Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about gun violence in America and the attempt to place blame on video games, TV shows, movies, and music.

We’re celebrating the end of an era with Game of Thrones Finale Superlatives! Congratulations class of 2019, we made it! What a ride! K.I.T. and have a great summer, XOXO.

The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones (“The Bells”) was certainly something, all right. And it’s elicited some of the most annoying takes the internet has seen in a long time. Let’s count them down!

While we’re still recovering from episode 5, here’s your analysis of the shade that was thrown in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones…ever!

This week: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, L.A.’s Finest, 9-1-1, The Bold Type, Chicago Med, For the People, See You Yesterday, Catch-22, Nailed It!, Still Laugh-In, Killing Eve, Game of Thrones

Well this certainly was the episode that launched a thousand think-pieces. But you didn’t come here for that. You came for the shade, and shade we shall provide.

This week: 9-1-1, Into the Badlands, The Bold Type, Chicago Med, Lucifer, For the People, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Easy, Wine Country, The Society, Doom Patrol, Killing Eve, Game of Thrones.

There was so much literal “shade” in this episode, it was hard to even tell what was going on at times! But that won’t stop us from trying…

This week: 9-1-1, Into the Badlands, The Bold Type, The Act, For the People, Dead to Me, Tuca & Bertie, Knock Down the House, Doom Patrol, Killing Eve, Game of Thrones

Part #2 of “Shade of Thrones”, our new series examining all the Shade in the Seven Kingdoms.