Rodgers teased fans last week, claiming he’d appear in the series’ penultimate episode “The Bells.” After the episode aired, fans shared Rodgers’ cameo on social media — but not everyone agreed with the call.
Fans have narrowed down Rodgers’ cameo to two scenes. In the first, he was spotted as an archer of the Lannister army preparing for the battle over King’s Landing. Fans said he is standing in formation third from the right.
But others say they spotted the two-time NFL MVP while Daenerys Targaryen rides atop her last remaining dragon, Drogon, and burns the city and its people, including Rodgers.
Fans also posted footage of Rodgers in full costume and on set giving a description of his cameo for the episode's "making of."
“I was helping a woman who was injured, set her down, and then, the hell with her, I’m getting outta there,” Rodgers said.
But in either role, the 35-year-old’s fate most likely remained the same as Daenerys and Drogon destroyed King’s Landing, turning many of the soldiers and civilians in the city to ash with dragons breath.
While it was unclear whether Rodgers made multiple appearances in the episode, the self-proclaimed “King of the North” posted on Instagram a photo of himself in costume with a message thanking the show.
“It was just for a few seconds, but I’ll always be thankful to have been on the penultimate episode of @gameofthrones,” Rodgers wrote.
And it's not just fans who are living and breathing the drama, after a number of celebrities reacted to the revelations by unfollowing James Charles across his platforms. Oh wow.
In it, Tati calls James out for endorsing a rival supplement company to her own, despite claiming to be her best friend, before detailing a number of shocking claims - such as accusing James of "using his fame, power and money" in his personal relationships.
James has since lost over three million subscribers on YouTube, and over one million on Instagram, with Metro claiming a number of celebrity faces had pressed the unfollow button since the story unfolded.
The Kardashian-Jenners
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Kylie Jenner, who has previously collaborated with James on a YouTube video on his channel, was one of the first to unfollow the influencer, with sister Kim Kardashian following closely behind. A quick search of James's followers will show that none of the Kardashian-Jenners currently follow him - including Khloe, Kourtney, Kendall or Kris.
Demi Lovato
in December 2018, James shared a photo alongside Demi Lovato with the caption, "Just a quick Saturday glam", surprising friends with their unlikely friendship. Only, er, maybe not anymore, as Demi fails to follow James right now.
Ariana Grande
The Whisp report Ari has also clicked the unfollow button on James's profile, which is unsurprising considering how out spoken she often is about social issues.
Jeffree Star
Despite being YouTube BFFs once upon a time, Jeffree Star has unfollowed James on both Twitter and Instagram, after sharing a number of cryptic tweets
Miley Cyrus
2016 James Charles loved a Miley Cyrus style space bun, but it looks like 2019 Miley isn't into the new James, after she unfollowed him this week - despite their appearance at the Met Gala last Monday.
Shane Dawson
If you're clued up on the YouTube community, you'll be sipping. All. The. Tea. at the fact Shane Dawson not only hung out with Tati last week (as she discusses in her video), but has also unfollowed James on social media, too. AGH.
Katy Perry
Yep. While Katy and James have previously been CoverGirl ambassadors together, and she even shared a snap of them on Instagram together, the singer has singer unfollowed the YouTuber.
Other celebrities who have unfollowed the YouTuber include Shawn Mendes and Iggy Azalea, while fellow influencers Laura Lee and The Dolan Twin have followed suit. While James currently has 15.3million followers and the likes of Gigi Hadid, Lana Condor and Millie Bobby Brown still follow him, it's highly likely that others might follow suit.
We got our first major character kill before Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow left Dragonstone, which in more ways than one was an omen of things to come. In this Song of Fire and Ice, it turns out we should have been more worried about the fire than the ice.
Varys
In episode 4, The Last of the Starks, Varys confided in Tyrion Lannister his concerns about Daenerys' temperament. Jon is a more able ruler, he said, and Daenerys is proving herself less stable. They should replace her, he argued.
Episode 5 opens with a followup to this thread. The gang is all back at Dragonstone following last week's unproductive King's Landing confrontation with Cersei, which ended zero wars and left one Missandei dead, and Varys tries to tell Jon that he, not Daenerys, should sit on the Iron Throne.
