I didn't have much hope in the new prequel of the "Game of Thrones" franchise. I was pleasantly surprised.
Now they had to bow somewhat to political correctness as they had a black dude on the privy council and there was a lot of female empowerments rah rah stuff, but it wasn't too bad.
You see they kind of stayed true to the author of the work George Rape Rape Martin who revels in violence and gore especially directed at woman.
The tourney scenes where they jousted and fought at melee were the most realistic that I have ever seen.
But the real scene stealer believe it or not is a birth scene. Not quite "Call the Midwife."
The Queen has not produced a male heir after several still-borns and miscarriages and crib deaths. So, there is a geriatric pregnancy in the hope of producing a male. The birth scene is horrendous. It rivals the scene where they burned an eleven-year-old girl at the stake while she called for her mother. It is heart wrenching. But probably true to the facts of medieval medicine when the heir to the throne is concerned. You have to see it to believe it.
On balance I think it is worth watching. For now.
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Always struck me as execution porn. And birth was like that up until a century ago.
There's a point of diminishing returns and HBO always seems to find it.
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