Little Gold Men

Can Game of Thrones Stick the Landing?

On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, a look at the HBO hit series, plus discussion of The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Logan Lucky.
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One glimpse at the VF.com homepage will tell you it’s high season for Game of Thrones, and Joanna Robinson has been all over every detail, from Sansa’s mysterious letter to the obscure book details that may predict the future of the show. We‘re all as obsessed with Game of Thrones as we’ve ever been, but is the show still . . . good? “You’re really seeing the different kind of show it is now,“ Joanna says on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast. “They’re in their comfort zone when they’re showing you amazing dragons and all that kind of stuff, and then when they have to do the character-driven dialogue-heavy scenes, they are struggling a little bit.“

The Little Gold Men team goes on to discuss the current season of Game of Thrones, as well as what’s coming in the final season, with a few bold predictions about how we’d like to see things shake out. Also on this week‘s episode: a look at the spooky new trailer for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and a conversation with VF.com contributor Jordan Hoffman about his conversation with Steven Soderbergh, who is back to directing feature films with this weekend‘s Logan Lucky. As Richard Lawson wrote in his review, Logan Lucky is an Appalachian-tinged spin on the Ocean’s Eleven caper, and proves just how good Soderbergh still is at making a crowd-pleaser. As Jordan found out in his conversation with Soderbergh, he knows exactly how to leave audiences happy: “Fellini used to say ‘figure out a way to somehow get all the characters together at the end of a movie.‘”

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