While a basic Thrones competition may pit backstabbing character against backstabbing character or bloody death against bloody death, we got to the heart of the HBO blockbuster: its sex scenes.
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The backstabbing mood of the film was reflected on set.
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Following a backstabbing comment on Krystal's part, Kendall didn't attack.
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Political backstabbing, socially undermining someone, publicly belittling others, and ostracism.
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Iaconetti puts it more bluntly: "She's a backstabbing whore," she says.
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Caila ruined everything and she's a backstabbing WHORE of a friend!!!
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Caroline forgave him, but started comparing herself to her backstabbing BFF.
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This isn't a story with double crosses and backstabbing and espionage.
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This boss had a reputation for corporate backstabbing and political coercion.
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The political machinations, lying, and backstabbing are all so damn thrilling.
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This series is about so much more than behind-the-scenes backstabbing.
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Also in the trailer, Ashley tearfully alleges that she frequently witnesses backstabbing.
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On the Apprentice, she was known as the backstabbing, loving, conniving villain.
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Apparently, very divisive, causing trouble all the time, backstabbing people, achieving nothing.
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You don't have to worry about someone backstabbing you or blindsiding you.
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It's supposed to be romantic, but comes off as creepy and backstabbing.
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They were all backstabbing bitches who'd rob you sooner than help you.
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Still, the struggle for influence and backstabbing in the press is undeniable.
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The Roy family in Succession, for instance, is a monstrous, backstabbing, beastly unit.
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"You don't make plus-size dollars anymore, you make backstabbing dollars," wrote another.
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The digital underground is full of fragile alliances, backstabbing, and full-blown rivalries.
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"It's a backstabbing move," Aydin tells Goldschneider, who appears to deny the accusation.
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This is a place for friendly competition, not one for backstabbing and manipulation.
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All of it: the bullshit backstage, the backstabbing, the constant navigation of egos.
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It's a peculiar decision, considering the florid history of backstabbing between the two.
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Most people should find it nothing more than inside the Beltway political backstabbing.
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Magic Johnson identifies Rob Pelinka is the person who was backstabbing him. pic.twitter.
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WITH all its conflict, backstabbing and deception, politics has a natural drama to it.
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The history of paleontology is full of tales of bribery, backstabbing, and double-dealing.
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But when information is everywhere, some things are better left buried. Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations.
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"Backstabbing has broken out in the opposition, all against all," crowed Maduro earlier this week.
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What price has President Trump paid for the trail of insults, the backstabbing, the disloyalty?
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Drag can be a tough world of intrigue and backstabbing drama—much like the monarchy!
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I'm here for the royal visit and all the backstabbing, badmouthing that comes with it.
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Rachel's missed her shot at being the showrunner, and Quinn finds out about her backstabbing.
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Ghosn slams 'backstabbing' former Nissan colleagues in video address A defiant Carlos Ghosn accused "backstabbing" former colleagues of conspiring to oust him as Nissan chairman and threatening the Japanese automaker's future, in a video marking his first public address since his initial arrest last year.
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That would be a total Littlefinger move, but Sansa did learn about backstabbing from the best.
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Despite all the backstabbing, Williams has served on Twitter's board from the beginning, totaling 12 years.
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Afterward, Gregg didn't cop to his backstabbing and simply slid out of the room, silently ashamed.
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However, their old president made all the headlines with accusations of backstabbing by his former subordinate.
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That perspective is shared by many former VA officials who describe a culture of backstabbing there.
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"The machinations, the backstabbing, the hideous caricatures and slurs were just devastating," historian Joan Waugh told CNN.
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His downfall, as well as an expanding narrative of corporate intrigue and backstabbing, has been followed avidly.
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BACKSTABBING Ghosn was arrested at a Tokyo airport shortly after his private jet touched down on Nov.
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Some workplaces reek of the politics, backstabbing, and self-promoting behavior that becomes an unwritten success manual.
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One of the most frequent forms of backstabbing is going over someone's head to solve a problem.
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Ghosn has accused his former Nissan colleagues of "backstabbing" and conspiring to oust him as chairman of Nissan.
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Family strife ensues, over-the-top wealth is on display, soapy backstabbing occurs, and incredible food is consumed.
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We all wanted to win and get the million dollars — but I don't think there was much backstabbing.
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Jared had been talking to Ashley, who'd had all afternoon to tell him what a "backstabbing whore" Caila was.
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Just because I have success doesn't mean that my heart has healed from the pain, from all the backstabbing.
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But I still wanted more of the political intrigue and backstabbing that's always been core to the show's conceit.
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I feel like that's not something we see a lot of on TV. Often, there's a lot of backstabbing.
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In terms of your pitch to publishers as sort of this inside tale of backstabbing and ... So it's interesting.
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Audiences can expect to see backstabbing, cheating allegations and strip golf — yes, strip golf — in the upcoming premiere season.
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And she&aposs saying this White House is very chaotic, backstabbing, and that&aposs why she was taping people.
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" The voiceover then chimes in to promise betrayal and backstabbing this season, saying, "You're supposed to watch your back!
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We've grown accustomed to a Westeros ruled by the cutthroat "win or you die" backstabbing of the royal court.
