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Game Of Thrones Satire

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HBO's Game of Thrones, now six seasons in, is still being called a prestige drama—the most ballyhooed show from the premium cable channel since The Sopranos and perhaps the most widely acclaimed treatment of a fantasy epic since Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings saga. It's also a ratings smash for its premium cable channel. The Season 6 premiere was watched by close to 11 million people—huge numbers in this age of widespread viewer erosion. And that doesn't even count the number of people likely pirating the show: Game of Thrones is regularly listed as the world's most illegally downloaded show, with an estimated 14.4 million downloads for the Season 5 finale alone. But Thrones, despite its liberal use of crowns and swordplay and gruff characters with beards, is far from a Tolkienesque fantasy that boasts noble characters fighting for higher purposes. HBO's show is a gritty, dirty, cynical study of sex, politics and familial intrigue—where all truly is fair in love and war, and where the most honorable character (Ned Stark) was beheaded in the very first season. …show more content…

Around the Iron Throne, honor is relative. In a land in which a nobleman marries his own daughters and leaves his newborn sons as a sort of sacrifice in the woods … a land in which kings demand deadly gladiator bouts to celebrate their "naming day" … a land in which brothel owners "gently" threaten to sell prostitutes to sadistic customers if they don't behave, folks who merely cheat, scheme and sleep around seem pretty decent by

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