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Hulu Is Bringing TGIF Back to Our TV (Er, Computer) Screens … Finally!

Get ready for the best news of your entire day, nay, your entire week – Hulu is bringing TGIF back into our lives!

The streaming service announced on Thursday afternoon at the 2017 Summer TV Press Tour that a groundbreaking agreement has been reached (ugh, finally!) with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, and 800 episodes from TGIF will now be available to stream for the first time in the U.S. … ever. Everyone’s favorite Friday night lineup from the ’90s is officially back, people, and it’s all on demand and at your fingertips. This is not a drill.

The TGIF lineup will be exclusively available on Hulu’s subscription video on-demand service, and includes all episodes – that’s right, you read that correctly. Every. Single. Episode. – of iconic series Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers and Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper.

So mark your calendars: the entire series of all five Warner Bros. comedies will be available beginning on Friday, September 29, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Full House and the 25th anniversary of Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper. Do you feel old yet? Cuz we certainly do. But reliving the glory days of ’90s TV will certainly help with that, right?

“These shows are more than just beloved hits, they were part of a cultural tradition to tune in every Friday night,” Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Content Craig Erwich said. “Now, it can be Friday any day of the week on Hulu.”

Hulu just keeps on adding to their iconic TV show libraries with this announcement. The streaming site is already home to full libraries of fan favorite series like The Golden Girls, Seinfeld and The OC. Honestly, move over Netflix. It’s time to Hulu and chill.

Images: Warner Bros.

The full libraries of the TGIF comedies will be available to stream Friday, Sept. 29 on Hulu.

DOCTOR WHO: A Brief History of Time Ladies

After 36 seasons and a cumulative 54 years on television, the Doctor will be played by a woman for the first time ever. When Jodie Whittaker takes over the iconic lead role in Doctor Who, she’ll represent the first time that particular Time Lord has incarnated as a Time Lady. She is by no means the first Time Lady ever in the series—duh—and some of the Doctor’s closest allies and most fearsome enemies have been Gallifreyan women. Would you like to meet some of the most prominent ones? I bet you would!

NOTE: I’m only going to be talking about Gallifreyan Time Ladies, so the Doctor-Donna, Jenny, and River Song will be left out. Don’t @ me.

Susan Foreman

The Doctor’s very first companion, technically, was his granddaughter, Susan, played by Carole Ann Ford. As the show began, she and the Doctor were hiding out in London in 1963 and her teachers–Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright–became concerned about how she could be so incredibly brilliant in areas of math and science but so laughably unaware of everyday things like what kind of money the U.K. used. This led to them discovering the truth, that Susan and her grandfather were aliens who traveled in time and space.

A main character for the first season and a bit of the second, Susan existed at a time when the series hadn’t come up with much of the mythology surrounding the Doctor. Regeneration was never mentioned, nor was she given more than a few passing references after she left. But, she’s technically a Time Lady, and she had telepathy for like one story because they didn’t know what they were doing yet.

Romana

The next major Time Lady to appear in the series was the Fourth Doctor companion Romanadvoratrelundar, a/k/a Fred, a/k/a Romana. Initially played by the fabulous Mary Tamm, Romana was assigned to travel with the manic Tom Baker Doctor when he was in search for the various pieces of the Key to Time. She was much younger than the Doctor, but often boasted of being much more learned than he. She was one of the first companions who could be as smart as the Doctor, though he could still teach her things from his experiences.

After that season, Tamm decided not to return, so the first part of the following episode had Romana trying on new looks (something I guess Time Lords could do if they wanted) before settling on the look of the previous adventure’s Princess Astra (indeed, actress Lalla Ward who played Astra was cast as Romana). Dubbed Romana II, this incarnation was perhaps the closest to being the Doctor herself, even basically taking the lead in the story “The Horns of Nimon” while Baker’s Doctor played the comedy sidekick. As with many companions, her exit was a bit abrupt and didn’t do justice to the character, but for awhile Romana (who in spin-off material became the Time Lord President) was unmatched.

