On Tuesday, HBO’s CEO Richard Plepler told Vanity Fair that they “screwed up” by introducing Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s project for the network, “Confederate,” in a short press release this summer. “Where we screwed up,” he admitted, “is we tried to announce a complicated subject in a press release.” Though…
Once again, Twitter demonstrates how it has forever changed the way people protest. Whereas once you had to heave your broken body from the couch and take to the streets, you can now relay your message from the comfort of your own home using whatever revolutionary hashtag happens to be trending. Sunday evening saw the…
Episode two of “Game of Thrones” premiered Sunday night and, if the Twitter masses are to be trusted, it was “lit”, as the youths like to say. But wait! What if I showed you something even more lit than Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones”, like this mashup of the “Game of Thrones” music with…
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, two of the showrunners behind HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, came under fire this week after announcing their new HBO drama: a series that imagines a world in which the South won the Civil War and slavery has evolved into a modern day institution. The plot of “Confederate” drew the ire…
HBO announced yesterday that it will be producing “Confederate”, a show that will imagine a world in which the South won the Civil War and slavery is still a legal institution. The series is the brainchild of “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The hype, however, was overshadowed by major ire as…
“Game of Thrones,” the popular medieval fantasy series that one of its creators describes as “‘The Sopranos’ in Middle-earth” — a reference to that other medieval fantasy saga written by a guy with too many R’s in his name, JRR Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” — is full of intrigue and drama, as well as…
After a long wait, “Game of Thrones” will finally air its seventh season on July 16th. And it’s about damn time. If you’re anything like me, these last few months have been dull, boring and far too empty of dragons. Those spring Sundays spent gathered with friends and family, waiting with morbid excitement for beloved…
“Game of Thrones” fans, beware. Spoilers below. Just when you thought HBO’s “Game of Thrones” couldn’t possibly surprise viewers any more, Jewish producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff go ahead and kill off Hodor, perhaps the sweetest, most harmless character in the show’s history. For years, the two have been unapologetically decapitating, dismembering, drawing, quartering,…
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