Tyrion tells Daenerys about Varys' betrayal. We see Daenerys is in a bad state; bags under her eyes, frazzled hair, looking sickly. Times are bad. Daenerys says Jon and Tyrion are both also at fault. Jon, against Daenerys' orders, told Sansa about his true identity, and Tyrion, once hearing it from Sansa, told Varys.
Thankfully for Tyrion, the punishment wasn't doled out evenly. He got a stern talking to ("the next time you fail me will be the last time you fail me") while Varys got execution by fire. He was led from his quarters by the Unsullied to Dragonstone's shores, where he was sentenced to die. Varys tells Tyrion he hopes he's wrong about Daenerys, then Drogon gets his dracarys on.
The realm will miss you, Varys.
Euron Greyjoy
We went quite a while between character deaths. Between Varys and Euron Greyjoy, though, there was a whole lot of miscellaneous soldier deaths. The point of last episode was to make you ask, "Will Daenerys be the Mad Queen or will she turn out OK?" She did not turn out OK.
Drogon destroyed the Iron Fleet and overpowered the Lannister Army. Bells were ringing the sweet sound of surrender. Daenerys had previously told Tyrion she wouldn't raze the city if the city surrendered early enough. The surrender came early enough, but wow did Daenerys burn everything down anyway.
As the city was falling, Jaime Lannister was racing to find Cersei. On his way he's confronted by Euron, whose fleet had just been Drogon'd. He asks Jaime if he wants to try and kill another king before they all die, but Jaime isn't interested. Then Euron mentioned that he slept with Cersei and it was immediately on.
The two scuffled, and Euron stabbed Jaime twice in the ribs. It looked like ye' ol' Kingslayer was a goner, but he got his second wind and impaled Euron against a rock.
in what world does it make sense that jaime gets to kill euron when YARA STILL EXISTS
Qyburn, the disgraced ex-maester and (now former) Hand of the Queen to Cersei was killed by his own creation.
As defeat became obvious, Qyburn tried to rush Cersei to safety. The Red Keep was crumbling. Their party, containing Cersei, Qyburn, Ser Gregor Clegane and a bunch of guards, was running down a staircase as the walls and ceilings were falling. It's around this time that they're confronted by Sandor Clegane.
It. Is. Clegane. Bowl. Time.
Sandor wants Gregor. Gregor wants Sandor. Gregor advances. Qyburn tries to restrain him, telling him to stay by the Queen. Gregor grabs him and, with little more than a flick of the wrist, flings him several feet. Qyburns head smashes against a wall and then smashes open against some jagged stairs.
Cersei promptly exited as inconspicuously as possible.
Sandor Clegane, Gregor Clegane
Cleganebowl finally happened, and it was glorious. With The Red Keep crumbling in flames, and with Gregor removing his helmet and armor to reveal what can only be described as a Vader-esque look, this battle was reminiscent of Obi-Wan versus Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 3.
Gregor started with the high ground, but it was an even match. The two clung swords together. Gregor was stronger but Sandor faster. Our sweet Hound looked to have won when he stabbed The Mountain clean in the gut, but Gregor was unperturbed.
Did we mention that Gregor is literally invincible?
Cleganebowl.
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Gregor beats down Sandor with his massive, genetically-enhanced fists. He strangles his little brother against the wall. Sandor pulls out a dagger and pokes holes into Gregor to no avail. Nothing hurts The Big Guy. Gregor lifts Sandor and tries to split his skull Oberyn Martell-style. Before he can manage it, though, Sandor puts his dagger through Gregor's right eye.
Gregor stumbles back and seems to be injured. But he then stabilizes himself and starts pulling the dagger out like it's nothing. The Hound isn't having it, and tackles his older brother through the wall. The two fall several hundred feet into a pit of Drogon fire.
Rest in power, Hound. Rest in power.
Jaime and Cersei
The Cleganes weren't the only twosome to die together.
Jaime manages to reach his twin sister in the nick of time -- in the nick of time to die together, anyway. Fans have theorized for years that Jaime would be the one to kill Cersei, but nada. Love is love, apparently.
Jaime and Cersei rush into the dungeons, where dragon skulls of old are kept, hoping to escape through to one of King's Landing's backwater bays. Alas, the path is blocked by bricks and debris.
They embrace. Cersei says she wants their child to live. Jaime says they're all that matters. The ceiling falls on top of them.
