We haven’t progressed that far, as Anna Gunn can tell you.

Just had a birthday on Sunday. She also created Faerie Tale Theatre, which was pretty groundbreaking as one of the first original cable series. As we didn’t have premium cable when I was growing up, I only discovered it years later and holy crap does it feature some Hollywood heavyweights.

I recently rewatched The Shining and it’s so strange the discourse around her in it because her performance not only isn’t bad, it’s uniquely good. It’s honestly one of the most brutally realistic depictions of a woman in an abusive relationship. It’s interesting too because throughout the movie she’s legitimately…

Kind of odd to list multiple roles in the header, subhead and article but not mention Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale Theater that had an absolute ridiculous cast in just about every episode.

An icon of a bygone era an example of both the highs and lows of that Director-driven New Hollywood era. Her role in the Shining is iconic and traumatic, her role in Popeye is perfectly cast.

I understand. She probably told her reps she only wanted to deal with anti-vax distributors and when they could only find one, they kept the exact details from her. Tale as old as time.

Wyatt Russel kinda has the same thing going with his parents.

I do like how Jack Quaid looks like am exact 50/50 combination of his parents—i.e., “what if Dennis Quaid were just cute as a little button?”

With most other nepo baby actors, I would dismiss this out of hand as a slightly more sophisticated PR tactic...

he’s pissed because after sleeping with her when she was a teenager she didn’t agree to abandoning her life and running away with him to appease his guilty conscience. it’s hard to take that seriously.

Dragon saddles need ejector seats.

Yep. No more AV Club reviews for me, for any show if editors can't avoid these or be bothered to mention book spoilers. And that doesn't seem to be the only one, if my suspicions are correct 

Here is an idea, HOW ABOUT NO SPOILERS about events in the book that the show has not gotten too? Even if vague 

I dunno, I’d argue that even before the Targaryens most Westerosi were conquered and forced into a governmental structure they didn’t want. It was just that you were oppressed by one of seven or eight more local kings. All the Targaryens did was put a high king ahead of all of them and thus greatly reduce the number…

Really going to miss those knowing looks from Eve Best when someone is full of shit.

They’re writing for the actors now, and throwing in a lot of fanservice. There’s a reason we’re seeing a lot of Aemond swooshing around and being filmed in profile. He’s also being characterized in a way that suits the performance but isn’t in the book. Same for Aegon. Tom G-C is doing a great job of playing Aegon as…

Those poor dragons. All that crying and shrieking as they’re forced to fight, terrible. Dragons should be free and loved.

Parenting grades for the episode:

Now, anyone who’s read Fire & Blood will already know that this oh-so-astute healer plays an important role in events to come.

Yes as I learned last week and after rereading the book, the Tullys are all named after Muppets, Grover, Elmo etc. No I do not understand why he did this. I understand this as much as when in the original Game of Thrones book, three Valesmen help Catlyn Stark and they are named Moe Larry and Curly with slightly…