“The Democratic Party doesn’t represent anything that I think, and neither does the Republican Party *right now* ...”

It was offensive, in the right way. The line ‘when it’s black it’s a gang, and when it’s italians, it’s the mob, and when it’s jews, it’s a coincidence’ is brilliant in it’s structure. That’s not saying you have to agree OR be offended. But he couches it in counterexamples that puts the critic in the position of…

I’m probably in the minority, but I thought season 2 was the best closed-loop serial I’ve seen on TV since it was revealed that (*spoilers*) Sinclair was Valen in Babylon 5.

I love how these characters feel very different from last season, but at the same time so specific to a certain type of privileged individual.

Presumably some permutation of Cavill getting tired of the role, or too busy with other things (movies) he’d rather be doing, or potential behind-the-scenes drama (e.g. conflicts with the showrunner). Too bad, I think he’s great in the role.

So The Onion has this “joke” whenever a mass shooting happens they run the same headline “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happen”.

Can we get a special shout-out to Val Lewton? The guy produced nine of the best horror movies ever made and gave directorial debuts to Jacques Tourneur & Robert Wise.

Did we watch same series :D.

I preferred HOTD, or at least looked forward to its episodes more. Good acting, loved the visuals, and it’s basically a costume soap opera with dragons that occasionally veers into tragedy (with the “tragedy” aspect of it coming in hard at the end).

The first season of GOT had middling  traction until Sean Bean got offed- THEN everyone started paying attention. I swear, everyone bloviating about “subverting expectations” clearly never read or watched a tragedy- it’s not exactly original for the honorable guy to have his honor backfire.

I’ve been really frustrated with this show and even debated giving up on it but this episode booked me in. A lot of that is because I’d just how good Emma D’Arcy was and how regal and commanding she became the moment she put her crown on. That whole sequence between her receiving the crown and then walking into the…

I’m with you: The season was excellent, extremely well acted, was far more true to the staging and lore of the books than most of GOT- just those awful Valeryon wigs. The first season of GOT wasn’t particularly good, neither was most of the second until past the halfway point. And we all know what happened after…

My (rather generous) read on Alicent and Viserys’ final interaction is that Alicent knows he wasn’t specifically talking about naming their Aegon king in his delirium, but in that moment she also saw the path to power she and her father had been grasping at for over a decade. It was not a misunderstanding, it was a…

she pulls her stillborn child out of her own body in a gratuitously gruesome sequence that’s nonetheless masterfully acted by Emma D’Arcy.

In GOT who was it that said, “They are dragons, they can never be tamed”?

It was Jace’s idea, not Corlys’, for him and Luke to go treat with the Baratheons, Arryns, and Starks. The whole point of them going was that dragonback would be the fastest way for member’s of Rhaenyra’s faction to reach the other great houses so bringing along knights would have completely defeated the purpose of…

Sir, go back to Wendy’s.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. 

He must’ve hit traffic coming out from under his bridge.

Disseminating hyperbolic stories about people passing out during horror movies or posting “doctors” by the auditorium for distressed audiences is an age-old hype technique. And judging by the ages and tweet history of some of these “fans…” this is just another iteration of the same thing.