silent was established in British law in 1912, and although there was no law explicitly requiring the police to announce that right until the '70s, apparently it was already pretty well settled by legal precedent.

I like Sybil, but when the sisters found them at the inn through the clever approach of "find the only place to stay that's a short drive from home on the main road, and that has our car in the parking lot", and the couple was like "OMG HOW ON EARTH DID YOU FIND US?!?", I started thinking they are dumb enough to…

What Penguin said— the script made him look dumber than necessary— but the actor still sold the hell out of it. He always had this desperate edge that not only made his petty gangster ambitions seem like a plausible path for him to take, but made me kind of hope he would succeed. And the scene where he trashes the…

Nicely explained. The only thing that didn't ring true for me was, unless I missed it, there had been absolutely no mention of the Spanish flu up to this point— and when they do bring it up early in this episode, they still seem to think it won't be that bad. Wasn't the deadlier second wave already well underway by…