The Real Events That Inspired the Greatest Show on Earth
In honor of tonight’s US premiere of The White Queen on Starz, I’ve created a new site about The White Queen: history-behind-the-white-queen.com.
I’ve also added a White Queen Cheat Sheet and an Episode 1 Viewer’s guide to the site.
The site is still a beta and under constructions. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the web programming.
My intention is to merge the two sites eventually.
For quite some time, I have been meaning to write an article about Game of Thrones‘ fantastic Emmy win. Yes, I realize the news cycle has passed, but I still think the win is superb and long overdue recognition of fantasy as a genre. In the meantime, however, I found this article sitting on my hard drive, so I thought I would publish it. While rewatching some episodes of The Sopranos, I noticed some references to the Middle Ages and became…