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And to unpack all of the drama, backstabbing, and poor hairstyle choices, we're going to cover it no differently.
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Yet she also remembers what followed: "The insults, the backstabbing and the lies" Obama faced during his two terms.
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"It would change what people should say, what people shouldn't say, how unusual is betrayal and backstabbing," he said.
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Mr. Gardley's play is a time-bending riff on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," with a similar clutch of backstabbing conspirators.
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Woodward describes how Trump viewed this as a backstabbing betrayal by someone he hoped would shield him from trouble.
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In an interview on Fox News earlier in the day, Mr. Scaramucci complained about leaks and Washington's backstabbing culture.
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"It's amazing the amount of backstabbing and just the really nasty behavior that goes on with people," said Burke.
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Unfortunately, he squandered that privilege & turned that opportunity into a nightmare of backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying & undermining the President.
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Danny McBride plays an eccentric, backstabbing midlevel drug dealer, and Rosie Perez portrays a crooked cop conspiring with the murderer.
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We're sure that Tennessee's problems are a little bit easier to deal with than murder, backstabbing, and social climbing, however.
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"Most employees would rather get direct criticism from their manager than face a seemingly pleasant, but backstabbing boss," Taylor explains.
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And like any good politician, Payton is certainly not averse to lying, backstabbing, or cheating to get what he wants.
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It stars a young Derek Jacobi as Claudius, a young real emperor in Rome, and all the conniving and backstabbing.
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But as the days have unfolded, I have been growing more concerned with what the management, backstabbing and infighting also reveal.
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A cryptic message posted yesterday to the DeploraBall website appeared to call out Cernovich, Giesea, and Posobiec for their alleged backstabbing.
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As a result, Labour has been unable to fill the void that the Conservatives, in their jockeying and backstabbing, have left.
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What is won in a pro-wrestling ring is mostly done backstage, in a competition of politics, backstabbing, and ass-kissing.
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Add those infractions to the incessant lying, snitching, backstabbing, and accusations of alcoholism, and yeah...I'm sure you'd be exhausted, too.
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That said, backstabbing the president and his family in a book — Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff — was a terrible mistake.
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But if colleagues are afraid of backstabbing or unable to establish productive working relationships with one another, the environment becomes unbearable.
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This is especially true in the modern era, where the backstabbing which got you real prestige for kayfabe titles has dissipated.
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A militant far right had emerged, who blamed the 1918 defeat on "backstabbing" generals, the influence of Bolshevism (Russian communism), and Jews.
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That was "when [Hannah] started to get in her head," according to Caelynn, and supposedly began a pattern of "deceitfulness" and backstabbing.
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A little comeuppance or closure for DJ. Benicio del Toro's backstabbing hacker character appears without fanfare, and disappears with equally minimal impact.
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If you need a respite from all the chatter about backstabbing and betrayal in Washington, here's what's been going down in Atlanta.
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On a good day, the White House is a totally crazy place with swirling intrigue, backstabbing, leaks, and books by departing staffers.
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While the nonstop backstabbing and perpetual turning of tables can grow tiresome, the flurry of intentional misdirection and outright sabotage works here.
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Also, its satisfying backstabbing will facilitate your sweet revenge on your roommate for not taking the mountain of recycling out last week.
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The series is full of backstabbing and conflict, as competing interests vie for the land, and disputes erupt in the family itself.
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My colleagues were brilliant and fired up, and the atmosphere was collegial, with a minimum of the usual backstabbing and political infighting.
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Ghosn has said he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing "backstabbing" former colleagues of conspiring to oust him as Nissan chairman.
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When Elizabeth comes to him and suggests backstabbing Dan, Alec does a fantastic job of both hearing her out and turning her down.
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Their competition must not like the earlier version in the Trump administration: a "team of rivals," driven by mistrust, backstabbing, and even frontstabbing!
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"The takedown of Travis Kalanick: The untold story of Uber's infighting, backstabbing, and multi-million-dollar exit packages," by Business Insider's Julie Bort.
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"This is not about greed or dictatorship, this is about a plot, this is about a conspiracy, this is about a backstabbing," Ghosn said.
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Still, that doesn't mean that the former Wizards of Waverly Place star is "backstabbing" Bella in any way — what does that even mean, anyway?
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One is surviving the Game of Thrones-style backstabbing and power playing that has consistently gone on in the White House since day one.
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But we're not talking about Tandang from the Philippines, that went 19 days of festering resentment before backstabbing RC. It's only been a week.
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There is nothing wrong with soapy exchanges, affairs, and backstabbing, but whether or not a show chooses that direction, it must commit either way.
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The answer to that involves a decades-long rivalry, accusations of backstabbing, a mess of acronyms and Malaysia's sometimes fraught religious and ethnic divides.
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She, too, has dealt with a landslide of heartbreaks, scandals, backstabbing and the stress that comes with being the partner of a soccer star.
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In a White House known for anonymous backstabbing, the Examiner story was viewed as a particularly vindictive leak and has provoked some bitter feelings.
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Working in the White House is a high-stakes job, and even more so in the Trump administration, with all the backstabbing and volatility.
