Game of Thrones – Season 2: while beautifully produced (the diverse locations are a marvel, costume and set design are strong and diverse), this season was uneven and unfocused, with too little time for the stronger, more interesting characters. The problem may be with the source book. Probably with a 10-episode season, one can’t do much better, but the choice to tell it in that many episodes (while economically understandable) is to blame. As the source material continues to expand, […]

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Game of Thrones – Season 1: quite an accomplishment: impressive production values, tonal consistency throughout the whole season and an able display of navigating the big set of characters. (They have their work cut out for them, as the number of characters and settings grow exponentially in the following volumes.) There’s something to be said about the excessive violence, but that’s keeping pace with the original material.

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