We watched EP1 S2 yesterday, but I was unable to avoid any spoilers about EP2 today.
Feh.
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The NYT was spoiler city.
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The internets are spoiler planet.
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I’ve managed to avoid spoilers for S2E2 so far. Also, my subscription for the channel that is showing TLOU in the UK ran out a few days ago and I haven’t renewed as my son has important school tests coming up. But based on your reaction to the episode, I feel like I need to renew my subscription immediately. Ahhhhh…
It was quite an episode.
I wish I hadn’t looked, bc as usual I couldn’t recall whether we watched more than the first.
Foque.
Sinners (2025) - dir. Ryan Coogler
This is a banger. If you like horror movies, stop reading now and just go see it. Especially if you have somehow NOT seen spoilers in the later trailers or reviews.
More info? Ok.
Michael B. Jordan and Michal B. Jordan are (is?) ‘Smoke’ and ‘Stack’, two young men in 1930’s Mississippi, raised by sharecroppers. After serving in WWI, and a stint working for Al Capone in Chicago, they have returned home with enough cash and bootleg liquor to open their own juke joint, with booze, music, and gambling. . “For us, by us”, they say. They want to serve their own community, currently in the midst of the Jim Crow era. They are fairly hardened gangsters, unflinching about using threats and violence to get their way. Along with them is their young cousin, Preacher Boy Sammy, whose pastor father deeply disapproves of Sammy playing blues guitar for a bunch of gamblin’, drinking’, fornicatin’ sinners. But when some Irish folk-song singing white folks want to crash their party, things get very bloodsucker-y.
The film runs an indulgent 137 minutes, but Coogler has packed this film just full to the brim with layers of substance. It’s a great horror film, with blood and scares some fabulous monstrous set pieces. It’s also full of Black history, absolutely AMAZING music, and ancient culture, making some unsubtle (but very accurate) points about America’s questionable commitment to ‘equality’ and ‘freedom’. Much like Watermelon Woman (1996) or the recent Universal Language, Sinners can be enjoyed for merely the straightforward narrative, which is tremendous fun and handled expertly, AND provides topics for days worth of talking about the social and political points and historical exactness of it.
It’s not flawless. The run time is, as stated, indulgent. Themes are occasionally just flat out pronounced by characters. It’s not exactly an example of nuance. But these are minor quibbles.
A specific shout out should go to the production design and costume team for some really beautiful work, and especially music supervisor and composer Ludwig Göransson, whose soundtrack is a character in itself, full of American blues and traditional influences from around the world. And be sure to stay for the credits, featuring a number by blues legend Buddy Guy.
4/5 musicians so good they can summon the devil.
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Yes, I want to see it… which is why I didn’t read your post 
One spoiler today is enough.
Major game of thrones vibes
Walking dead is the easy comparison, but I was thinking whitewalkers when everyone suddenly turned
Yes, between that and offing a major character, a la Ned Stark.
Aside from the whitewalker swarm, I was thinking of when Oberyn gets killed. I think they had her stab him and not smash his head in with the golf club she was beating him with already because it would be too much to have his head smashed in twice 
Did you see that Coogler held out for an “unheard of” (except not bec Lucas & Tarantino) deal – first-dollar gross, final cut, ownership rights reverting to him after 25 years.
I totally forgot that even happened.
how HOW?! 
I binged that show, and a fair number of events just disappeared from my memory altogether.
Same, but also certain ones were seared in 
I tend to remember women better than men. Olenna Tyrell’s machinations. Daenerys Targaryen’s descent into madness.
Loved
That last scene 
And the lunch with Sansa, when she briefed Margaery on Joffrey.
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The poison kiss