The Rani

The Doctor’s first Time Lady adversary was the Rani, as played by Kate O’Mara, who appeared in two stories in the 1980s — “The Mark of the Rani” opposite Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor, and “Time and the Rani,” which was Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy’s first adventure. Very unlike the Master, whose aim is almost always causing chaos and particularly sticking it to the Doctor, the Rani was an amoral scientist who thought of humanity as lower lifeforms, perfect for test subjects for her experiments. The only reason she gets on the Doctor’s radar is through the Master’s meddling, in fact, and later she means to use the confused new Doctor to unwittingly aid some of Earth’s greatest thinkers in solving her greatest problem. The Rani’s a pragmatic adversary, and one underserved by the second of her two stories.

Various Authority Figures

There have been surprisingly few Time Ladies overall in Doctor Who, and in between Romana and the Rani, we only got a small handful, usually whenever the Doctor would visit Gallifrey. The first of these was Chancellor Thalia (Elspet Gray) in “Arc of Infinity,” the second was Chancellor Flavia (Dinah Sheridan) in “The Five Doctors,” and the third—with a much bigger part—was the Inquisitor (Lynda Bellingham) who acted as the judge during the season-long “The Trial of a Time Lord.”

That One Lady in “The End of Time”

One of the many, many unexplained things about the Tenth Doctor’s final story is the identity of the Time Lady in white, as played by Claire Bloom. It’s been largely hinted at that writer Russell T. Davies’ original intent was for her to be the Doctor’s never-before-mentioned mother, but it was never mentioned and she was just kind of mysteriously helpful. So who knows?

Time Lords Becoming Time Ladies

The first time we ever heard a full reference of the fluidity of gender and sex in Gallifreyan regeneration was actually 2011’s “The Doctor’s Wife,” in which the Doctor receives a message which he’s led to believe is from his old friend, the Corsair, who is said to have regenerated as both male and female. In the months leading up to the announcement of Jodie Whittaker’s casting, the notion that the Doctor could be played by a woman continued in showing the Time Lord General as played by Ken Bones in “The Day of the Doctor” and “Hell Bent” being shot by the Doctor in the latter episode and regenerating into a woman played by T’nia Miller. Also worth noting, Ken Bones is an old white man, and T’nia Miller is a young black woman.

Missy/The Master

The most prominent Time Lady since the classic series is actually Michelle Gomez’s Missy, who appeared throughout Series 8, the beginning of Series 9, and most of Series 10. Having been male through all of his regenerations up to that point, the Master first (and if continuity is to be believed, only) female incarnation was at once more conniving and more insane, however hearkening back to Roger Delgado’s first incarnation in her desire to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor, something that was largely forgotten until the new series.

Which is your favorite Time Lady? Did I leave any major ones out? (I don’t think I did.) Let me know in the comments below!

Images: BBC

Kyle Anderson is the Associate Editor and the resident Whovian for Nerdist. Follow him on Twitter!

Matt Damon Gets Bloody in Trailer for New Coen Brothers Film, SUBURBICON

What do you get when you have George Clooney direct Matt Damon in a movie written by the Coen Brothers? Based on the first trailer for Suburbicon you get a story where the saccharine world of Pleasantville meets the bloody mayhem of Fargo.

In this initial look at the film the bright idyllic life of Suburbicon quickly turns dark after Matt Damon’s bespectacled, every man-looking dad Gardner pays the ultimate price for getting in too deep with the mob. They kill his wife, but when he doesn’t square up with them they set their sights on his young son. Because this is a Coen Brothers script that’s just the beginning of the bloodshed and violence.

This looks like the mob/common man conflict that defines Fargo set up shop in the sunny, pastel ’50s world of the Coen Brothers’ movie A Serious Man. Only if that movie’s pushover hero, Larry Gopnik, were muscular and stood up for himself with a baseball bat.

It’s hard not to think about past Coen Brothers movies watching this, especially with Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac a part of the cast (and both immediately stealing scenes in the trailer). And if we weren’t told that George Clooney was behind the camera here, we wouldn’t be able to tell the Coens hadn’t directed this themselves.

