Game of Thrones: The Lion and the Rose – Recap

Season 4; Episode 2 “Not so pretty now.” ***Spoilers Are Coming*** Welcome to Joffrey and Margery’s Wedding plebs, or as I like to call THE NO CHILL OLYMPICS

Cats were tossin that shade around like they were getting scored on that shit by the judges at table assignment #8. AYEBODY could get it at the wedding, and the master of not giving one negotiable fuck was Joffrey…I know you want to talk about it, but not yet… What gets lost with these huge momentous episodes where someone really important dies, is that its often forgotten how great the episode was BEFORE someone got that express pass to one of the 7 hells (or only one, if you let Melisandre spit her shit). And this was a great episode before Joffrey started spittin them choke bars. That hot poison 16. That Kendrick Lamar Control Foam at the mouth, that,…yeah, you get the point. We’ll come back to the wedding, but this episode should get props alone for making the Theon (Reek) and Bran Stark story-lines worth watching. If there was a big flaw last season, it was forcing that Ramsay Snow / Theon scenes on us as them cats LITERALLY went in a circle in the forest and the torture porn was a bit heavy. They also gave us our first site of Bran interacting with the weirwood, and catchin them visions like Jean Grey (whenever she’s alive).

And lets not forget Dragonstone to check in with Stannis for the first time this season. You can always tell we’re in Dragonstone because they are always burning a muthafucka aliv…