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The surprise is that, after all of the insults, backstabbing, and conniving, that there are still some things that cross a line for the cast.
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People, both high and sober, love GoT because of the gruesome battles, the massive fire-breathing dragons, and the impressive amount of backstabbing (sometimes literal).
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So far, the Brexit process has been a hot mess of political infighting and uncertainty, bureaucracy and backstabbing — amid threats of coups and leadership challenges.
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" Ghosn has consistently refused to sign a confession and has accused Nissan and unnamed executives at the company of "backstabbing," and engaging in a "coup.
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And, in the backstabbing D.C. universe of House of Cards, it would incredibly damaging to Claire's presidency if her abortions were to become public knowledge.
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Questions about the origin of the leaks have rippled through Washington, with the suggestion that backstabbing aides may be looking to take down their rivals.
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It would be nice to see this happen more at Fox News and other networks instead of the usual backstabbing (and it's widespread) that occurs.
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After all the racing, hijacking, backstabbing, and occasional tragedies, the main group gets together to unwind with grilled meats and the requisite bottles of Corona.
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Dalí's Ten of Swords card — which can represent betrayal, backstabbing, or the death of a relationship — is a depiction of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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Joining up with Trump means not just dealing with his own mood swings but the backstabbing that is part and parcel of his White House.
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Meanwhile, their senior aides were effectively backstabbing one another and leaders of the Iowa Democratic Party, signaling a moment of extraordinary tension within the party.
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It's a line from the television series "Game of Thrones," which is about powermongering and backstabbing among rival rulers who believe dominance is their destiny.
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After the kind of backstabbing one would expect from a teen boy traumatized by a cult, Kevin seemingly comes to Betty and Charles with answers.
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Hitler disseminated anti-Semitic rhetoric as early as 1919, claiming Germany's lost World War I because of Jewish disloyalty and backstabbing, rather than military defeat.
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On Soccer A club once praised for its methods on and off the field has recently descended into a drifting, crisis-riddled, backstabbing soap opera.
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Ask any Periscope user what it's like in 2018, and you'll hear wild stories about backstabbing, abandonment, and generally being mistreated by the community and company.
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He has accused former colleagues of "backstabbing," describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France's Renault.
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"This is about a plot, this is about conspiracy, this is about backstabbing," Ghosn said in a video that was recorded before he was re-arrested.
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Leaked excerpts of journalist Michael Wolff's new gossipy tell-all, "Fire and Fury," from inside the White House kicked off an epic round of political backstabbing.
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Servos and vents are drawn or described with pleasing detail, but these are flourishes to a balletic structure of character development, political backstabbing, and thematic evocation.
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But it had become clear to him that the C.I.A had little ability to control the squabbling and backstabbing among the Saudis, Qataris and other Arabs.
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The beauty community was recently rocked by a fight that has nothing to do with makeup and everything to do with racist tweets, backstabbing, and apologies.
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Patches makes an appearance in every Souls game directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, including Bloodborne, and he's an insufferable, snidey, backstabbing prick in every single one of them.
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Paul LePage, a Trump supporter -- and prompted accusations of backstabbing and deception after an effort to agree to a "unity slate" of national convention delegates fell apart.
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Usually an incoming presidential administration is at least somewhat united by a common purpose, and doesn't degenerate into public kvetching and backstabbing until it's suffered some setbacks.
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Frankly, abortions and backstabbing aren't nearly as unbelievable as the thought of Claire and Frank getting their freak on with each other amid revenge plots and affairs.
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With 2016 shaping up to be an election year, #auspol will surely strengthen its hold on Aussie Twitter, one backstabbing and one bulb vegetable at a time.
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" He went on to call her "untrustworthy, vindictive, vicious, backstabbing and the absolute last person that you should ever allow, in my opinion, into the White House.
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I've heard that other cities can be insanely competitive, with all sorts of backstabbing and posturing among local bands, but I see very little of that here.
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So that's a typical day, and it's already full of locker room talk, favoritism, and backstabbing (he's secretly gunning to take Alex Levy's [Jennifer Aniston] juicier segments).
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Paps got Selena Sunday night leaving Terroni in L.A., and she really wasn't having it with their questions about backstabbing Bella Hadid by swooping in on The Weeknd.
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From here, there is only more backstabbing, scheming, sex tape leaking, relationship ruining, and unexpected paternity learning, along with every other telenovela standard fans have come to expect.
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Oh, and there's backstabbing, shit-talking, (totally) scripted lines, a manufactured romance, and lots of Joanna Coles walking on a treadmill (her go-to shtick) but it works.
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Washington (CNN)Like nearly every senior staffer in a White House infamous for backstabbing, Ivanka Trump spent her early months immersed in the drama of competing power centers.
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A final reason the president should stop backstabbing Sessions is that his apparent attempt to force Sessions to resign is undermining the morale and effectiveness of government workers.
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THE SPIDER NETWORK The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History By David Enrich Illustrated.
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San Diego (CNN)With battles, backstabbing and death happening on-screen, it's no wonder the cast of "Game of Thrones" takes every possible opportunity to get a laugh in.
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What he's saying: "This is about a plot, this is about conspiracy, this is about backstabbing — that's what we are talking about," Ghosn says in the pre-recorded video.
