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We're nearing the end. Not that anyone expected it when 1989 rolled around, but hindsight is a bitch.
We' re continuing our series and talk about the FRG in the 1980s.
We're reviewing the final episode of the season. What I show!
We talk about the big event, of course, but there's also a huge discussion about the worth of flashbacks and we even add a little addendum a...
Payoffs are coming. We talk about the emotional impact this episode had.
We review the third episode of a show that's just getting stronger every week, and giving you some sound structural reasons as to why!
We review the second episode.
We are reviewing the first episode of the Dunk&Egg saga! Follow us along interpreting the new Laughing Storm and Dunk's extremely serious na...
Without any reason in HBO's programming schedule whatsoever, we tackle the "Hedge Knight" and its value system.
In our 11th episode of the subseries about the history of the divided Germany, we're looking at East Germany from 1973 to 1989 - the era nam...
In this episode, I take Grant Piercy, better known as Heathen King, to task. We talk about revenge in ASOIAF and in the real world, as well....
It is the day of days - we're tackling one of the biggest chapters yet. Who are the three heads of the dragon? What are the betrayals? Who's...
Is there good and evil in ASOIAF, or is just a morally grey mass and mess? I take this up with Quinn the GM, who made a very instructive vid...
Today, we're taking a look at the detente between West and East Germany. What were the factors breaking the deadlock in domestic and interna...
Jon's death comes as a big surprise for first-time readers, and not because it's sprung on you but because Martin is a damn good writer. We...
We’re talking about the Whispering Wood, and come off with one fundamental insight: GRRM is a good writer.
I’m talking to Artyom Nichipurov from Wolffdesigna Games, a Latvian firm that’s most famous for the excellent “Guards of Atlantis II”, a tab...
Today, we're talking about the period from 1966 to 1974. Witness the Grand Coalition and the coming into power of Willy Brandt, heading the...
Today, we’re covering the first half of the history of the Democratic Republic of Germany - or East Germany, to its friends. From the earlie...
In our ongoing series on the best moments of the series, we take apart the Bridge of Dream sequence, which provides us with some unusualy ch...
Today, we're looking at why the CDU could rule for 20 years in the early German republic. There's a good combination of electoral shenanigan...
From the Berlin airlift to the Berlin wall, this episodes covers Germany’s capital (and the capital of spies) from wall to wall.
Everyone and their mother knows Dungeons&Dragons, at least in concept. But few people know the most important German roleplaying game, “The...
This is our 200th episode. Of course we wanted to do something special. George R. R. Martin asked us if he could guest host, but we were too...
We’re back again! With Jim McGeehin, I talk about the founding of not one but two German states. We’ll have a look at why we’re creating two...
After 11 months, we’re back talking the history of the divided Germany! After looking at western Germany last time round, this time, we’re t...
The season finale is here! Sean and I have a slightly different view about it, but as is our wont, we agree on a lot, and the show stays sup...
There’s a lot of dragons this episode, and we’re comparing the show to Better Call Saul, The Americans and Halt and Catch Fire, because that...
Three days, and there’s good news (even earlier if you’re a Patreon!): HotD is STILL one of the best things on TV right now. This episode, c...
“House of the Dragon” continues to be excellent in this laid-back but still incredibly rich and textured episode. We discuss shot compositio...
The dragons danced and died, but Stefan skipped town. Yet Sean is not flying solo! Friend of the show Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed...
This may just be the best episode of a great show yet. Sean and I discuss why in exhaustive and euphoric detail. Also, more detail than you...
Now we’re in episode 2. Who won? Ser Arryk or Ser Erryk? We’re not confused. Because we care about themes.
You didn’t think we’d miss this, right? Weekly episodes, from now on, on the regular channel! Listen to us how we discuss the most important...
We finally did it and continue the “Best of ASOIAF” series. It’s a crowd pleaser, Daenerys’ “Dracarys” moment, which also marked a turning p...
In a special, political episode, I talk with political operative Frank Spring about the upcoming presidential elections. If you don’t want p...
Sean has written a list of the top ten TV shows of 2023 ( https://decider.com/2023/12/29/sean-t-collinss-top-10-tv-shows-of-2023/ ), and we’...
Oppenheimer has been released on BlueRay. Having missed it in cinema and after covering Barbie with Sean, I’ll now took BLAH veteran and nuc...
Ridley Scott’s new epic “Napoleon” sure is divisive and polarizing. It takes two historians to get the definitive judgement on the movie, an...
With Zero Hour dealt with, we’re looking at how the Western Allies laid the foundations for the democratization of Western Germany. From the...
In a crossover with Javi Marcos, you’re getting an episode in which he interviews me.
Jim and I started a new subseries in our ongoing coverage of German history. This time, we will cover the divided Germany after World War II...
With board game designer Bryan Kromrey, I talk about the adaptation of the famous RTS “Company of Heroes”, how the modern Kickstarter econom...
Origin stories are a Hollywood trope. Oftentimes, they’re rote and uninteresting, but if done right, they can recontextualize and enrich cha...
Finally, we’re in the home stretch. From the peace of Brest-Litovsk to the Kaiserschlacht offensive to the breakdown of the Central Powers a...
In the next installment of our ongoing series, we talk about Bran’s Dream from AGOT, Bran III. It’s a testament to Martin’s abilities as a g...
We continue into the year 1917! This time, our focus is not on tactics, strategy, weapons and stuff but on the epochal events of the Russian...
We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1916. The battles of Verdun and the Somme are the most famous, and we’re giving them...
It was only a question of time until we hit one of the most profound and meaningful pieces of text in the whole ASOIAF corpus, but we did it...
This is special episode. I have been challenged by Kienn Joiaf to defend my assertion that Lyanna Stark is the Knight of the Laughing Tree a...