That's what I've been assuming, too, just trying to account for the theory.

Velcoro and his wife were trying for a baby when the rape occurred. The fact that his wife got pregnant around the exact time of the rape seems like a clue. That plus Frank talking about IVF treatments with his own wife. That seemed like he might have been needling Velcoro a little.

I can't believe nobody's talking about that! What in the hell WAS it?

"That's sexist."

I enjoyed the episode, but was anyone else a little disappointed by how closely it tracked with its The Thick Of It analogue? Right down to the mid-hearing recusal of the shill inquisitor.

I miss searing indictments. The indictments these days don't hardly sear at all.

"Olenna calling Olyvar a “perfumed ponce” is just such a beautiful use of alliteration."

They could have cut to a door-frame shot when Reek was told to close the door. Cut to black on the sound of the latch, credits. Show Sansa's trauma afterwards.

I don't mind 'agency'. 'Problematic' is really starting to grind my gears.

It's actually a myth that the countable 'less' is ungrammatical. That's just a style recommendation that's drifted over time into an imagined rule. /hyperpedantry

Chopping it in two like this hints at a more linear rendition, so I doubt we'll see too much of Mike Hanlon's interviews. Adrian Mellon will probably not make the cut, either - it serves as an effectively weird and scary intro in the novel which, if I'm right, won't have a place at the beginning of either movie and…

I enjoyed this, though less than I'd hoped. The core crew are good and I'm glad they resisted the temptation to lean too heavily on Stewart's crush for plot. The robot is terrible, though.

Well… yeah. It's in the nature of inflammatory remarks that they arouse hostility in those opposed to their content. Y'know?

"Slovenly"?

Assembly-line joke-blower briefly harbours delusions of relevance. Get back to work, hoss. The LifeLock and ED pills aren't gonna sell themselves. Gotta sell the soap, baby. Gotta move that merch.

Rather than a death, I think they're far more likely to pull some version of the classic 'line down the centre of the apartment' routine. With Tandy on one side and everyone else on the other, presumably.

I see it more as a reference to Ledger's appearance in the self-shot video from TDK. Or maybe it's just a selfie.

I wonder now. Did the guy called Only Reads Headlines read the article… A question for the ages, I suspect.

More "equivalent to an unthinking, unfeeling stochastic process blindly throwing out an opinion devoid of what we real humans call 'soul'", but 'stupid' looks like a reasonable shorthand, yeah. "Contrived" would do as a similar shorthand for the circumlocuitous, Slate-pitchy rationale for preferring the 'vastly…

"… coffee with a fish in it."