Film & Television
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Woody Harrelson's partner detective in True Detective's first season is named this.
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HBO's acclaimed crime drama about drugs and institutions is set in this American city.
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The ancestral seat of House Stark in Game of Thrones is this northern castle.
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This writer-producer created Breaking Bad after years working on The X-Files.
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Jason Bateman plays this financial advisor forced to launder money for a cartel in Ozark.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson share a flat at this famous fictional London address in BBC's Sherlock.
BAKERSTREETThe debt-ridden protagonist forced to compete in deadly children's games in Squid Game goes by this nickname.
GIHUNKarl Urban plays this foul-mouthed vigilante leader determined to take down corrupt superheroes in The Boys.
BUTCHERDaenerys Targaryen hatches three of these fire-breathing creatures from stone eggs.
DRAGONSThis actress won two Emmys for playing Rue in HBO's Euphoria.
ZENDAYAThe criminal mastermind who plans the elaborate mint heist in Money Heist is known only as this.
PROFESSORThe stoic, ex-cop fixer who appears in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul goes by this first name.
MIKEThis former Baltimore Sun journalist created The Wire based on his own reporting.
DAVIDSIMONWalter White's former student and eventual meth-cooking partner is this character.
JESSEPINKMANIn the spy thriller where Jodie Comer plays assassin Villanelle, Sandra Oh's disillusioned intelligence-officer character shares her first name with the show's title.
EVENetflix's Mindhunter follows a young FBI agent who pioneers criminal profiling by interviewing serial killers; he's named this.
HOLDENThis actor played Jon Snow throughout Game of Thrones' eight seasons.
KITHARINGTONThe doomed flight that crashes on the mysterious island in Lost belonged to this airline.
OCEANICThe mind-controlling fungus that causes the outbreak in The Last of Us is a real-world genus called this.
CORDYCEPSThe former spinal surgeon who becomes the reluctant leader of the crash survivors in Lost is simply called this.
JACKRobin Wright played this calculating first lady who eventually claims power for herself in House of Cards.
CLAIREJeremy Allen White plays this fine-dining chef who returns home to run his late brother's sandwich shop in The Bear.
CARMYThis veteran Scottish actor played the tyrannical patriarch Logan Roy in Succession.
BRIANCOXContestants must carefully carve a shape out of this brittle honeycomb candy in one of Squid Game's deadly challenges.
DALGONAThis filmmaker created the satirical resort-set anthology series The White Lotus.
MIKEWHITEThe hard-drinking, insubordinate homicide detective at the center of The Wire is named this.
MCNULTYLogan Roy's eldest ambitious son, often jockeying to succeed him, is named this.
KENDALLThe oppressive theocratic regime that replaces the United States in The Handmaid's Tale is called this.
GILEADDon Draper's first wife, a former model turned suburban housewife, is named this.
BETTYDRAPERBefore he became Saul Goodman, Bob Odenkirk's character in Better Call Saul went by this real name.
JIMMYMCGILLThe Crown centers on this British monarch's reign, starting from her early years on the throne.
ELIZABETHThe Bear is set in a chaotic Italian beef sandwich shop in this American city.
CHICAGOBella Ramsey plays this immune teenager who may hold the cure to a fungal pandemic in The Last of Us.
ELLIEPeaky Blinders is set among a gang in this English city in the years after World War I.
BIRMINGHAMThe scheming queen played by Lena Headey in Game of Thrones is named this.
CERSEIBig Little Lies is set among wealthy families in this coastal California town.
MONTEREYThe fictional global media conglomerate fought over in Succession is named this (one word).
WAYSTARThis Is Us follows three siblings and their parents who all share this surname.
PEARSONThe tough, resourceful young Ozark local who becomes an ally to the Byrde family is named this.
RUTHClaire Danes plays this bipolar CIA officer convinced a rescued POW has been turned by the enemy in Homeland.
CARRIEMATHISONOn Apple TV+'s Severance, employees who undergo the procedure develop a separate work identity known as this.
INNIEThe Marine sergeant suspected of being a terrorist sleeper agent in Homeland's early seasons is named this.
BRODYThis actor plays the famous detective in BBC's modern-day reboot Sherlock.
CUMBERBATCHFX's anthology series Fargo, inspired by the Coen brothers' film, is set primarily in this snowy state.
MINNESOTAKit Harington played this brooding Night's Watchman turned king in the north.
JONSNOWThe nomadic horse-riding warrior people Daenerys marries into in Game of Thrones are called this.
DOTHRAKIThis actor won four Emmys for playing Walter White in Breaking Bad.
CRANSTONThe mysterious, morally ambiguous veteran guest played by Ed Harris in Westworld is known only as this.
MANINBLACKThe mysterious scientific research group behind the hatches and stations on the island in Lost is called this.
DHARMAReese Witherspoon plays this outspoken, controlling mother in Big Little Lies.
MADELINECillian Murphy plays this cunning gang leader at the head of a Birmingham crime family in Peaky Blinders.