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But if your family wants to watch some reality TV and you want to avoid the catty backstabbing and vapidness, try Terrace House, the nicest reality show on television.
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All of these internal conflicts are folded into an emotional narrative of Shakespearean proportions replete with breakups and hookups, navel-gazing and drunk dialling, concerns of allegiance and backstabbing.
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Should this rumor come to pass, it will mark a level of diplomatic perfidy not seen since the backstabbing that took place at the Munich Conference in September 85033.
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Over the course of a young presidency composed of nothing but disasters and scandals, a torrent of anonymous backstabbing and grumbling has found its way into the mainstream media.
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Together, Joe Anglim and Kelly Wiglesworth have a combined 119 days competing on the long-running reality show – but they're about to leave the scheming and the backstabbing behind.
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Bravo's "Summer House" is full of drama queens ... because a cast member quit the show in a huff after claims of disrespect over his title and backstabbing by production!!!
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Rhett's ambitious texture and "eyes on the prize" flavor are paying off: the grain is slowly but surely backstabbing its way to the top of this harvest's B-list.
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Former team president Magic Johnson, whose jersey hangs from the Staples Centers rafters, said Monday it was general manager Rob Pelinka's backstabbing ways that led to his resignation in April.
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And so what you have to do as a manager is you have to go through the process and assist them and figure out where the backstabbing is coming from.
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In these perilous moments, instead of a White House focused completely on the threats at hand, President Trump's staff has been -- and continues to be -- mired in backstabbing and intrigue.
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And when you're working with the same people every day, conflicts are bound to come up, whether it's with that overbearing colleague, a backstabbing co-worker or the office gossip.
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"This is a conspiracy ... this is not about greed or dictatorship, this is about a plot, this about a conspiracy, this is about a backstabbing," Ghosn said in the video.
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Appearing to be an actual grown-up, in contrast to the squabbling, backstabbing men now in power, has helped position Ms. May as a welcome antidote to the current disarray.
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After the scandal, Leopold wrote a book in which he said he had engaged in "lying, cheating, and backstabbing" in his life; battled mental illness; and struggled with substance abuse.
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As TV genres go, national politics in the Trump era is as on-the-nose as it gets—delicious instability, blatant backstabbing, legislative high-drama, and daily presidential temper tantrums.
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The show embraces the lore of The Witcher, its humor, its seemingly nonstop deluge of political backstabbing and war, its characters, and all the weird and fun stuff in between.
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They're real people, but they slot into archetypes that lend Survivor a more narrative shape, especially against the more familiar backdrop of in-fighting and backstabbing, alliance-making and showmancing.
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"It is a shame that I have raised five children, and that the jealousy and the greed and the backstabbing that has been exhibited towards a sibling is unconscionable," he said.
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Her first novel, ''Valley of the Dolls,'' remains a pop-culture touchstone: a gleefully salacious story of friendship, sex, backstabbing and pills (or ''dolls'') that won famous fans and detractors alike.
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Here is what I know, when you're running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.
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Unfortunately, the miniseries spends a little too much of its time on Walker's feud with Addie Monroe (Carmen Ejogo), a relationship characterized by backstabbing, competition and occasional theft of product ideas.
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He has denied any wrongdoing and has said he was the victim of "backstabbing" and a "conspiracy" that wanted to derail his efforts to bring the two automakers towards a merger.
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After losing her business partner, she immediately steps into the range of fire at the law firm she helped build, attempting to rise above the cutthroat backstabbing and keep the business going.
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The scheming and backstabbing culminated last week in the firing of Vice President Mnangagwa – a onetime favorite as Mugabe's successor – in what was seen as a move to strengthen Grace Mugabe. 3.
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Crusader Kings II is a sprawling, ambitious strategy game set in the Middle Ages, one known for its stories of intrigue, backstabbing, and other plots spinning out of its central premise: relationships.
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Maybe Daario joins them and makes his way to the top of their chain so that when the time is right, he can land a crushing blow to Daenerys' backstabbing Lannister enemy.
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The pope has said he won't dignify it with a response, yet the allegations have touched off an ideological civil war, with the usually shadowy Vatican backstabbing giving way to open combat.
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Then Magic Johnson, who abruptly resigned as team president last month, got on TV, where he painted a picture of dysfunction behind the scenes and accused the team's general manager of backstabbing.
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And when a vein of nastiness opens beneath the banter (who knew Broadbent could be so wickedly threatening?) as ancient resentments swell and burst, the backstabbing menace feels jarringly out of place.
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Backstabbing and subterfuge are always part of this game, but the vote-mongering has grown more intense than usual, in part because there has been no clear front-runner for best picture.
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The backstabbing elements of it are all the more fun when you're right there with your best friends, or your partner—it's funnier to drop a sex scandal on them, in person.
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IQiyi has seen its subscription base grow thanks to a series of blockbuster titles — including "Story of Yanxi Palace," a record-breaking TV drama about backstabbing concubines — but that comes at a cost.
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"A little bit of under-competence and a slight amount of insecurity can breed some paranoia and backstabbing," a White House official complained to The Washington Post about chief of staff Reince Priebus.
