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...
Eh, while I agree with you that it's much, much less woke than House of the Dragon (which, to my shame, I also watched), there is some woke stuff in there. The title character is in love with two (mulatto) black girls, one of which wasn't black or even a girl in the book (I'm told, never read), and I don't know about the other one.
Also not a fan of the vulgarity - there is no reason to show the guy's ass (which they did three times in the first episode) or his bowel problems.
Let's not lower our standards because the stuff has been so off-the-charts terrible in the past few years.
But still I find it enjoyable. While obviously not faithful to the medieval era, it does a good job of being more realistic than normal. I like the writing, and people who read the books say that a lot of it is straight from the books.
You didn’t like the part where he discussed fisting with a ten year old boy?
I thought it was bad enough that they were singing about it. And then they just piled on that. I would have minded it less if it were historically accurate, but I'm pretty sure men in the middle ages weren't singing about girls sticking their ...