THOMASSHELBYThe Black sibling adopted into the Pearson family on the same day his birth siblings were born is named this.
RANDALLThis screenwriter wrote HBO's Chernobyl, a miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster.
CRAIGMAZINSteve Buscemi plays this corrupt prohibition-era political boss in Boardwalk Empire.
NUCKYTHOMPSONElisabeth Moss's character in The Handmaid's Tale is forced to go by the name Offred, but her real first name is this.
JUNEZendaya plays this drug-addicted teenager narrating her own chaotic life in Euphoria.
RUEGus Fring's fried-chicken restaurant chain, a front for his drug empire, is called Los Pollos '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
HERMANOSPedro Pascal plays this grizzled smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl across a ravaged America in The Last of Us.
JOELThe German sci-fi series Dark centers on disappearances in this small fictional town.
WINDENThe aging, ruthless media mogul at the center of HBO's Succession is named this.
LOGANROYJimmy McGill's brilliant, guarded lawyer love interest in Better Call Saul is named this.
KIMWEXLERAmazon's The Boys centers its satire on this corrupt, super-strength-having leader of The Seven.
HOMELANDERThe shadowy biotech corporation whose employees undergo memory-severing surgery is named this.
LUMONBreaking Bad is set in this New Mexico city.
ALBUQUERQUEThe soft-spoken restaurant owner secretly running a meth empire in Breaking Bad has this full name.
GUSFRINGThe shape-shifting black entity that stalks the island in Lost is often called this.
SMOKEMONSTERThis actor played the smooth, secretive ad man Don Draper for all seven seasons of Mad Men.
JONHAMMThe time-traveling teenager at the center of the German series Dark is named this.
JONASEmilia Clarke's character, mother of three dragons, is known by this first name.
DAENERYSThis AMC drama's chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin protagonist has this full name.
WALTERWHITEBreaking Bad's shady strip-mall lawyer, later spun off into his own prequel series, is named this.
SAULGOODMANThe young Stark daughter who trains as an assassin with the Faceless Men is named this.
ARYASTARKThe Wire's beloved shotgun-wielding stick-up man who robs drug dealers is named this.
OMARLITTLEThis actress won an Emmy for playing the queen in The Crown's third and fourth seasons.
OLIVIACOLMANThis actor played the philosophical, haunted detective Rust Cohle in True Detective's first season.
MCCONAUGHEYThe heist crew in Money Heist wears red jumpsuits and masks modeled after this famous surrealist painter.
DALIWalter White adopts this codename as his secret drug-dealing alter ego.
HEISENBERGBilly Bob Thornton played this manipulative, coyote-obsessed drifter and villain in Fargo's first TV season.
LORNEMALVOJon Hamm's ad-agency protagonist in Mad Men hides a stolen identity behind this name.
DONDRAPERTrue Detective's acclaimed first season is set in this Gulf Coast state.
LOUISIANAThe lovable lottery-winner-turned-castaway in Lost, cursed by his own numbers, is nicknamed this.
HURLEYThe nearby city evacuated after the nuclear disaster depicted in Chernobyl is named this.
PRIPYATThe 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency at the center of Mad Men is named this (two words, no space).
STERLINGCOOPERThe White Lotus's first season is set at a luxury resort in this U.S. state.
HAWAIIKevin Costner plays this ranch-owning patriarch fighting to protect his land in Yellowstone.
JOHNDUTTONThe pregnant, no-nonsense Minnesota police officer at the heart of Fargo's first TV season is named this.
MOLLYThe Handmaid's Tale was written as a novel decades earlier by this Canadian author.
MARGARETATWOODThis actor plays Mark, the severed employee at the center of Severance.
ADAMSCOTTPeter Dinklage's witty, wine-loving dwarf lord in Game of Thrones has this full name.
TYRIONLANNISTERBoardwalk Empire follows a bootlegging political boss in this New Jersey seaside city during Prohibition.
ATLANTICCITYKevin Spacey played this ruthless, fourth-wall-breaking congressman turned president in House of Cards.
FRANKUNDERWOODThis actor plays Joel, the grief-stricken smuggler at the center of The Last of Us.
PEDROPASCALDownton Abbey follows this aristocratic family and their household staff through the early 20th century.
CRAWLEYJodie Comer plays this stylish, playful assassin who becomes fixated on the agent hunting her in Killing Eve.
VILLANELLEThis screenwriter created The Crown after previously writing the film The Queen.
PETERMORGANYellowstone is set on a sprawling cattle ranch in this U.S. state.
MONTANAThis actress played the young queen in The Crown's first two seasons.
CLAIREFOYEvan Rachel Wood plays this android theme-park attraction who begins to gain consciousness in Westworld.
DOLORESThe ambitious copywriter who rises from secretary to creative director across Mad Men's run is named this.
PEGGYOLSONNetflix's Narcos dramatizes the rise and fall of this notorious real-life Colombian drug lord.
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