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've only watched the first 3 episodes, and I've enjoyed them. I did read the Dunk and Egg books, year ago, and I don't really remember much about them.
I know it's HBO and violence and sex is kind of their thing, but I wish it would be toned down a little. I think my wife would enjoy watching the show, but she was out the second Dunk started spraying diarrhea in the first episode.
I found the giant dong pretty funny, not going to lie. Apparently the producers said they felt like they had kind of shit all over Ser Arlen and wanted to give the guy SOMETHING good in his life!
My other complaint is rather minor, but still. You're going for realism in this series, right? So there's a tournament that starts at night? There's no way they would be jousting in the dark. LITERALLY UNWATCHABLE.