The Increasingly Egalitarian Nudity on <em>Game of Thrones</em>
Our roundtable on “Kissed by Fire,” the fifth episode of the HBO show’s third season
Every week for the third season of HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones, our roundtable of Ross Douthat (columnist, The New York Times), Spencer Kornhaber (entertainment editor, TheAtlantic.com), and Christopher Orr (senior editor and film critic, The Atlantic) will discuss the latest happenings in Westeros.
Orr: Ygritte, light of my life, fire of my....
Where was I? Oh yes, Episode 5, "Kissed by Fire."
A couple of , Ross noted that he would "respect ' sex scenes more if the leads were disrobing as often as the extras, or if the men were exposed half as often as the women." Well, the promise of that increased respect seems to have been more than showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss could resist. (Alas, Ross is out of pocket this week and will have to forego any victory lap.) Forget the prostitute extras of episodes past: This week featured back-to-back hot tubbing by Jon and Ygritte and Brienne and Jaime, with an added.
