Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

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…

Catelyn Stark might just be the most complex and rewarding characters in A Game of Thrones. This chapter is a cascade of memories and breadcrumbs that simultaneously re…

In the space of a single chapter, Ned Stark has gone from a bumbling amateur detective to Batman -- or has he? In this episode, we look at Ned's unsteady relationship w…

Oh these are our favorite type of episodes: falling in love with a work of art we didn’t expect to care about at all. Shout out to Tristan for bullying us into watching…

Samwell Tarly joins the narrative just in the nick of time, as an unlikely answer to the existential and immaterial problems threatening Westeros. Cam argues that Sam e…

Furiosa is massively different than Fury Road. The tone, the pacing, the style of characterization — our first viewing was largely a process of adjustment and recalibra…

The question that hung over Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was simple. What can this film offer that is different or better than Fury Road? As it turns out, the answer is Chri…

Ned Stark may already be dead. In this chapter, Littlefinger eulogizes him to his face, capping off a series of three failed initiations into the world of liars and cro…

Oh it feels so good to say this: Diablo IV has never been better than it is in Season 4. Loot Reborn is a full-scale reworking of the game’s core systems. The gameplay …

In his own words, this chapter had Cam feeling “puckish”. Forgoing all the traditional ambiguities and symbols, he focuses on the character trend that quietly runs thro…

The Fall Guy feels like a passion project about passion -- it's a love letter to stuntmen, artistic craft, and the fading genre of romantic action comedies. It's also t…

This third 'Targaryen Checkpoint' delivers a whole new level of prophetic, high-concept imagery for us to discuss. Maggie focuses in on Dany and Viserys as avatars of t…

Every Arya chapter is Valjean screaming “Who am I?” at the audience, but this one in particular really is a carousel of futures. Cam examines the half dozen personas ex…

This week we’re all the way at the edge of the world, and what do we find? Shakespeare! More specifically, Cam gets to talk about the Old Man archetype, which crops up …

The Tortured Poets Department isn’t “about” anyone. This episode is an interrogation of that painfully wrong-headed way we talk about the biggest artist in the world. I…

Ned just made it to King’s Landing, and it’s already a disaster. Maggie investigates Ned’s first day as Hand of the King, wondering how out of his depth he truly is, an…