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• Review Showdown: House of the Dragon vs. The Rings of Power (Part 2)

  

  Before we start, let’s have some fun with math! That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say… The first season of The Rings of Power cost approximately $715 million to make.[1] That means that Amazon spent a little less than 10% of Somalia’s GDP to buy 8 episodes of mediocre television. (Honestly, I’m surprised by…

  Will Palmer

  November 26, 2022

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• Review Showdown: House of the Dragon (Eps. 1-4) vs. The Rings of Power (Eps. 1-3)

  

  This contest is going to be organized a bit differently than the last[1] because I’ve made the executive decision to break the discussion into arbitrary categories – you may not know this, but Socrates used the same technique to pad out classroom time. I’ll assign a winner to each category and tally them up at…

  Will Palmer

  September 14, 2022

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