Tyrian like Chappelle in the "Player Haters Ball" sketch: "I hate you, and I hate you…I don't even know you, but I hate ya guts…"

"…this is seriously the worst fucking featured article I've read in over eight years of participation in this community" - Really? I've lost count of the pieces on AV Club that have made me feel this way. Lots & lots o' nadirs…

Talking Heads seem more a fit with Don DeLillo…

I dunno - Tom Waits circa Bone Machine seems really apt for much of McCarthy. Also, though I have only a passing acquaintance of Nick Cave, he seems almost a no-brainer…

>I have to wonder if budget was being conserved this week with an eye toward later episodes.

>He was much more a caricature of cruelty, viciousness, and stupid arrogance

As long as Michonne is in the show, I'm good.

"And what, I prithee, is a 'wrecka sto'?"

I dunno - I remember seeing an interview at the time (I guess it was with that ghoul Charlie Rose?), and Stoppard seemed enthusiastic.

You're right! How in the hell did I forget that one?

I'd argue no less against the boring, abstract high-minded award-winning tripe of the 80s - Chariots of Fire, Gandhi…

>hackey elizabethan time period jokes.

You didn't like Paltrow in Se7en? And, with the caveat that I'm not actually a big fan, I thought she was really good/funny opposite Jack Black in the Farrelly Bros' Shallow Hal…

This movie was some absolute bullshit. That said, the only enjoyment a friend & I had while watching it in the theater was to note the funny resemblance between a costumed Fiennes and Prince (all in the cuffs) haha

It does sure seem as if Tywin is too worldly ever to expect to find a diamond in the rough—he knows damned well this girl is worth something, that she's someone's jewel, displaced by war. And he has no reason to fear her (a knight-ninja being in her debt notwithstanding)…

Damn, what an ending! Once again, composer Ramin Djawadi steps up, with that new theme, that ostinato…

You left the "+" off the rating, Sparky.

I'm thinking of James Ellroy…And of "Chinatown"…and of "Mulholland Drive" and "Inland Empire." He says "no LA"—but, really, does that matter?

For me, this was the first *truly* cinematic episode of the entire show. At this point, everything onscreen is higher quality: sets (real & virtual), costumes…Cinematography is even better than previously this season. A beautiful mix of textures (the art dept, again), like the grime of Gilliam's "Jabberwocky" and…

GodDAMN - That was no mere A- episode (not if, like me, you're watching it all long after broadcast & don't have to wait a year to see Season 2 haha). It's a truism that we're living in a Golden Age of what used to be called "television"; but, damn, this kind of stuff goes a long way to confirm that fact!