While we were always optimistic about what this Clooney/Coen/Damon union could produce, we’re really excited to visit a place where Edward Scissorhands would live, and his neighbor was a guy who might beat someone to death with a baseball bat.

Suburbicon comes to theaters this fall, October 27th.

What do you think of this trailer? What other movies does it remind you of? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

Images: Paramount Pictures

The Best GAME OF THRONES, DOCTOR WHO, STAR WARS Cosplay at SDCC is in This Video

There are a lot of cool things about Comic-Con in San Diego, but maybe the coolest is the massive amount of creative cosplay going on each and every year. From Star Wars to Marvel, from DC Comics to Doctor Who, fans from all over the world spent hours upon hours bringing their favorite pop culture characters to life in incredible detail to show off at the world’s best and biggest comic convention.

And it’s not just the well known properties that get the cosplay treatment; I saw a cosplay based on obscure properties like the cult classic sci-fi movie Krull, or nearly forgotten cartoons from the ’80s like Silverhawks—among others even less well known—and it’s all amazing. These cosplayers remind you that everything has a hardcore fan out there somewhere.

Now the good folks at SneakyZebra have uploaded a new YouTube video showcasing the cosplay highlights from the 2017 SDCC. There are of course your requisite Jokers and Harley Quinns, your traditional Super Mario Brothers, Marvel heroes galore, and of course this year’s biggest comic book hero, Wonder Woman.

But the best part are always the creative mash-ups, like the Games of Thrones meet Disney “Snow White Walker.” And if you pause around the 1:50 mark, you can even see YouTube comedy star Jenny Lorenzo in her Cuban Abuelita character, making her first visit to Comic-Con.

You can check out the full music video down below:

What do you think of this year’s batch of amazing SDCC cosplay? And is there anything you saw that was amazing that the Sneaky Zebra folks missed out on? Let us know down below in the comments.

Images: Sneaky Zebra

Weezer Become Guns ‘N Roses in Their “Feels Like Summer” Video

It seems like you’d be hard pressed to find any Guns N’ Roses fans in modern rock music bigger than Weezer. About a month ago, at the Arroyo Seco Festival at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the band took the stage in full GNR garb; Rivers Cuomo in long hair and a bandana, and guitarist Brian Bell in a tall Slash-style top hat. It turns out they were filming that performance and now it’s the basis of Weezer’s new music video for “Feels Like Summer,” which they’ve dubbed the “Roses N’ Weezer Version.”

The clip is a pretty clear homage to Guns N’ Roses classic 1988 video for “Paradise City,” which just features footage of the band in a stadium, playing the song and getting ready and all that sort of rock star stuff. Similarly, Weezer’s video has all the same stuff: Footage of the venue grounds, fans getting into it, backstage footage, and a bunch of other little details, all filmed in a style that’s pretty darn similar to the source material.

The band also has a bunch of tour dates coming up for the rest of the year, so check those out below and let us know in the comments what you think of the new video.

Weezer 2017 tour dates

8/20 – Oro-Medonte, Canada @ The Big Feastival

8/26 – Monterrey, Mexico @ Hellow Music Festival

9/2 – Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot

9/9 – Kansas City, KS @ 96.5 The Buzz’s Beach Ball

9/10 – St. Louis, MO @ LouFest

9/15 – Del Mar, CA @ KAABOO

9/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Music Midtown

9/17 – New York, NY @ The Meadows Music and Arts Festival

10/5 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino

10/6 – Napa, CA @ Silverado Resort and Spa

10/7 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

10/15 – Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle

10/16 – Cologne, Germany @ Ewerk

10/18 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique

10/19 – Paris, France @ Olympia

10/21 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013

10/23 – Leeds, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy

10/24 – Glasgow, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy

10/25 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ O2 Apollo

10/27 – Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy

10/28 – London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Arena

Featured image: Weezer/YouTube

Remembering Animation Legend June Foray (1917-2017)

We’ve had to say goodbye to some truly legendary and beloved figures in entertainment recently, and it’s always a sad and somber affair. Their profound contributions to the cultural zeitgeist and to the childhoods of many people cannot be overstated. This is especially true for iconic voice actor June Foray, who passed away this week at the age of 99, just two months before her 100th birthday. Foray’s voice acting career dates all the way back to radio shows in the 1930s and her first bit of animation came with an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short in 1943. Some 300 acting credits later, and you almost couldn’t have an animated project without her.