They shared a womb, now they share a tomb.
The key takeaway from this episode, even above all the deaths, is that Daenerys is now an insane psycho, aka The Mad Queen. Jon was wrong to follow her, Varys was right to doubt her and Arya is almost definitely going to try and kill her.
Throughout its seven-season run, Veep has been one of the most consistent, most densely-packed
comedies around, delivering blistering political satire, the most creative
profanity on TV, and regular acting masterclasses from its talented ensemble. It’s
raked in bucket-loads of nominations and awards so far, including six Emmys for
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and after its well-received final season, it’s likely to
earn several more. It’s also a show centered entirely on politics operating in
a completely different political world than the one it premiered in. It’s hard
to function as a comedic extreme of reality when reality keeps copying your
notes, and pushing to match the current landscape has not always paid off.
Thankfully, while the issues that have peppered season seven are present, the
series finale manages to pull its disparate threads together and deliver a wholly
satisfying, hilariously appropriate ending for one of TV’s funniest, and
darkest, comedies.
The finale picks up at Selina’s party’s nominating
convention, where the electors are split between Selina and Kemi, with Buddy
and Jonah acting as spoilers and preventing either frontrunner from getting the
votes needed to clinch the nomination. The first half of the episode takes
Selina and her team through various ups and downs over course of the convention,
as breaking news, backroom deals, and rekindled scandals change the voting
dynamics. Just as the finale threatens to run off the road, with Jonah and Tom’s
arcs frustratingly contrived and convenient, the episode takes a turn. Ben is
struck down with a heart attack and it’s then, as Selina talks with the
hospitalized Ben, that the finale’s motivations are made clear: Everything else
has been buildup. We are about to witness Selina’s becoming (TM Hannibal). Only Veep could make foreign election interference, (accidental) assassination,
and giving away Tibet mere steps along the primrose path.
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As Ben tells Selina, she knows exactly what she needs to do
if she wants to win, and once she accepts that, the episode kicks into a new
gear. This is pure Selina Meyer, power player, and gosh is Louis-Dreyfus
fantastic in this mode. Selina pulls out all the stops, seemingly spouting off
an impromptu wake-up call to fellow smart woman in politics Michelle, while
actually manipulating her onto Team Selina. She trades away gay marriage to
secure Buddy’s votes, to the horror of Catherine and Marjorie, and she chooses
Jonah as her VP, a move so bold it smacks some sense into Amy and prompts
blasphemy from Kent, “Fuck the numbers!” After a quick digression in the form
of a twist—Jonah doesn’t want to be veep, but he’s doesn’t stand a chance
against Selina and Uncle Jeff both shouting profanities at him and browbeating
him into submission—the episode jumps ahead to a victorious Selina, first at
the convention and then, six months later, in the White House.
There’s one bump in her journey, however. One moment she’s
uncomfortable with. To have a shot at the general, she needs a fall guy for the
Meyer Fund scandal, and this is the big finale play. To earn a payoff as
significant as Selina somehow wrangling the nomination and the presidency once
again, the writers needed to come up with a price, a sacrifice even Selina
would hesitate before making. Clearly the line wasn’t Tibet, or gay marriage,
or any other political platform. It wasn’t Andrew, it wasn’t Marjorie, who
Selina and Andrew already tried to frame, and let’s be honest, it was never
going to be Catherine. No, it had to be Gary. The core of the show, the one
relationship Veep came back to time
and again, the pairing that consistently delivered the series’ best moments,
both comedic
and dramatic. Selina
couldn’t cause this much devastation and come out the other side with Gary,
unscathed. So to secure a scandal-free path through the general, Selina frames
Gary for the embezzlement and he’s whisked away by the FBI from backstage,
moments after applying her Dubonnet lipstick. It’s heartbreaking—for Veep—and exactly the twist of the knife
to save for the series finale.
