This is a highlight credit for the vast majority of the actors on the show, and I’d imagine the main cast is very well paid at this point. There’s some danger of them getting typecast, after becoming so well for these roles and nothing else, but given that Kit Harrington’s has landed comedic roles, the threat can’t be…

I am interested in, and appreciative of, the artistic and technical aspects of making good film/TV, as I suspect most people on the AV Club are, but I’m certainly not a director.

I’m still reflecting on it, but the writing decisions that I’m having the hardest time accepting are the ones with Dany and the ones with Jaime.

I didn’t say it wasn’t plot driven. I said it was well acted. Almost well acted enough to make it believable, despite how sharp of a turn it is for a character who has been pretty well established as well-intentioned (and though cruel at times, reluctantly so).

There are a lot of people unimpressed with the way that the story has turned, but I absolutely enjoyed the execution - this was by far the best executed episode of the season, maybe of the series. Almost every shot was visually stunning. The pacing was sharp, the editing was sharp, the music was perfect. The emotions…

Some really good ones on this list. Steve McQueen, especially. How can you talk about cool without mentioning Steve McQueen.

Okay, “Hockey Mike” 😉. Sorry about Last Call getting cancelled.

The writers chose Bronn because he’s a fun and well-liked character, it gives him a reason for being in the season, and it gives an opportunity to call back to something to laid down in an earlier season (Tyrion’s assurance that he’d pay double what anyone else paid to betray him). Can you name one other character -…

You are right on this, and I would delete my earlier comment if I could.

Inexplicably popular YouTube personalities have an otherwise unblemished reputation for wholesomeness, so this is truly shocking. For something so vile to emerge from something so morally pure rattles me to the core.

Remember how that passionate song, sung by Steven Tyler, was played over top of Ben Affleck boning down on Tyler’s daughter, Liv. Weird shit, man.

How sure are you that’s true? Because I looked around once at how royalties work for actors on streamed shows, and under the SAG contract it was totally dictated by how many subscribers the streaming site had (not the number of views). And we also know that none of the streaming sites like to disclose their viewership…

JustWatch also has an app, which I check in on occasionally, especially if there’s a movie or TV show I’m specifically interested in watching, and I don’t know where I can find it. The app will identify if it’s available for streaming on any of my subscribed services and the pricing to rent or buy from places like…

Bingo.

I haven’t seen the legal briefs in the case, but the claim wouldn’t be for “plagiarism” (which is an academic rule, not grounds for a civil claim) but for copyright infringement. And there is no intent requirement with copyright infringement. If you parallel write the same joke someone else already wrote, you’re…

Fair enough, I just re-watched the scene because I was so sure I remembered him caving to her pressure. But he definitely doesn’t, you’re right. He says “they are my family, we can live together” and Dany says “We can. I’ve just told you how”. I think the subtext that stuck with me was that Dany was basically saying…

Counterpoint: Look at the replies to any popular tweet, and you will see different people (not even professional comedians!) repeating the same obvious jokes over and over again, with minimal variation.

I take the point that this isn’t the first time Cersei has passed up a clear and present opportunity to slaughter a brother, but this is some pretty elaborate head canon with Bronn. I think it’s a fair reading that Cersei is not keen to pull the trigger herself, but I’d not go further than that. I don’t think you can…

Theorizing what will happen next remains one of the great joys of watching this show. It’s easy to be critical of the decisions of the show makes after the fact, but the anticipation and speculation leading up to an episode, and the tension that the different possibilities create in every scene, is a lot of fun. It…

I’m starting to think that this entire season was plotted around saving money on CGI.