Team Edward

Philippa Gregory is an enemy of the state and The Other Boleyn Girl (also The Spanish Princess) is egregiously bad but The White Queen is watchable because Rebecca Ferguson doesn’t miss. They begged her to miss, they’d say Rebecca it’s a dumbshit cable soap based on an even more dumbshit book all you have to do is slam into this wall with a tunnel painted on it but she would show up to work and run into the tunnel like it was real. This is true.

Studying the hundred years war so I can study the war of the roses so I can read Shakespeare so I can read Macchiavelli so I can study the 30 Years War so I can appreciate Rembrandt so I can understand the rise of colonialism as a means of European hegemony so I can read Victor Hugo so I can read Marx so I can read Edward Said so I can read Dune so I can read Fevre Dream so I can read ASOIAF so I can write au fanfiction on the internet

my favorite ongoing bit this season is the comedic timing every time rhaenyra is in the council room yelling mostly to herself and mysaria about all the things she's gonna get done that day and all the decisions she's gonna make by herself in her infinite wisdom as queen to DESTROY the HIGHTOWER TRAITORS and then it immediately cuts to her storming into alicent's chambers to get her piece of daily advice and a peck on the cheek