Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

Our fourth ‘Targaryen Checkpoint’ is an endless barrage of beautiful and tragic omens. We discuss these eulogies of decay as heralds of what’s to come – for Ned, for Ki…

House of the Dragon’s second season has come to an end, and we’re back to investigate the finale for all its strange fascinations and inconsistencies. The elephant in …

Here's our thesis for this episode: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about vampires, Grandpa is Dracula, and the rest of the Sawyer family are different shades of Renfiel…

This chapter feels like the mirror image of last week’s Catelyn adventure. Cam starts us off with eight provocative similarities and differences from our new perspectiv…

This one is fascinating -- Jack White surprise released a new album with no title, only on vinyl, and gave it away for free, for one day. Since then, it has blossomed u…

Seven Episodes into Season Two, Cam has finally seen the matrix — and identified the reason why even this fantastic episode feels so different from Season One. This ep…

George R. R. Martin hits another grand slam home run in this bonanza of literary allusions. Cam charts Catelyn’s treacherous journey to the Eyrie through the lens of Da…

Let's not waste any time here: Oddity scared the bejeezus out of Cam, and this episode is his attempt to figure out why exactly his palms were sweating for ninety minut…

This season’s giving us whiplash! “Smallfolk” is a fantastic episode, but there’s something creaking under these floorboards. How much does inconsistency affect audien…

This chapter sits at squarely the dramatic intersection of philosophy and politics. Cam chases down George R. R. Martin’s shockingly unvarnished critique of power. As a…

Cam's swooping in with another mid-week bonus episode! We saw 'Longlegs' again and all of those Doctor Faustus puzzle pieces finally fell into place. He tracks the cont…

Silence is the pervading theme of this episode. Throughout ‘Regent,’ most of our lead characters are ignored, passed over, or lost for words. Our discussion looks at t…

The hype around Longlegs has been some of the most intense we’ve seen for a horror movie in recent years. And for the first time in a long time, this movie lives up to …

We’ve got some peak fantasy in this chapter: dragon skulls, prophetic dreams, climbing through a scary castle – it’s got it all. Maggie starts us off by unspooling Arya…

House of the Dragon’s mid-season finale certainly delivered the goods. But beneath all the screeching, high-flying dragon combat is a bounty of rich character work and…

Our first full-on adventure chapter delivers unexpected heroes, brutal lessons, and deviously ambiguous echoes. Cam examines the sudden Tolkien riffs within Tyrion’s ev…

I swear we’re not trying to be hyperbolic here, but this was the best House of the Dragon episode yet. The show comes roaring back after last week’s stumble, with some…

For a character who’s so often described as “simple”, Ned is proving time and again to be one of the most rewarding to unpack. We start this discussion with different p…

House of the Dragon is not Game of Thrones, but neither is it the same show that it was in Season One. This uneasy evolution has continued to haunt our discussions, an…

Is emotional vulnerability a fatal mistake or a saving grace? Sansa attempts to perform he way through this chapter as a hundred classical fantasy archetypes explode an…