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The best series finales ever “Newhart,” “The Last Newhart,” 1990 “Newhart,” in which Bob Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper, though amiable, was less memorable than its predecessor, “The Bob Newhart Show.” And, indeed, the show was, in its final minutes, dismissed as ancillary to “The Bob Newhart Show,” when Newhart woke up to his “Bob…
Look, movie villains’ plans never make perfect sense. That’s the price we pay so we can watch our heroes foil them with explosions and clever witticisms, and it’s a price we pay gladly. But while we don’t expect our bad guys to be infallible geniuses, we at least expect them to not be actively tripping…
The Cannes Film Festival is reportedly not allowing women into screenings if they’re wearing flat shoes. I’m not sure I could’ve come up with a better metaphor for sexism in the film industry if I was really, really trying. If you wrote this into a novel about sexism in the film industry, it would seem…
Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) on Game of Thrones. Courtesy of Helen Sloan/HBO Another season of Game of Thrones, another Internet rage-fest over having to witness another major female character suffer a rape. For many fans who were appalled at the horrible scene of Jaime Lannister raping his sister/lover Cersei last season,…
Warning: This article is full of details from Season 5, Episode 6 of Game of Thrones, titled “Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken.” Don’t read it unless you’re prepared to be spoiled and are ready for a frank discussion of a particularly upsetting episode of Game of Thrones. Did they really need to go there on Game of…
If you watch enough prestige television, you come to realize that the most traumatic thing that could possibly happen to a man is having to suffer the pain of a woman he knows getting raped. It’s not, actually, the most traumatic thing to happen to a woman, likely because it happens all the fucking time,…
At this point, it’s disingenuous for anyone to complain about Game of Thrones being too violent or disturbing—the series’ five seasons have had a fair share of rape scenes and tremendous acts of violence—but the final frames of last night’s episode, “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” were emblematic of everything that has become so off-putting about this…
Spencer Kornhaber, Christopher Orr, and Amy Sullivan discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Orr: First, a brief victory lap. In this space two weeks ago, I suggested that Bronn would be a big fan of the easy-listening Westerosi standard “The Dornishman’s Wife.” And when we re-encountered Bronn tonight, what was he singing? Yep,…
(As the headline implies, this post discusses plot points from last night’s episode of Game Of Thrones.) In case you haven’t heard, the final scene of last night’s episode of Game Of Thrones delivered something that fans of the show have been dreading since actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the show, teased…
Lena Headey is a powerful actress. Whether she’s playing a time-traveling momma, or Ma-Ma, you can’t help but be captivated by her when she’s on screen. Headey, of course, also stars as Cersei Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones and was one of the actors involved in a scene making some major waves with fans….