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People familiar with the Trump White House say the leaks are a product of a toxic culture that incentivizes backstabbing instead of loyalty — an environment some say is fostered by the president himself.
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The stories of each character play out as high drama, filled with surprise revelations, backstabbing, crime family politics, and plenty of vicious beatdowns and manly tears, all rendered in exquisitely detailed cinematic cutscenes.
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But the internal conversation, led by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, reflects the widespread view among top Republicans that the current chaotic situation — beset with blame-casting, backstabbing and unintended consequences — is untenable.
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The salacious exposé has dominated the news cycle for the last week with details of the early days of President Donald Trump's White House, including chaos, backstabbing, and assorted references to Trump's McDonald's addiction.
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Self-aggrandizing oratory, the mercurial backstabbing of loyalists, callous disregard for anyone else's well-being: The party's bedrock principles would bring a tear to my eye if I had the capacity to feel tenderness.
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During the eight years of the Obama presidency, I thought U.S. policy toward Israel — the hectoring, the incompetent diplomatic interventions, the moral equivocations, the Iran deal, the backstabbing at the U.N. — couldn't get worse.
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But more than anything, what comes across is the joyous, raucous fun that a group of female friends can have together, without the fighting, drama or backstabbing that usually creeps into on-screen portrayals.
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That tension radiates outward to the political landscape of the show: the power plays and backstabbing and spurned populaces with chips on their shoulder gradually ratchet up the pressure on an already fragile stability.
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" He also ripped GoldLink for essentially backstabbing Mac, who "brought your ass on tour and opened up his fan base to you when you had nothing and this the type of appreciation you give?
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For all the drama of the Trump White House, with its alarming turnover and constant backstabbing leaks, it's easy to assume that no one in the executive branch has any idea what they're doing.
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With nearly all of its stores now out of business, the retailer's creditors have sued Sprint and are accusing the wireless carrier of backstabbing RadioShack and destroying any hope of a great American comeback story.
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"Besides, who wants to respond to made up stories about 'friends backstabbing friends', "cheating exes', or 'cast members exiting shows' on low-brow websites like hollywoodlife that are just perpetuating trends that preceded us. Yuck.
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At their best, these are anti-Game Change books, reminders that there's more to politics than the Great Men and Women on camera, and all of the gossiping and backstabbing that goes on behind them.
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Set in dewy, woodsy Oregon at an elite university called Beacon Heights, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists has all the same tricks as its namesake—devious young adults, scheming parents, blackmail, backstabbing, and obviously, gays.
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"This is about a plot, this is about conspiracy, this is about backstabbing," Ghosn said in the seven-minute video, which was recorded before he was arrested last week in Japan for a fourth time.
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To be sure, the Star Wars saga does have its share of intrigue and backstabbing among friends (think of Lando Calrissian turning over Han Solo and company to Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back).
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Accomplished as these offerings are, though, there's another game that gives you the chance to indulge in some wanton backstabbing and brutality in this iconic setting, and it may just be the best of the bunch.
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By the time the characters get swept up in the second round of the admissions process — a portfolio review in which each child must showcase a special talent — the lying, jealousy and backstabbing reach staggering heights.
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Ghosn, who holds French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship, is facing financial misconduct charges and has said he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing "backstabbing" former colleagues of conspiring to oust him as Nissan chairman.
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A man who, while McCain was home in Arizona fighting the brain cancer that eventually killed him, would use the story of McCain voting against health care repeal legislation to symbolize the Arizona senator's alleged backstabbing.
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The leaks won't make it onto Russia's government-controlled nightly news, but Russia's oligarchs have business partners and rivals both at home and abroad that could make good use of revelations of corruption, fraud, and backstabbing.
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It reads like a guilty pleasure, a beach read that delves into the lives of the rich and famous or purports to take us backstage at a hit reality TV show to reveal backstabbing and gossip underneath.
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Ghosn has said he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing former Nissan colleagues of "backstabbing", describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between the Japanese automaker and Renault, its top shareholder.
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Sure, Jon can broker peace with the wildlings and shatter a White Walker or two, but does he really want to organize trade with the Summer Isles and deal with a court of backstabbing nobles (too soon)?
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Ghosn has said he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing former Nissan colleagues of "backstabbing," describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between the Japanese automaker and Renault, its top shareholder.
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Bran could have used his knowledge of history and of the present — his power over everyone's supposed secrets — to be every bit as effective as Varys, the Master of Whisperers, or Littlefinger, the master of backstabbing intrigue.
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A soapy, twisted melodrama about the behind-the-scenes backstabbing of a reality TV show is not the place for serious discussions about police violence, systematic racism, and the general exploitation of the Black body for profit.
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Just as one of the oldest fact-checking sites seems to have hit its mainstream stride, it gets tangled in a dramatic legal mess, one that involves lots of finger-pointing, alleged backstabbing, and a contentious divorce.
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Several seasons ago, you'd watch an episode of Game of Thrones as two characters embraced—wide smiles and tight grips—and you'd think, Oy, am I about to witness another rah-rah, fuck-your-feelings backstabbing murder?
