Hello and welcome back to still watching the television podcast from Vanity Fair.

We cover entire seasons of the hottest shows on television and right now we are diving

deep into the hottest of them all House of the Dragon the Game of Thrones prequel series

on HBO. I'm Josh Wiggler and to discuss House of the Dragon episode five with me back

from his trip across the narrow sea. It's Richard Lawson Richard. Welcome home. Hello

thank you. Yeah. I was in the very very narrow narrow seas of Venice, which I guess we

just called canals. Mm hmm. Yes. Gosh. I have so many questions for you about Venice.

I want to know if you can confirm. Did he spit on him or not? Did he do it? I handle

all of Chris Pine's wardrobe. So I inspected it heavily afterward and I didn't see anything

but who knows? Okay. All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. Richard, welcome back to the

podcast. You have been missed and you have missed a few big weeks of House of the Dragon

here on the pod. And of course here we are in episode five. The mid point of season

one of House of the Dragon. We like the way another doozy. So how are you feeling at this

point in House of the Dragon? Any catch up thoughts that you want to you want to toss out

there before we're talking about episode five? I mean, I do appreciate just like I went

back and rewatched for in it and you know and five in anticipation of recording with you.

And like, you know, I had said something in my review where like, you know, characters

say something and then two scenes later, the consequences of that are seen. And I kind

of missed the slower story building of the original Game of Thrones series. But actually

rewatching five, I was like, you know what? They actually have been building toward a

lot of this gradually from episode one. So I this episode felt like a big payoff and

glad that I'm here for to record for this one because a lot happens. And I feel like

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