Foray is perhaps best known for playing various matronly characters, most notably Granny, the owner of Sylvester and Tweety, in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, taking over the role from fellow Warner Bros voice staple Bea Benaderet in 1955’s Red Riding Hoodwinked. She voiced the character ever since, in film and television. Foray also provided the voice for Witch Hazel, the cackling witch who would cause havoc for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Halloween and horror-themed shorts.

For Disney, she played characters ranging from Lucifer in 1950’s Cinderella all the way to Grandmother Fa in 1998’s Mulan. She was also a staple of the Disney Afternoon television lineup in the ’80s and ’90s, voicing the benevolent Grammi Gummi in The Adventures of the Gummi Bears and both of Duckburg’s great female villains, crime boss Ma Beagle and the fantastically devilish Magica De Spell, in DuckTales.

There are also a great many people who grew up hearing Foray’s voice as iconic characters in Jay Ward’s various Rocky and Bullwinkle projects, as the titular Rocket J. Squirrel and the husky-voiced villain Natasha Fatale opposite Boris Badenov, voiced by fellow animation titan, Paul Frees.

It would be a Herculean task to try to speak about every single one of Foray’s iconic roles, let alone the ones that you definitely know but might not even realize she voiced. Over the years she gave life to the likes of Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Aunt May in the ’80s Spider-Man, Raggedy Ann in a series of shorts, Jokey Smurf on The Smurfs, and more additional voices than you could possibly imagine. She’s been in everything, and did it beautifully for close to 70 years.

Chuck Jones, the most famous animator and director ever to come out of the Looney Tunes bunch, once said of June Foray: “June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc was the male June Foray.” There’s no truer statement on the life and career of a woman whose name should be known to everyone.

Featured Image: Mitch Haddad © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved

Boba Fett, Tarkin, and The Dark Side Meet in This STAR WARS Sleeve

Somewhere in the galaxy, there has to be a Star Wars tattoo sleeve that features characters from the light side. Right? I hope? For now, this rebel is still happy to share ink from the dark side. This intricate and packed sleeve is all about the villains with characters such as Darth Sidious, good ol’ Wilhuff Tarkin, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Count Dooku and more. Look at all the characters:

The sleeve was inked by Tommy Helm from Ink Master and Tattoo Nightmares.

The Star Wars tattoo party continues in the gallery below. Scroll on down to see ink featuring Padmé Amidala (QUEEN!), an elegant take on the Rebel Alliance insignia, a Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher tribute, and more.

If you have nerdy ink on your skin or you’re a tattoo artist that applies pop culture, STEM, music, or other nerd-inspired ink (tl;dr: I want to see basically all of the tattoos–not only Star Wars ones) on a regular basis, then please hit me up because I’d like to highlight you in a future Inked Wednesday gallery. I’m especially interested if you have a sleeve or other large tattoo. You can get in touch with me via email at alratcliffe@yahoo.com. Send me photos of the tattoos you’d like me to feature (the higher resolution, the better) and don’t forget to let me know the name of your tattoo artist if you have it, as well the name of the shop he or she works out of. If you are the tattoo artist, give me links to your portfolios and/or Instagram accounts so I can share them with our readers.

Featured Image: Myk Rudnick

The DEADWOOD Movie is Still Alive! It’s Just Being Developed Super Slowly

Deadwood fans, rejoice! Despite what you may have heard or assumed over the past decade, the revival movie isn’t dead. It’s just moving as slowly as possible. But hey, at least it’s still moving, right?

HBO’s President of Programming Casey Bloys revealed during the 2017 Summer Press Tour that series creator David Milch has officially written a script for the long-awaited revival movie. That’s some good news for the series that went off the air 11 years ago. If there’s a script, there’s a much better chance that it will get made than if there was no script. And if it’s a GOOD script? Well, all the better. At least, that’s what our Deadwood-loving hearts are going to hold on to until there’s more movement on this project.