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In a pair of novels, he's been more slyly devastating, portraying a country run almost entirely by backstabbing mediocrities, and a society where a woman who shows any gumption or intelligence usually ends up dead or disfigured.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A defiant Carlos Ghosn accused "backstabbing" former colleagues of conspiring to oust him as Nissan chairman and threatening the Japanese automaker's future, in a video marking his first public address since his initial arrest last year.
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Photo: Getty ImagesEnvironmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is under 13 concurrent federal investigations into everything from his exorbitant 24/7 security detail and habit of backstabbing whistleblowing subordinates to pricey plane tickets and cozy relationships with lobbyists.
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And the character with the most prominent wild streak, Jessa Johansson, ended up having some serious issues with self-sabotage and backstabbing, which barely gave viewers time to revel in her dry sense of humor and free-spiritedness.
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There's so much info dished out it's hard to know where to begin, but Drake suggests the nastiness started when Kanye essentially lured him to Wyoming to record music ... but ended up backstabbing him and betraying his trust.
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The park's future has frequently been uncertain, with backstage infighting to rival anything in Westworld: The Wall Street Journal referred to its owners' backstabbing power grabs as "Machiavellian" in a breathless 1997 article on the park's fluctuating fortunes.
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" Graham says the photo of her in a white skirt and crop top with a leather jacket is what set everyone off, with commenters saying things like, "You don't make plus-size dollars anymore, you make backstabbing dollars.
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And the one thing I learned about Washington and wanting to stop the nonsense and knock it off with each other with the stupid backstabbing and the subterfuge, and work on the 25-year plan to help America.
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The former Nissan and Renault SA chairman has denied all charges against him and said he was the victim of "backstabbing" and a "conspiracy" that wanted to derail his efforts to bring the two automakers towards a merger.
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Parscale is almost universally well-liked and respected inside Trumpworld, a rarity considering it's rife with intense rivalries and backstabbing, though two sources familiar with the matter reported tension between Trump's 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Parscale.
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It was a surprise move - Gove was sacked as justice minister by May last year after his bid to become party leader forced now-foreign minister Boris Johnson from the race, amid accusations of treachery and political backstabbing.
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He's not 'the sneaky, loser, little dips---' portrayed in 'The Social Network' Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Zuckerberg as a conniving, backstabbing, severely socially awkward introvert made for great drama, but it's just not who Zuck is, Martínez said.
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"Social relations in Westeros are sustained as much through bread-breaking rituals, arranged marriages, and promise-keeping as through backstabbing and treachery," Charli Carpenter, a professor of international relations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes at Foreign Affairs.
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In the end, after all the infighting, simpering, backstabbing and false flattery by the woman who love both her, and the opportunity she represents, Anne's the one who holds all the power, but has the least taste for it.
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Indeed, you might argue that in a fantasy world where coalitions are constantly forming and dissolving, often with fire and blood and backstabbing, that an eleventh-hour plot is the most Game of Thrones move I could possibly make.
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Frozen Synapse 2 imagines a much more complex, and cynical, vision of the world, one where a group like XCOM (or Bureau 8) immediately gets swept up by the politicking and backstabbing of the system they're sworn to protect.
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Iaconetti caused several women to give up their pursuit of Haibon, including Clare Crawley in season two and Caila Quinn in season three, the latter of which Iaconetti called a "backstabbing w----" for going on a date with him.
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One of the biggest cliffhangers from the first half of the season is actually addressed: What in God's name would Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious (Terrence Howard) do once they got their hands on their backstabbing son Hakeem.
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Her husband — a longtime youth baseball volunteer with a sterling reputation for kindness and decency — had been tabbed to manage the league's All-Star team, but thanks to internal politics and a good dose of backstabbing, was denied the opportunity.
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Washington (CNN)Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says in a new book he was shocked by an apparent culture of backstabbing in Washington and specifically his own department -- and that veterans are paying the price, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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Unfortunately, so much of what happens on Game of Thrones is just the same five to seven things — backstabbing, front-stabbing, poisoning, smooching, horseback riding, eating bread — and the prospect of another throne-room meeting with Daenerys does not seem thrilling.
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Ghosn has denied any wrongdoing saying he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing "backstabbing" former colleagues of conspiring to oust him from Nissan in order to derail a closer alliance between the Japanese automaker and Renault, its top shareholder.
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Whether they're with dead dads or backstabbing brothers or trusty sidekicks or wise mentors, these bonds reveal to us what really drives the hero, reflect back their best and worse qualities, and raise the stakes of the end of the world.
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But between the scrutiny of his boss, the growing frustrations of the press corps and the backstabbing by his own colleagues, whoever that may be, it's easy to see why nearly everyone in Washington thinks Spicer is about to get axed.
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With exceptions for his administrative action in the regulatory and immigration enforcement realms—and the Supreme Court appointment of Neil Gorsuch, a fait accompli—Trump's first months in office have been marked by incompetence, backstabbing, judicial injunctions, and legislative failure.
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While Tencent zooms in on video games and anime, Baidu's Netflix-style video site iQiyi has received wide acclaim for house-produced dramas like Yanxi Palace, a smash hit drama about backstabbing concubines that was streamed over 15 billion times.
