Reviews

Frasier, or even too good for him. She's much better than any other women that he matched with, but he doesn't stay with her. Found this season less than compelling but loved Patricia Clarkson as Claire. Surely the waiters could have done better with her?

Frasier is so dislikable in this episode, fussy and selfish! And then he behaves in a completely stupid, crass way - sleeping with Claire and then dumping her to chase some other woman. Why didn't the writers ever sort out Frasier's problem with women? I despised the character of Frasier after this episode. He should gone and boiled his head!

I'm only giving it two stars because the dragons are fantastic! For a prequel, this is spectacularly way off the mark and sloppy! For a start, the young actors at the beginning of the the season, bear very little resemblance to the actors who take the characters through to the later episodes. This is a particular bug bear of mine and it's LAZY. REALLY LAZY. Who can forget the DREADFUL young Lily in Harry Potter? She looked nothing like Daniel Radcliffe and her eyes were brown, instead of blue! Bad casting. These film makes get paid a bundle, so to miss something SO fundamental is just a poor effort. INCREDIBLY POOR.

I didn't think much of the storyline either, in fact I was quite shocked at how weak the narrative was. It seemed overly contrived and then badly executed. We had been given a few hints in GoT of what was to come, and it seemed so juicy. Warriors riding around on dragons, the Targaryens with their madness, incest and audacity. Should have been a winner. Not stodgy, not lost in the depths of some dusty history.

And why do the internal scenes have to be filmed on some gloomy set? Was there a power shortage ?

Had they no lighting rigs. Did they film in it using the torch app on the crew's phones? It's so bloody dark. Haven't the makers heard of LIGHTING. I know that the director is fond of dark murky looking filming, but get a grip, light your work so that it can be seen. We have a state of the art TV and even it had difficulty in making this watchable. I gave up trying to watch it on my tablet, and others that I have spoken to have had serious problems actually viewing it. What must it be like for anyone with eye sight problems? If a programme is not truly accessible, doesn't that make the programme makers disrespectful of their audience?

And what is up with King's Landing? I know that this tale takes place a few generations before GoT, but the place that they've created has no likeness to the King's Landing of the Lannisters. I know that the maker's switched locations, but with the magic of filming, they could have created somewhere that looks like a historical recreation of King's Landing.

I also think that some of actors were miscast, and as such , I don't think that they were truly credible in this series. There is a clear lack of chemistry between some of the leads who are meant to be romantically linked. Without chemistry, the whole endeavour falls apart. This is a serious concern, so much so that I probably won't watch anymore episodes of this series. That's a shame because it could have been so good, but this dark, badly written, lazily conceived piece of nonsense is just awful.

Not enough Bertha! The episode moves along very well, with one or two surprises. I have come to adore the cast and eagerly wait for all future episodes. The costumes and detailing are sumptuous, the writing on a scope that one can only marvel at. It's my go to TV series, satisfying all of my cravings for drama, intrigue and wit. I am watching it all over again from the start, recovering from surgery and allowing myself to be transported to New York in 1880's. Every time I enter their world, there is another raft of details to excite and delight me. For instance, from watching The Gilded Age, I have done some of my own research, and am now aware of certain facts that I knew nothing about before.