I knew Daenerys was going to go crazy. I just didn't expect it was going to be that crazy.
The amount of graphic pornographic sex in the first season and to a lesser extent the second is really quite beyond the pale, but later seasons are not that bad. Many episodes have nary a hint of sex or nudity.
The person I watched it with left the room when Jamie threw Bram out of the tower and refused to watch anymore. She really missed an opportunity see one of the most fascinating character studies on film in Jamie.
Get ready for the prequel: House of the Dragon, the first season consisting of 10 episodes, and scheduled to air in 2022.
I never even got through the first series of Downton Abbey. Awful.
I’ll stick with K-Dramas.
Funny, I couldn’t get through G0T at all. I tried I really did. But the show has too many characters, too many plot lines, and just when you can wrap your head around any of them the writer(s) killed the characters and plots off.
Sure we all have our own personal tastes and preferences and yes, it is very grizzly and gory. But for me, it was completely unwatchable because it’s impossible to follow the story. Which is fine for an art piece, like The Other Side of the Wind by Orson Welles (on Netflix, with a companion documentary by Peter Bogdonovich).
HBO has recently licensed a lot of the old Turner Classic Movies library. A lot of the old MGM films. I have been watching them. Some of them produced 30-40 years before I was born. When you have downtime, scroll through and see what catches your eye. I saw Barry Lyndon, which is beautiful, and Lolita and 2001 in my own personal Stanley Kubrick marathon last weekend. Also watched some Bogie, and even the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Great stuff on their stream right now.
You need to read the books first. You may not even want to watch the show after that.
we binge watched it last month. if someone told me a year ago that I would ever get tired of seeing Emilia Clarke naked, I’d have presumed he was crazy.
but after watching GoT, I was tired of seeing Emilia Clarke naked. I mean, she’s naked A LOT.
We didn’t watch GOT until season 7 started. We also don’t have cable and have missed every major tv show. It was epic but the ending was hurried and a big letdown.
To give you an idea of how far behind we are one of our next scheduled binge watches is Breaking Bad.
That's not what Shakespeare thought of Richard II, if I remember rightly.
I suspect Roman emperors, or maybe Italian Renaissance tyrants or Oriental monarchs, were the more likely models for Joffrey.
No. It’s not excellent.
It’s like a drug of abuse.
Start reading the books. They are great and then you can see how the dialogue dropped off when they had no more books to work from.
And then you can be really annoyed that GRRM may never finish the next book much less the series of books.
I was rereading some of the books and reminded me of the love he showed for Bran. I always thought Tyrion would be the winner but in a way he ended up in control.
It’s a completely pagan worldview without Christ’s mercy or forgiveness or the recognition of the value of the human person. Nietzsche would have loved it.
GOT is much better than The Walking Dead.
(Both shows seemed in competition with each other.)
Storyline, moving along, and the good sense to end in season 8.
Hordor hordor hordor ....
The brutality, the sex and the actual filth (as in people were often dirty grungy and no doubt, smelly) was the point. The TOTAL lack of respect for human life was how it often was in medieval Europe- at least for the peasants. He pulls no punches when showing that.
Haven’t watched many new TV shows or movies in at least a decade, maybe two.
When I do happen upon one, I’m taken aback by the sturm & drang, sadism, gratuitous sex, wokism, etc.
And don’t get me started on commercials.
I thought Season 8 was horrible !
It came across as rushed, one of “We’ve made our cash & fame let’s get this over with !”
Interesting series, ruined by the faggotry and a total crap ending.
Got HBO via Amazon Prime two years ago just to watch the last season and I just finished the last two episodes last week (I procrastinate a little). Quite a let down but they did leave at least 5 story lines open for sequels if they choose to do so.
Season 8 came across as rushed - especially the character arcs. It needed a couple more episodes, if not another season, for a proper conclusion.
I felt a little cheated by the lack of attention to the Bran character throughout the series, considering how series ended.
I had the same complaints as the author.
But it was not as bothersome in Vikings as it was in GOT.