Seriously, it gets better. I expected fun, popcorn stuff, and it actually rose well above that for me. I can't wait for the second season.

Pam stole the idea for Fangtasia from Ginger? Billith Christ on a cracker, I cannot!

I KNOW, RIGHT?

I never expected to feel horrified sympathy for Ginger. But that flashback to her first entering the video store, looking for vampire movies her professor recommended, all earnest and geeky and stoked about her college class about monsters and the role of the Other in society? She just needed to be wearing a black velvet dress and have big deathrock hair and she would have been me.

I've always sort of felt horrified on Ginger's behalf considering how many times it seemed she had been mind wiped, but I'm glad they gave her an interesting back story for the final season. Even if all those scenes only seem to have been written to establish the tunnel under Fangtasia.

Jilli, are you all caught up now?

We're ... 2 episodes behind, I think? We just watched ep4, and my pusher hasn't delivered the latest episodes (OR THE REST OF PENNY DREADFUL WHICH I NEED LIKE CHOCOLATE AND AIR).

I felt horrified by the fact that Ginger's brain had obviously turned to mush because of the repeated glamouring. But showing she was an earnestly geeky vampire lore nerd? I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE.

(Seriously, Pete started snickering at that point. And the next flashback with her hearse and the stereo playing Bauhaus? Yeah, I recognize that funhouse mirror reflection.)

Did everyone work out what was Ethan's deal before the finale reveal? I was sure I was paying attention, and I read just now about him leaving the play when they introduced the werewolf, as well as interacting with them at the zoo, but neither of those stuck and it startled the shit out of me.

I just realised I'm confusing the Pinkerton guys who are (were, I'll assume) following him with the guys leaning on Leonard in Fargo (I'm just at S5, maybe more people lean--the ALS pair). But thank god the Native American guy can speak.

Game of Thrones actor JJ Murphy dies four days into filming

That is sad, but also kind of amazing.

Yeah. And I wonder if not replacing him means that another character will get bumped up to do what Ser Denys Mallister did in the storyl.

Also, the Chicago Tribune piece I read (and listened to) described Ser Denys Mallister as the oldest member of the Night's Watch which is just wrong.

Clearly, Maester Aemon is older.

So...in Penny Dreadful, did the gay kiss go anywhere? I wasn't paying entire attention, I guess, because it seemed to come out of nowhere and have no impact.