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The cheesy, terrible dragon flying scene was sort of predicted by an Australian TV cult hero (he mashes TV/movie scenes with political goings-on) when he combined the wall destroying scene from last season's finale with The Neverending Story. It's all I could think about when watching it. https://youtu.be/lun3MCpZA48

I appreciated 'After Life'. I couldn't like it because I found the subject matter hard going at the moment but I enjoyed most of the tertiary characters. I liked 'Derek' mostly too though. My personal context is worlds away from anyone discussing it on the podcast so maybe that accounts for a different interpretation. No arguments that Gervais can be a self-indulgent wanker however! And now I feel self-indulgent for typing this!

Kat and Jocelyn were great guests - looking forward to tracking down their podcast. Alyssa Sutherland (mentioned as appearing in an upcoming 'SVU') is not one of 'the' Sutherlands. She's an Australian model turned actress. I know this because she won a modelling comp for a teen magazine here and I was thrilled when a popular mean girl told me I looked like her. After reading the 'Vikings' forums, I see that her looks are pretty divisive so it was probably an insult!

Thank you for the Game Time Raymond - I especially love the quizzes that require a bit of word play. My husband says I don't laugh enough so he was thrilled to hear my reaction to the Perfect Strangers clue.

I'm an Australian who has never watched 'Rake' but have family and friends who enjoy it. I don't think it's my jam but I thought that about 'Outlander' and now I'm considering giving it a crack. Sadly the TalkBack radio host inspires race riots storyline was ripped from the headlines here https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-02/tribunal-rules-alan-jones-incited-hatred/4292052 On 'Bodyguard', as a viewer of the UK 'The Office', it was impossible not to yell "there's been a rape up there" or other lines every time Mike was on the screen.

As an Australian, Michael's attempt at the accent was better than whatever the actress playing Simone was trying to do. It really took me out of the show so I hope there's a good explanation for it - not like there isn't a lot of Australian actors they could have cast. Worse for me was looking on Twitter to see if the accents were really bothering anyone else only to find a whole heap of Americans shocked that Australia isn't all white people.

I was waiting for Windward Circle the entire game time - very lucky for Tara to get it as the last question. There's another possible episode for the Nonac. The worst part of it was an actress (Sherilyn Fenn) they later brought back as another character who is possibly the worst part of the whole series and I'm pretty sure there was a lot of Miss Celine as well. I'm glad Alex Borstein won an Emmy this year but I still find it hard to look past that role.

The five months thing threw me especially considering how much Iris Apatow as Arya has aged!

The book with John's essay is called 'Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars". There is at least one copy on a bookshelf in regional Australia (spoiler: it's mine).

Well, Landry's a dick here. I enjoyed it; I love thinking being proven wrong when I think I've figured out where something is going which Black Mirror does to me consistently.

I was so excited to hear Tara discuss 'Rosehaven' - it's amazing. As an Australian, Celia Pacquola is a national treasure. Daniel and Emma's friendship is definitely platonic (4 episodes into season 2 and not even a whiff of this changing).

The audio of Duncan attacking the car sounded like a 'grunty' tennis player. Since racquets aren't made of wood anymore, I can't think of an appropriate pun.

Was Debbie keeping Frannie in a cat carrier whilst she worked?

I found the whole Haaron 'redemption arc' to be in line with his character - everything was a calculated act and he could justify all of his behaviour (even the most heinous) because of his past and the occasional good deed. Or maybe I, like others, loved HH's performance so much I totally fanwanked it.

Due to geographical challenges, we originally viewed this episode in a format that required me to check the quality before we started watching. The bit that I randomly clicked to was 'the kiss'. Instead of being annoyed at such a spoiler, I was captivated by it and watched it over and over (and pretended to be surprised when I watched with my husband later). The music, the cheesy crane shots, the acting...all perfect! I wasn't ever really a Logan fan but it was a great moment.

I watched the first episode and really enjoyed it. As a former high school teacher, where finding short, stubby dicks drawn on surfaces was the bane of my existence in one job (when drawn on chairs, some students would refuse to sit on them *sigh*), it really spoke to me! The actor playing Dylan is delightfully deadpan; I wonder if there are some great outtakes of him just losing it? Looking forward to the rest of the series.

That dummy baby the preacher was carrying to the water was so unconvincing I focused on that to take away from the horror of him "drowning" his son. I enjoyed this too; I'm glad I didn't let a couple of poor reviews turn me off. Jason Bateman's standard dry delivery was perfect here. I also liked that there was a certain 'realness' with some of the casting - Ruth and her cousins look like age appropriate and a special shout out to Laura Linney's ugly wardrobe - a couple of those shirt dresses and the jacket in the last episode were criminally awful.

As the mother of a son with ASD, I found the show at times heartbreaking, reaffirming and highly irritating. Most of my irritation was directed at Elsa - the affair storyline was too much. The group she attended was also my worst nightmare. I liked Casey and her boyfriend (Gavin's blood boy from 'Silicon Valley'!) - hopefully she goes to the private school next season. Not being American I don't get a lot of how schools there work but if she's going next year, won't Sam be just about done with school then? When do kids start applying for college - Sam seemed to have the academic results to progress to post- high school study?

Because a TV network in Australia is showing Dawson's Creek at lunchtime (the greatest thing to happen to me as a stay-at-home mum) I can attest to the fact that Jack does kiss Gayoda who then promptly rejects him as he's back with his ex Brad. It was on last week, as was the episode with the Dawson cry-face, so it was a pretty good week of lunches for me.

Mike McKean is a massive snub. He is incredible as Chuck. Alexis Bledel's nomination is a pleasant surprise - her performance solidified for me that it's mostly Rory I dislike in GG rather than her acting. They need to stop nominating House of Cards (Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are basically robots now) and Uzo Aduba.

I'm too festively plump for my 'Always take Backup' shirt (sorry about the fire mwcherry). This episode is definitely one of the weakest of the series for me. The stuntcastee and her plastic hair worried me at the time as I'd loved the pilot so much.

Wig cop has needed to check in on this show for Danny flashbacks since season 2, but they seemed particularly needed here. Ben Mendelsohn's been in so many films recently; I guess he had more closely cropped hair in them all.

The crooked coroner announced the estimated time of death - as you say, Marco would have been dead a lot longer in order for Kevin to traverse the country side breaking down to his mother, Roy and John along the way. I'd imagine the coroner has lied to the police in similar ways for Roy plenty of times. I was watching youtube videos of Norbert Leo Butz and he seems so confident and charasmatic - playing Kevin must be a blast for him.

I have wondered whether Debbie's fiancé is pulling a long "slow-Donnie" type con but that's probably too low and far-fetched even for Shameless (although: Frank). I guess Lip has to find another way to scam the big guys now. I think the only useful thing about Frank now is to provide the parallels of his personality to Lip's

I think they only put one 'r' in embarrass but perhaps that's the latent teacher in me and my extreme dislike for little girls that whisper. Yep, as an Aussie we were definitely using sunscreen in the 80s. I remember Mum making sure to buy 15+ and not 4 or 8 SPF. The photo confused me too and I saw it as perhaps the twist or clue for this episode.