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The political odd couple, former prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, 13, and his one time deputy Anwar Ibrahim, have both engineered, and endured, decades of political machinations and backstabbing -- mostly targeting each following Anwar's dismissal from Mahathir's cabinet in 1998.
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"You're looking at a series of kingdoms all involved in this 'Game of Thrones' political story where they are marrying, fighting, killing each other and backstabbing," said Thomas Garrison, an archaeologist at Ithaca College and an author of the paper.
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The film also doesn't hold back in demonstrating that the Western-hating political radicalization that followed, not only in Iran but in the entire region, was largely inspired by the US and UK's policies of political backstabbing and forced regime change.
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All of which would seem to create an opening for a strong, silent type, someone whose hooded eyes themselves convey war-weary experience, whose entire career has been spent not in partisan backstabbing but in Israel's most unifying institution: the army.
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Politics in the Trump era is a series of fascinating human dramas, featuring a larger-than-life celebrity and veteran television personality in the starring role and replete with more plot twists, backstabbing, striking revelations, and strange reversals than any prestige cable series.
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And whoever eventually decides to become Trump's third chief will face more than the complications of dealing with a President who constantly torches the conventions of his office and who revels at being the epicenter of an atmosphere of chaos, backstabbing and recrimination.
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For those of you who can't wait for the promised reincarnation of the prime-time soap de luxe "Dynasty" on CW, there's plenty of glamorous backstabbing, diva dissing and sexual double-crossing in downtown New York these days, courtesy of an uptown establishment.
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This White House has featured backstabbing and knife fighting since the very start, but now the president seems to have given the green light — his subordinates should attack their rivals as viciously as possible, and they'll face no consequences for it whatsoever.
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There's a ring of Daniel Bryan's push to this, a sense that WWE knows that we know something is wrong, that they won't change it but maybe are anyway, until it becomes an ouroboros of petty corporate politics and locker room backstabbing.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman underscored this point last summer when she — a favorite but losing The Apprentice contestant who later won herself an office in the West Wing — revealed audio recordings she had made to make sure her reputation and position were safeguarded from backstabbing.
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While the Bachelorette villain apologized for the scuffle and said it was an accident, it became a whole thing in the house that, combined with backstabbing and secret conversations, formed a huge rift between the two men, presenting Hannah Brown with a difficult decision.
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Used frequently by contestants in reference to a fellow contestant who is backstabbing, two-faced, or otherwise clearly trying to dupe the bachelor/bachelorette, producers, and others to leverage fame, more Instagram followers, or a chance to return to the franchise via Bachelor in Paradise.
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What originally was supposed to be a major three-day festival with a crowd of more than 150,113 has quickly lowered expectations thanks to dozens of setbacks, venue changes, denied permits, funding mishaps, claims of backstabbing, big egos, and other indications of general incompetence.
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If, for whatever reason, Oakland Raiders customers feel like their preferred business is owned by a cheapskate, backstabbing weirdo with daddy issues whose only defining feature is being respected by nobody who broke a profound social contract, they can take their money and loyalty elsewhere.
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"Certainly the other possibility is that he's had it — with the intrigues, the backstabbing, the manipulations of politics," said Gadi Wolfsfeld, a professor of political communications at the Interdisciplinary Center, a private college north of Tel Aviv, who is a frequent critic of Mr. Netanyahu.
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"Without Anesthesia" (1979) is the story of a disintegrating marriage that, in presenting the pressures of conformity, the practice of bureaucratic backstabbing and the experience of a vague but potent sense of disapproval wafting down from the authorities, subtly analyzes an entire social order.
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Ghosn has since said he is the victim of a boardroom coup, accusing former Nissan colleagues of "backstabbing" and describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between the Japanese automaker and its top shareholder Renault, of which Ghosn was also chairman.
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What Trump describes is more of a Lincoln-esque "Team of Rivals" where high-minded experts argue over the best approach to the difficult problems facing the country, not a knock-down, drag-out "Hunger Games" scenario where the president encourages bloodletting and backstabbing.
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Then her brother-in-law Walter Sampson/Brainwave, the leader of this literal and figurative backstabbing, reveals that she's been trapped in a psychic construct and shows her what's happened in real life: She's been skewered through her throat, gut, and knees and is choking down thick, gooey blood.
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To do so, Ben has to quickly work his way up to the 40th floor to get additional privileges, which means lots of scheming, backstabbing, and all of the usual plot points attached to a good guy doing bad things in order to ultimately do a great thing.
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While there is one memorable episode about the actual politics of the election, the series also throws out two installments more interested in musicals than governance, situations that will remind you of two different Gillian Flynn novels, and whiplash backstabbing that is so circuitous you'll be left dizzy.
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And finally, let's use this as an example of how important it is to stop this trend of writing horrible headlines about women, painting us as bitter, angry, insecure, heartbroken, childless, feuding, backstabbing monsters because whether we want to admit it or not, it changes the way all women view themselves.
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After competing both with and against each other on Battle of the Bloodlines, this season's newly crowned season's winners are exclusively telling PEOPLE about the good, the bad and the ugly of being confronted by the MTV's competition's famously grueling physical challenges – and the backstabbing drama outside of the dreaded Pit.
