That’s a you problem then mate

Second half drag? Bro they gave us so much backstory from like 20 pages! The first eight episodes before >!viserys’ death!< is like the prologue in dance of dragons and probably only like 20 pages. Its like a layout of the events leading up to it. And they translated it to screen pretty nicely. The real story of the dance of dragons begins after that and its pretty good we got the prologue since ryan and grrm wanted to do it and convinced hbo to. Hbo reportedly wanted to start the show right after >!viserys’ death!<

What do you mean? Under the banner of heaven has some impeccable acting performances. Wyatt russell absolutely kills it in his supporting role. Daisy edgar jones, billy howle & denise gough also give pretty good supporting performances. And andrew garfield & sam worthington gave absolutely terrific performances as the two leads.

Slow Horses & We Own This City were okay but Under of The Banner of Heaven & Black Bird are two of the best shows of the year imo. Black Bird easily has one of the best televsion acting performances of the past few years.

In my personal opinion- arcane is the much better show out of the two but edgerunners is easily the best video game adaptation if you get what I mean.

Better call saul, the bear, hotd, barry, trying, black bird, severance, under the banner of heaven, andor, my brilliant friend, cp edgerunners, this is us, heartstopper, station eleven, boys, peacemaker, reacher, rehearsal, stranger things, we own this city, westworld, the white lotus, slow horses, 1899, crown, pam & tommy, tokyo vice and a few others.

Seems like a pretty fucking great year. I’ll even say 2022 was a really fucking great year for the two other forms of media too-

Games- god of war ragnarok, elden ring, witcher 3 next gen, stray, horizon forbidden west

Movies- aftersun, top gun maverick, eeaao, batman, tar, cha cha real smooth, the fablemans, banshees of insherin, all quite on the western front, bones & all and many others.

Haven’t seen Wednesday so can’t comment on that but HOTD isn’t overrated. Its not a masterpiece or anything like GoT S1-4 but its easily ten times better than anything in S5-8 and easily the best fantasy shows out of all the plethora of fantasy shows these days. Its pretty good imo. And a mostly faithful and respectful adaptation.

You and I would be good friends. Things like these is one of my favourite parts about movies, shows and video games. When the acting, cinematography and visual storytelling together can convey emotions without the use of normal and bad dialogue to explain things. I just love it. Its rare but I love it. One of my favourite things about acting alongside monologues. One of the recent examples of this imo was Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen in Episode 3 of House of the Dragon. Bro didn’t speak a single word during the whole final act but we could just know the Daemon’s emotions in that scene but Matt Smith’s acting.

I’m excited. She was incredible in Godless. Even with Carrie Coon’s extraordinary performance in Leftovers Season 3 & Claire Foy literally becoming Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown Season 2, My Best Lead Actress for 2017 was Michelle Dockery for Godless.

There have been so many great shows with great intros it’ll take days to mention them all so I’m just gonna mention recent releases and ongoing shows with great intros. But tbh I mostly never skip a good intro. I’m a sucker for long ass opening credits

House of the Dragon, Succession, The White Lotus, Peacemaker, Severance, Black Bird, Tokyo Vice, Bad Sisters, The Mosquito Coast, The Peripheral, The Crown & Only Murders in the Building.

Big Sky is such a fucking trash show in every aspect.

I’ve only seen 4 episodes as of now and this would be my ranking of then-

1. The Autopsy
2. Graveyard Rats
3. Lot 36
4. The Outside

Please no