THE FUSE

I thought we were past this bullshit, Game of Thrones. After all the many complaints about the original series’ treatment of women, especially in regards to the many instances of sexual assault in the show, I would have thought House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones spinoff series set more than 100 years before the events of the original show, would take a different tack. I thought the series’ showrunners had come to understand graphically depicting sexual assault was not something a serious television show did anymore. This latest episode of House of the Dragon, though, proved me wrong.