Maybe a little, but you're going to get that when you don't substitute "warm clothes" when that's obviously what someone means. I've lived in various parts of Michigan my whole life and dealt with all of the above and more. It's all fine if you take sensible precautions.

Sorry, coat, hat and a shovel.

Yeah, you do in such a place, because that's everywhere. Driving in the snow is a skill, sure, but it's not that hard.

I had a damn cassette of Purple, so sell me right down the river.

I thought I was taking it easy there. Things definitely got worse before the turn of the century, without even invoking Fred Durst. Weren't there about a thousand terrible, faceless rock bands that sounded like less charismatic Seven Mary Threes and somehow showed up on the radio?

People who complain about winter weather should be sentenced to listening to nothing but whichever mid-90s radio hits they don't like until spring 2030. I have a coat and a hat, I combine them and it solves the entire problem of winter, every year. Yet, I still hear nothing but people upset at the planet for tilting.

Me, too. We had Indian kids on our basketball team and would often get stuff yelled from the stands and people doing the tomahawk chop. This was the 90s and mainly the Western U.P.

Yeah, but if you're Nick Cannon, the food can be turkey and the TV can be awesome British gangster shows. Rather than cold McDonalds and whichever of those daytime talk shows about who the father of your child is might still be airing.

I assume he was raised by fucking Gerhardts to be a cold killer, so it's not completely his fault. I'm sure he's embraced the badassery of it at times because what else is he gonna do and he's obviously very good at it, but man, if that guy's ever had anything good in his life, what could it have been?

Add Upper Michigan in there.

Giant Spider Invasion and Terror From the Year 5000 are Mike-era favorites for me.

That's not true. Or at least someone will sell you Orange is the New Black on disc.

He's got a way to go before he matches either version of Bronn, but he's pretty good.

Funny, most seem to find the Vikings more likeable than the English on the show. And even if you think Uthred's a cliche, he's one who's placed in an interesting situation of having to constantly choose between his long term ambition and his short term desires. Alfred's clearly portrayed as smart, but not all powerful…

Leofric is in no way insufferable, earsling.

It's a good point about how this show is just self-assured in its storytelling, not explaining the time jump other than showing Mildrith not pregnant and then, next scene, hugely so. I hate to keep comparing it to The Bastard Executioner, but that show has really specific title cards explaining where things are…

Matilda of Tuscany needs to be in that top three.

My guess is that you don't forge nations by being a good bro and almost have to be a megalomaniac to even attempt such a thing.

I thought they were doing that pretty well with Alfred in this episode, actually. And is this show made by Brits in Hungary in any sense a product of Hollywood? Brits have their own ways of relating or not to religion quite distinct from sort of squishy sorta liberal Americans you're complaining about.

Leoferic (?) says something like aren't the monks missing you? Even he can barely manage to care.