Episodes

Monday Feb 07, 2022
Episode 173: A STORM OF SWORDS, DAENERYS II: ”Legion (Part 2)”
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
- Take stock of Dany's different kinds of power
- Analyze her relationship with Irri given that power
- Revisit Dany's dragons as her subconscious feelings given form
- Talk about her complex feelings toward Jorah
- Explore the system of the slave trade

Monday Jan 31, 2022
Episode 172: A STORM OF SWORDS, DAENERYS II: ”Legion (Part 1)”
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
- Introduce Slaver's Bay as the major new setting in ASOS
- Dig into the hellish imagery of Astapor specifically
- Explore the cultural context of the history and language used here
- Take stock of the horrors involved in the training of the Unsullied
- Analyze Barristan's role in Dany's decision-making process

Monday Jan 24, 2022
Episode 171: A STORM OF SWORDS, ARYA IV: ”The Merry Men”
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
- Follow Arya with the BWB and see the resistance movement in the Riverlands
- Discuss the realities of the BWB: its noble methods but its lack of an endgame
- Enter the magical world of the Riverlanders living in the trees
- Analyze one of the best one-chapter characters Lady Smallwood
- Answer the question about who the Ghost of High Heart is

Monday Jan 17, 2022
Special Episode: ”Sons of Fire”
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022

Monday Jan 10, 2022
Episode 170: A STORM OF SWORDS, JAIME III: ”Shall We Dance”
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
- Arrive at Maidenpool to find the town sacked and the castle locked
- Wave farewell to Cleos Frey, who dies as he lived: without dignity
- Break down how Jaime's certainties falter throughout his duel with Brienne
- Trace the shifting dynamics as Jaime fails to take control of the Mummers
- Reframe the Jaime-Brienne duel as it actually is: as a sex scene

Monday Jan 03, 2022
Episode 169: A STORM OF SWORDS, CATELYN III: ”Fallen Kingdom”
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
- Analyze Rickard Karstark, his reasons and his weak-ass rationale for child murder
- See how Robb Stark is reacting emotionally to the fall of his kingdom
- Dread alongside of Catelyn at the loss of the Karstarks and what this means for the Stark cause
- Revel (slightly) in Robb Stark's frontier justice but realize that ultimately one execution won't right all the wrongs in the world
- See the false ray of hope in Jeyne's hips by chapter's end
- Discuss whether Robb was right here

Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021

Monday Dec 20, 2021
Episode 168: A STORM OF SWORDS, TYRION III: ”Hands of Gold”
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
- Watch the members of the Small Council play musical chairs
- Analyze how Tywin and the Lords of the Reach play politics with the North
- Chuckle and wince as Littlefinger uses his little finger to unlock the Vale
- Break down the Lannister family dynamics
- Shiver with fear as the Red Wedding approaches

Monday Dec 13, 2021
Episode 167: A STORM OF SWORDS, SAMWELL I: ”The Terror (Part 2)”
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
- Engage our senses on the Battle of the Fist of the First Men
- Empathize with Samwell with all the horror he's experienced and is experiencing.
- Remember the bear!
- Triumph alongside of Samwell as he kills the first Other in thousands of years
- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls

Monday Dec 06, 2021
Episode 166: A STORM OF SWORDS, SAMWELL I: ”The Terror (Part 1)”
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
- Break down how George structures the reveal of what happened at the Fist
- Praise the formal experimentation of interweaving past and present
- Shiver in fear at the exquisite tone of dread a la Stephen King and found footage
- Analyze Sam as a POV, as his stress and self-loathing keeps breaking the surface
- Frame this chapter as a taste of things to come for Westeros when the Wall falls