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    Recommendations: House of the Dragon and The Virtuoso

    Oh, dear reader, I’m so frightfully sorry! Here I promise you Larks & Recs each week and when you’ve dutifully checked for our missives these many days, you haven’t found them. Sorry we’ve let you down. This week I’ve got a little recommendation for you of House of the Dragon as spectacle, and Paul’s here […] More

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    House of the Dragon S1E3 — Keeping Up With The Targaryens

    The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon S1E3, “Second of His Name” (written by Gabe Fonseca & Ryan J. Condal & George R.R. Martin and directed by Greg Yaitanes) Three episodes in, House of the Dragon continues to be one of the most confounding shows I have ever watched. Most of the issues […] More

  • Viserys hunches over a table, looking forward in House of the Dragon S1E2
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    House of the Dragon S1E2 Feeds On Nostalgia

    The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon S1E2, “The Rogue Prince” (written by Ryan J. Condal & George R.R. Martin and directed by Greg Yaitanes) Why are we interested in House of the Dragon? For hardcore George R.R. Martin fans the answer is clear enough, but what about the rest of us who […] More

  • Terry, Jake, and the Boyle family gather in the living room
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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine S8E7: “Game of Boyles”

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine S8E7, “Game of Boyles,” confuses me. For starters, there’s that title, clearly meant to be a reference to Game of Thrones. No part of this episode is a reference to Game of Thrones, nor is the episode framed in the style of that show or even as a parody of it. On top […] More

  • Vision looks over his shoulder as Wanda looks on, standing in the street, in WandaVision 'The Series Finale'
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    WandaVision S1E9: The (Not Quite) Series Finale

    Note the title of WandaVision’s ninth and final episode: ‘The Series Finale’. Series. Not season. Series finale. Writer and show-runner Jac Schaeffer goes into the ending of Marvel’s experiment with a conclusion in mind, if such a thing exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Herein lies the curious paradox of the MCU and why some […] More

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    A Love Letter to Game of Thrones Season 4

    Oh, Game of Thrones, you have done me dirty. You have done the world dirty. And worst of all, you have done yourself dirty. It was just last year that you were concluding your epic tale of swords and sorcery with a limp fart, some half-baked excuses about things like “foreshadowing,” and how you honestly […] More

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