“I read the script and the one thing I was concerned about is I wanted a script that would stand on its own, that if you were a Deadwood fan it would make you happy and if you had never watched Deadwood, you could still enjoy it,” Bloys said. “I’m happy to say that David totally delivered on that. I think it’s a terrific script.”

But unfortunately, that still doesn’t mean that we can expect the Deadwood movie anytime soon. There are still many more steps that need to be taken before we get to revisit the Western drama, long considered to be one of the best drama TV shows ever developed.

“A couple of things: if we can do it for a budget that makes sense for us and find a director, and we’re talking to a few folks, and we can get the cast together which is no easy task because everybody is kind of all over the place, we’re inclined to do it,” Bloys said. “But we have to get over those hurdles. But as I said, the good news was the script was terrific.”

Deadwood was an American Western drama that ran for three seasons from 2004-2006. Set in Deadwood, South Dakota, it starred Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Kim Dickens, and Anna Gunn, among many others in the ensemble cast. While the series was fictional, it was based on actual accounts from Deadwood residents in the 1870s about the history of the town from before and after the annexation by the Dakota Territory, and dealt with real issues like violence, immigration, prostitution, race, politics and misogyny.

The HBO series received a ton of critical acclaim, winning eight Emmys and one Golden Globe during its short run. Widely regarded as a series canceled way too soon because of some behind-the-scenes drama, there have been talks of reviving Deadwood with two made-for-TV movies since its cancelation in 2006. The talks have been going on for over a decade, and back in 2015 began again. This is the slowest moving project in Hollywood for sure, but it’s reassuring that the premium cabler hasn’t given up on it out of impatience. The fans certainly haven’t!

What do you think of this Deadwood revival movie news? Are you optimistic that it will actually happen, or is this a case of crying wolf too many times? Tweet me at @SydneyBucksbaum, and let’s discuss!

Images: HBO

Will Jared Leto Quit Playing The Joker?

Rumors are circulating that Jared Leto, star of Suicide Squad, might be leaving the DCEU in favor of another comic-book movie, Bloodshot. Joining Host Jessica Chobot today on Nerdist News Talks Back are Nerdist News writer Joan Ford and the other half of Bizarre States, Andrew Bowser, otherwise known as the yin to Jessica’s yang. In addition to Leto, they discuss Justice League and its mustache problems, as well as The Flash film that will spin from it, sans-mustache.

First up is Justice League, a movie that has seen multiple tonal shifts since its reveal last year, especially since Zach Snyder’s decision to hand the film off to Joss Whedon due to a death in his family. Whedon is known for his lighthearted, quippy characters, which is a direction many fans of the DCEU have been asking the studio to go in. But does the tone fit the universe DC has established? We’re split on that, but you can hear both sides in the video above.

…But you know what would make the tone perfect? A glorious mustache. Superman himself Henry Cavill is rocking a sweet ‘stache while filming Mission Impossible, and his contract forbids him from shaving it to film Justice League reshoots. Yes, that means some of the CGI budget of that film will be devoted to de-hairing Henry Cavill. Amazing.

Another of Justice League‘s stars, the Flash, will be getting his own solo movie, and now we know that it will be called Flashpoint. Flashpoint is The Flash’s most famous comic storyline, in which The Flash travels back in time and goes on adventures with Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas. Whether or not this is a smart move for a character that moviegoing audiences have barely been introduced to, it could provide a way to phase Ben Affleck out of the universe, as he is rumored to want. Luckily, Jessica Chobot is here to explain just that.

Speaking of characters we’ve only just been introduced to, Jared Leto’s Joker might be leaving the DCEU after only a single movie, if Leto’s rumored starring role in Bloodshot is any indication. Reported by Collider, Jared Leto is in talks to join the comic book adaptation, which features a hitman-turned-robot murdering lots of people. If Leto does leave the DCEU, would you rather see a new Joker or no Joker for a while? Maybe Mark Hamill?

