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Writer's Note: Spoilers! You could see this coming a mile away. I avoided all “spoilers” on Monday since I wasn’t able to watch the premiere episode of the Game of Thrones prequel spinoff House of the Dragon until Monday evening. Anywho, after watching the episode, “The Heirs of the Dragon,” while there were sprinklings of post-modern feminism throughout the episode, it wasn’t overwhelming to the point that justified a proper eye-roll. But there was one scene that I just knew was going to be talked about — the primitive C-section scene. The writers couldn’t have made it any clearer that...

A Lotta People Watched the Dragon Show HBO’s House of the Dragon is off to a stellar start in the ratings: 10 million viewers across all of the network’s platforms streamed Sunday’s premiere of the first Game of Thrones spinoff series. That’s easily the largest audience for a series in the HBO Max era, and according to the network, it’s the best opening night for any HBO original series ever, though changes in how ratings are tabulated make comparisons tough. But whatever the specifics, the big takeaway seems to be that Dragon took flight right out of the gate and...

•After months of anticipation, the brand new Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, is finally here - and it certainly did not disappoint •The first episode premiered on HBO Max on Sunday, August 21, and in true GoT fashion, it was filled with explicit nudity, erotic sex scenes, bloody gore, undertones of incest, and a few brutal murders • GoT was known for being filled with blood, guts, and gore, depictions of graphic violence, intimate sex scenes, and naked bodies - and the spinoff seems like it will be filled with much of the same •The 10-episode...