All right, I’m all caught up on ‘Game of Thrones’. (See, that didn’t take very long at all, did it?) I noticed an interesting theme in this week’s new episode, which seems to be all about people who stand their ground even when they’d probably be safer and smarter to flee.
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Yes, I’m still behind in my TV watching as a result of traveling last week. As I catch up, ‘Game of Thrones’ is of course a show that I’ve prioritized. It’s also a series with so much going on that I feel every episode deserves the benefit of its own recap. So, as I get to work on this week’s latest episode, here’s a look at what happened while I was away.
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How much fun is it to watch Tyrion Lannister slap jerkwad King Joffrey in the face? He hasn’t had the opportunity to do that since early in the first season of ‘Game of Thrones’, but he gets another chance this week, and we the viewers can take great delight in watching it happen again.
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“Anyone can be killed,” Arya Stark ominously reminds us in a scene from this week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’. That line could practically serve as author George R.R. Martin’s mission statement for the series, as he’s fond of demonstrating.
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At this point, I think that HBO really ought to just give everyone formerly associated with ‘Seinfeld’ his or her own half-hour comedy series. Larry David has been on board for the past decade, and now Julia Louis-Dreyfus joins the network family with the political satire ‘Veep’. Based on the first episode, this one’s another winner.
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Does this week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ dwell too much on violence and torture and misery and suffering and murder? Is such a thing even possible for this show? I’m not sure, but one thing is certain, this episode is DARK.
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On Sunday, HBO premiered its new generically-titled, half-hour dramedy series ‘Girls’. The show stars and is written, directed, produced, edited, scored, lit, photographed, sound mixed, catered and pretty much everything else by 25-year-old indie filmmaking sensation Lena Dunham, creator of the audience-polarizing 2010 art film ‘Tiny Furniture‘. Will Dunham’s TV series prove as divisive as her movie, or will it just slink off into obscurity?
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Although we’re still pretty early in the second season of ‘Game of Thrones’, I think that I’m beginning to side with some viewer criticisms that the show is suffering for lack of a central character to root for. I get the sense that Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are meant to be the main “heroes,” but both have gotten short shrift so far this season. Snow is barely in this week’s episode, and Dany doesn’t appear at all.
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Have I been living in a hole? How did I miss that a new Aaron Sorkin-penned show will be hitting HBO this summer?
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If we’re to take the title ‘Game of Thrones’ literally, I suppose it’s inevitable that some episodes of the show will focus mainly on moving the players around the game board. Such is the case with this week’s episode, which spends more time maneuvering the characters into position for big events to come than letting them actually do anything.
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