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The episode jumps ahead six months to show Selina lonely and
isolated in the White House, but still content with her choice, before cutting
ahead once more to Selina’s funeral, 24 years later. It’s a smart setting for
an epilogue, and it gives the writers the chance to say a fond farewell to most
of the characters, while throwing in plenty of fun reveals of where everyone’s wound
up. The hair and makeup teams went to town and most everyone looks great. There’s
plenty of creativity and humor on display, and just the right touch of bitterness
when the now ex-con Gary goes up to Selina’s casket. There are callbacks galore,
along with sight gags, surprises, and the ultimate insult, venerated CBS
anchorman Mike McLintock interrupting his coverage of Selina’s funeral to break
the news that Tom Hanks has died, pivoting entirely to Hanks. It’s just the
right note to end on, a final reminder of just how transitory Selina’s
desperate bid for power and fame will ultimately be, outside of the pain she
caused. The finale has a series of endings and none of them, after Selina’s
read of Michelle, are triumphant. Selina gets what she wants, but in doing so
dooms herself to a miserable, isolated existence. Her only achievement in
office is one she undid herself, and both presidential successors from her
party are more popular and beloved than she. The run-up to the somber,
excellent season five finale gave Selina a moment of grace, as a
group of citizens connected with Selina and told her how much she meant to
them. Selina is nowhere near as lucky here. Her daughter toasts her death with
margaritas and the episode invites the viewers to do the same.
This compelling, pitch-perfect ending goes a long way toward
balancing the wackiness of the first half of the finale, as well as several
questionable plot and character choices earlier in the season. Richard’s scattered
political journey, Gary’s seemingly random need to do more on the campaign, Jonah’s
obsession with algebra, glimpsing Andrew on the street in Oslo, these were each
pieces of a puzzle showrunner David Mandel was building towards. The season may
have suffered a bit for them, but with a finale this strong, those complaints feel
like quibbles. “Veep” not only delivers the classic, horrifyingly obscene,
deliciously inventive comedy fans tune in for, it commits to its tone and point
of view while staying true to its characters and sending them off into their
futures with care. It’s a great end to a great show, and one fans will be able
to look back at fondly for a long time.
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Stray observations
It’s hard to overstate just how good Louis-Dreyfus is here,
particularly once the episode turns. Her performance as Selina rips into
Michelle is wondeful, especially on rewatch, once you know what she’s up to. Tony
Hale is also excellent, filling his moment at the casket with nuanced,
difficult emotions that in no way detract from or clash with the delightful
comedy happening elsewhere during Selina’s funeral.
Each of the ensemble gets a memorable moment or two. They’re
all great, but I have a few favorites. Kent’s insistence that he does have a
favorite number, Euler’s number, pairs nicely with his eventual blow-up. Marjorie
getting pushed past her limit when Selina trades away same-sex marriage is a
blast, and I definitely chuckled at the reveal that both Kemi and Richard went
on to serve two terms in office, and Richard got a Nobel Prize for brokering peace
in the Middle East.
Amy’s heel turn never worked for me, despite her brief reversion
to form here. Her new physicality still feels all wrong, but at least she gets
to spar with Selina.
Speaking of Selina, her costuming is interesting. That
floral dress feels like a very odd choice for her. Once it becomes clear that
she’s off her game, this makes sense and her return from the hospital, focused on
winning at all costs, sees her back in pants, this time in her power color of
red. And of course when she does accept the nomination she’s in a red, body-con
dress.
We finally see what it takes to break Kent, and it’s Jonah
having any political power. That feels right.
SUE! Welcome back, Sufe Bradshaw, just in time. And don’t
think we didn’t see you there in the final flash-forward, Andrew. Well played.
How to pick a final favorite line? There’s the wave of Jonah
insults, Will’s final entries to his canon of horrific follow-ups to
Congressman Furlong, and Selina’s thoughts on choosing Kemi as her vice
president, but for the poignancy of the moment and in honor of Selina and Gary,
I’ll go with Hale’s, “You’d hate the flowers, but I brought the Dubonnet.”
It has been an utter pleasure covering Veep for The A.V. Club
these past five seasons. Thank you to everyone who read along, and thank you to
the entire cast and crew for creating such a consistently entertaining, hilarious
show.
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The beautiful photo of Meghan cradling her baby boy's feet was uploaded to the official Instagram of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Sunday, which is Mother's Day in many countries around the world. The caption featured an excerpt from the poem "lands" by African-American poet Nayyirah Waheed.
The royal couple also used their Instagram account to announce their son's name — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor — and share the first photograph of the baby boy with his grandmother, Doria Ragland, and great-grandparents, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
