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[Spoilers for Game Of Thrones season 8, episode 4 below.)
Sunday night’s episode of Game Of Thrones was a disappointment to many, with its lackluster plotting exacerbated by the writers’ poor handling of its female characters. As our own Danette Chavez wrote in her review, the combination of Dany’s abrupt downturn, Brienne’s out-of-character sobbing at Jaime’s departure, and Sansa claiming that the assaults she endured were character-building resonates as “another example in Thrones’ long history of underdeveloping female characters or using sexist tropes as shorthand.”