Julia and Kylie finally take a break from adaptation shaming to gush about A Song of Ice and Fire, this time with the help of their guest Gretchen! What is it that makes George R.R. Martin's close-PoV structure so compelling? To them, it's the way that the he is able to utilize the toxically patriarchal setting to explore character biases for incredibly feminist take-aways.

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Episode Breakdown:
* 0:00 - Intro & explanation of "patriarchy brain"; * 17:03 - Cat; * 30:40 - Arys; * 39:30 - Vic/Aeron & Barry; * 50:47 - Cersei; * 1:03:00 - Tyrion, Sam, & Ned; * 1:19:49 - Brienne & Arya; * 1:30:00 - Sansa; * 1:41:40 - Asha & Arianne