Game of Thrones: Season 2Follow

Have you seen an episode of True Blood?

No. IIRC the last HBO thing I watched was Deadwood. That was good.

By the time Melisandre spread-eagled herself on the floor of a cave and agonizingly gave birth to the smoke monster from Lost,

I've got a friend who goes on about The Wire, I've promised him I'll get around to watching it. AFAIK it was never aired here, though.

I'll check it out this summer.

My issue with Season 2 is that it doesn't exactly fit in with the narrative of the series as a whole &, except for a couple of brief cameos, little from season 2 effects the later seasons. Not only that, but it interrupts the "flow" of the series as unlike the characters introduced in the first season, pretty much none of the characters in Season 2 are relevant to anything going on outside of season 2 (except for the "Greek").

Andy Greenwald is going to be crushed at the death of Gay King Renly.

In a different sort of show, Gethin Anthony’s hilariously high-spirited performance as Renly, the horny, queeny kinda-king would have been allowed to stretch out and stay awhile. Maybe he never would have made it to the Iron Throne, but I could at least see him lounging lazily on one made of crushed velvet, continually outwitting his dull sibling Stannis, and dropping gasp-inducing zingers while having his bo-hunk brother-in-law drop his chain mail trousers. Good characters are not in short supply in Westeros, thankfully, but good, funny characters are. So it was a disappointment, though certainly not a surprise, to see Renly taken from behind not five minutes into “The Ghost of Harrenhal.” The culprit wasn’t randy Sir Loras, though, it was Renly’s own smoky nephew, who breezed into the tent on the back of a windstorm and managed to solidify just enough to puncture the youngest Baratheon’s lusty heart. Goodbye, Renly. In another story, you’d be an anchor. But in this predetermined one, you’re merely a footnote.