House of the Dragon Finally Has Its Joffrey

It’s tough to pick a most terrible Targaryen brother, but one's got the edge.

Whew, Jack! That was one of the most melancholy episodes of a GoT show I’ve ever seen. Last week, Alicent Hightowerbelt, thanks to the tense scene in which she threatens to mutilate Lucerys Valeryon, a literal child, to repay him for the loss of her second son Aemond’s eye—an eye Aemond lost fair and square, in my opinion, after picking a fight with his nephews.

, right down to Olivia Cooke’s performance, which at times seems to borrow whole postures and facial expressions from Lena Headey’s turn as Cersei. This resemblance includes having to deal with a son who is an abject piece of shit, in young Aegon Targaryen, whose preening dickishness and penchant for sexual violence carry strong whiffs of short-lived King Joffery Baratheon. Aegon sucks so much that he makes his younger brother, who just last week, seem like a paragon of virtue in comparison.

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