You can watch and interact live with Nerdist News Talks Back every weekday at 1:00pm PST on YouTube and Alpha, and catch up with the archives just after the show!

Image: Warner Bros., Rocksteady

HBO Boss Talks GAME OF THRONES Final Season and Spin-Offs, Defends CONFEDERATE

There’s a good news/bad news situation for Game of Thrones fans. The good news? The final season of HBO’s fantasy darling is going to be awesome and gnarly. The bad news? There’s still no word on how long we have to wait to actually see it or the myriad spin-offs the network is developing.

Casey Bloys, President of HBO Programming, faced a room full of reporters at the 2017 Summer TV Press Tour on Wednesday afternoon to give up an update on the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, and his comments sent everyone on a roller coaster of emotions.

“The scripts are written, and I believe [showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss] are boarding it all out in a sense,” Bloys said. “It’s a big season, as with all the seasons, very complicated. So they’re trying to get a sense of how long is it going to take them to shoot this. So I don’t have the answer yet [to when season eight will air]. But they’re working on it.”

He also confirmed that no existing Game of Thrones characters will appear on any of the four spin-off series that are in development, so there goes any hope that Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) or Jon Snow (Kit Harington) will live on past the original series and show up again after Game of Thrones ends.

Bloys then had to go on the defensive when it came to the Thrones showrunners next series, the recently announced Confederate. The modern day slavery drama from Game of Thrones‘ Benioff and Weiss drew immediate criticism from press and the public alike for its tone-deafness. However, Bloys believes that if the producers could have just explained their idea for the show right away, that would have put everyone at ease. Hmmm…

“Let me first say about Confederate is obviously we’ve been thinking about it. File this under hindsight is 20/20,” he said. “If I could do it over again, our mistake — HBO’s mistake not the producers — was the idea that we would be able to announce an idea that is so sensitive and requires such care and thought on the part of the producers in a press release, was misguided on our part. If I had to do it over again, what I would do to introduce the idea is what we ended up doing after the fact with the four producers, which is to have them sit with journalists.”

Since the HBO brass “had the benefit of sitting with” the producers, they “heard why they wanted to do the show, what they were excited about, why it was important to them, so we had that context.”

“But I completely understand that someone reading the press release would not have that at all,” Bloys said. “If I had to do it over again, I would have rolled it out with the producers talking on the record so people understood where they’re coming from. We assumed the response. All the producers, we assumed it would be controversial. I think we could have done a better job with the press roll out. We knew the idea would be controversial so I guess we thought it would be a little bit more a standard, ‘here’s the press release, what are the questions,’ but what we realized in retrospect was that people don’t have the benefit of the context for the conversations with the producers that we had.”

Bloys emphatically revealed that “the producers have said they’re not looking to do Gone With the Wind 2017. It’s not whips and plantations. It’s what they imagine a modern day institution of slavery would look like.” And despite the overwhelmingly negative response, HBO is betting on the talent of the producers to make Confederate a hit.

“We have long history of betting on our talent. We’re going to stand behind them,” Bloys said. “My hope is that people will judge the actual material as opposed to what it could be or should be or might be. And we will rise or fall based on the quality of that material. These four writers are at the top of their game. They could do anything they want and this is what they feel passionately about. So I’m going to bet on that.”

Bloys recognizes that “this is weapons grade material we’re dealing with.”

“Everyone understands that there is a high degree of difficulty with getting this right. But the thing that excites them and that excited us is that if we can get it right, there is a real opportunity to advance the racial discussion in America,” explained Bloys. “If you can draw a line between what we’re seeing in the country today, voter suppression, mass incarceration, lack of access to quality public education or health care, and draw a direct line between that and our past and our shared history, that’s an important line to draw and would be a conversation worth having. So it is very difficult, they acknowledge there is a high degree of difficulty, but again they all feel and we support them that it’s a risk worth taking.”

What do you think about the Game of Thrones updates for the final season and the spinoffs? Does HBO’s defense of Confederate put you at ease, or are you still wary of the project? Tweet me at @SydneyBucksbaum, and let’s discuss.

Images: HBO