I've always been on the cusp of getting into fantasy novels and television, and Game of Thrones could prove my gateway drug
I don't think I can risk watching more than the first episode demanded for professional purposes of Game of Thrones. I've always been on the cusp of getting into fantasy novels and television (I think it was only thanks to the profoundly deadening experience of having to take it in turns round a class of 30 disaffected teenage girls to read The Hobbit in secondary school that saved me from an adolescence mired in Middle Earth), and this could prove my gateway drug. Because it has not only an expensive abundance ? every penny spent since an adaptation of George RR Martin's novels was first mooted is clearly up on screen ? of all the necessary accoutrements, from medievally vibing homespun cloaks and leather jerkins, to timeless snowy wastelands to bloody decapitations by magical tribes who vanish as mysteriously as they appear, to bloody internecine disputes over the local Iron Throne (postcode, Westeros), it is also ? oh, what is the word? Oh yes ? good.
It's got good actors up the wazoo ? even if their presence in something so fundamentally absurd (and I meant that in such a good way) does sometimes cause you to whistle softly under your breath when they appear ? from Iain Glen to Donald Sumpter to Roger Allam, via Mark Addy, Aidan Gillen and, as the head of the leading dynasty Eddard Stark, some bloke who has apparently eaten Sean Bean.
It's got style, panache and moves along at a fair old clip, and has added Spartacus levels of gratuitous breast-flashing (and they seem to be natural. Between these two series and Mad Men, women in Hollywood must be under unprecedented pressure to have their silicone sets whipped out until the Past passes out of fashion), and sex-having, mostly in turrets, mostly with close relatives, which cannot help but make things more entertaining.
Oh, who am I kidding? There's leather jerkins, Sean Bean and a really nasty brother offering up his sister to the Dothraki to aid his claim to the throne. Set the series link. I'm back next and every week for sure.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/19/game-of-thrones-lucy-mangan
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