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But by now, he should be well aware that just about any of the soulless mongrels who have fetched for Trump would turn on any of the others in a second -- the volume of backstabbing and self-aggrandizing leaking coming out of the Trump White House is evidence of that.
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I mean, she was savagely attacked by the media when she was at the Trump White House, and now she&aposs coming up with this explosive tell-all, or backstabbing book, some would say, and now everyone is giving her a big platform and they&aposre listening to everything she has to say.
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Among my favorite episodes (and there are many) was the time an anonymous and not particularly self-aware White House official claimed that "under-competence and a slight amount of insecurity" had bred "paranoia and backstabbing" in none other than chief of staff Reince Priebus, who is supposed to be basically everyone's boss.
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A crisis of professionalism defines his administration, in which backstabbing is the new glad-handing, firings are cruel, exits are ugly, the turnover is jaw-dropping, the number of unfilled positions is mind-boggling, and many officials have titles that are prefaced with "acting" — a modifier with multiple meanings in this case.
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Instead, its narrative flashes back and forth between the backstabbing streets of a divided city, where the enemies might easily be on your own team, and a murder investigation set in the present; a murder with roots in long-ago events that is not the simple domestic tragedy it appears to be.
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Daytime Divas was inspired by former View co-host and Divas executive producer Star Jones' novel Satan's Sisters… A Novel of Fiction, which lifted the curtain on all the catfights, backstabbing and power battles in the world of daytime TV. Take notes on how she slays when Daytime Divas premieres June 5 on VH1.
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In "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History," David Enrich of The Wall Street Journal manages to make Libor interesting and demonstrates the continuing relevance of a financial scandal that enveloped many of the world's largest banks.
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He has accused former colleagues of "backstabbing", describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France's Renault SA. "Carlos Ghosn is innocent of the latest charges brought against him by the Tokyo prosecutors, aided and abetted by certain Nissan conspirators," a Ghosn representative said in a statement.
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He has accused former colleagues of "backstabbing", describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France's Renault SA. "Carlos Ghosn is innocent of the latest charges brought against him by the Tokyo prosecutors, aided and abetted by certain Nissan conspirators," a Ghosn representative said in a statement.
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But Game of Thrones at least allows us to think that—with enough cunning, enough backstabbing and backscratching, if we made the right allegiances and stood on stormy cliffs with perfect posture and said high fantasy things like, "MY LADY OF THE VALE, YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE MARCH OF THE DOTHRAKI"2—that we would succeed.
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Think bigger: The summer's hottest property was "Story of Yanxi Palace" — a TV costume drama on a Chinese streaming service, whose tales of scheming empresses and backstabbing concubines in 18th-century Beijing have been watched 17 billion times, according to Maoyan, the Chinese online ticketing and statistics provider, or more than twice for every person on earth.
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Recommended by Peter A.E. Koudijs, Associate Professor of Finance It's interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look at the ugly underbelly of the financial sector: A brewing pot of toxic culture, burnout, backstabbing and bonus-obsessed co-workers — especially through the lens of Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist who knew very little about banking prior to writing the book.
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He has accused former colleagues of "backstabbing", describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France's Renault SA. The case has rocked the global auto industry while shining a harsh light on Japan's judicial system, which critics refer to as "hostage justice" as defendants who deny their charges are often not granted bail.
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He has accused former colleagues of "backstabbing," describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France's Renault SA. The case has rocked the global auto industry while shining a harsh light on Japan's judicial system, which critics refer to as "hostage justice" as defendants who deny their charges are often not granted bail.
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This is almost certainly an intentional design choice for better game balance, even if the execution is frustrating; enemy attacks that hit behind them (and encounters with multiple enemies) are basically the only thing that prevents a pair of players from distracting and backstabbing every enemy in the game to death (and that's still a viable strategy, it's just not free).
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Though often compared unfavorably with Waugh's great " Sword of Honour " trilogy, Powell's three wartime volumes are among his best, showing us not just the random destructiveness of the Blitz but also a side of military life we seldom hear about, one of bureaucracy and paper-pushing, backstabbing and angling for preferment—like working for a corporation, only more boring and with bosses who are more inept.
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It's never quite Crusader Kings or Game of Thrones levels of interpersonal drama and backstabbing, and as the scale of the game broadens these individual tensions both seem to matter less and to be defused more easily, but these systems do imbue Three Kingdoms with a sense of inner life for character who might otherwise be little more than stat-sheets and ability lists.
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Middleditch's Richard went from being a naïve but brilliant company founder to a budding backstabbing CEO; Miller's Bachmann earned and lost a couple fortune's and demonstrated that he does have feelings despite constantly being stoned; Woods's Jared became creepily devoted to Richard and emerged as one of the funniest characters in all of TV. The show also turned out plenty of incredible, absurdly involved set pieces, which have become its speciality.
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Which is why Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's new Netflix series, The Politician, is set to be such a weirdly cathartic, tongue-in-cheek look at how today's politicians navigate the treacherous world of public office, wrestling with everything from backstabbing family members to conniving opponents to zany PR tactics, just to name a few of the misbehaviors put on display in the series' dark trailer, released this past August.
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