Five out of six episodes in the books. Thus far? Virtually every major character is both white and male. No gay shit. No girl boss shit. Positive portrayals of men and masculinity. Minimal or no millennial writing. The show appears to be unapologetically targeting the traditional male audience. It's a complete 180 from the last decade of feminized DEI trash.
How did this get approved??
More seriously: yes, this is undoubtedly the "reconciliation" phase of the leftist takeover. We're expected to come crawling back to Hollywood because they've been magnanimous enough to offer us a few scraps of quality targeted entertainment.
But look at the bright side: imagine how miserable these woke executives and producers must have been reading scripts and watching dailies that featured almost no women, minorities, or gays lol
Forgot to add: the show is universally beloved online. Gee, I wonder why...
I watched the first five episodes last night with a friend, it was better than I expected, but it still carried the taint of modern writing. The love interests both being brown, the crowd shots all having a sprinkling of diversity, and every episode has had one explicit shitting/pissing/vomiting scene.
And the worst thing is this too is adapted from a book series GRRM hasn't finished yet, so if the series outpaces the published material, I'm sure it's going to crater as hard as Game of Thrones did.