What makes this a fun show is that not only is it an unrelenting vision of the brutality of war, the world and vice but also had a sense of humor about it.
Not a comedy, nut the sardonic musings and exchanges made swell sorbet to this branching web of a story.
Was it always amazing? I guess not. It's bingeable and by this mean good enough to watch not just an episode all the way through in one setting and start others but at the same time, I never felt like rationing it to once to a week along with the best shows.
To this day I don't claim to really understand why they're even fighting.
The first episode of this I ever watched was the season 3 penultimate (yeah...).
There's this one character, I forget his name but the writers seem committed to using him as a model for the superlative of suffering, torture and psychological breaking. It's sort of annoying really when he outright says something is a trick and it sort of is but you can't say there isn't something karmic about it.
The threat of death is meaningful here. But I hope I am spoilering nothing when I say that every death or major change is earned and justified. A character may die but it doesn't leave their own story incomplete; it forms part of another story.
However, that's not to say that this show didn't keep finding ways to shock you. They don't have a big twist EVERY episode which helps it work in its own rhythm of quite build up to vicious battles or other, more personable moments of sadism and cruelty.
Daenarys is interesting but I felt that over time she went from sympathetic to kind of smug but maybe that's the point. That girl who called her sword "needle" also palled on me.
Jon Snow is such a swell, empathetic and empathic character on a super arc and Tyrion is my spirit animal.
Sometimes I did feel annoyed but not usually.
I can pleasure myself to parts of this but there really isn't the excess of nudity people want you to think it is.
The final episode is brilliant and is exactly the ending the show needed. It made perfect sense given what had happened in the show so far.
(An obnoxious moment of anti-democratic rhetoric notwithstanding.)
Not a comedy, nut the sardonic musings and exchanges made swell sorbet to this branching web of a story.
Was it always amazing? I guess not. It's bingeable and by this mean good enough to watch not just an episode all the way through in one setting and start others but at the same time, I never felt like rationing it to once to a week along with the best shows.
To this day I don't claim to really understand why they're even fighting.
The first episode of this I ever watched was the season 3 penultimate (yeah...).
There's this one character, I forget his name but the writers seem committed to using him as a model for the superlative of suffering, torture and psychological breaking. It's sort of annoying really when he outright says something is a trick and it sort of is but you can't say there isn't something karmic about it.
The threat of death is meaningful here. But I hope I am spoilering nothing when I say that every death or major change is earned and justified. A character may die but it doesn't leave their own story incomplete; it forms part of another story.
However, that's not to say that this show didn't keep finding ways to shock you. They don't have a big twist EVERY episode which helps it work in its own rhythm of quite build up to vicious battles or other, more personable moments of sadism and cruelty.
Daenarys is interesting but I felt that over time she went from sympathetic to kind of smug but maybe that's the point. That girl who called her sword "needle" also palled on me.
Jon Snow is such a swell, empathetic and empathic character on a super arc and Tyrion is my spirit animal.
Sometimes I did feel annoyed but not usually.
I can pleasure myself to parts of this but there really isn't the excess of nudity people want you to think it is.
The final episode is brilliant and is exactly the ending the show needed. It made perfect sense given what had happened in the show so far.
(An obnoxious moment of anti-democratic rhetoric notwithstanding.)