Many recovery programs state that acceptance is the first step towards change—but when it comes to HBO’s Game of Thrones, I humbly disagree. I fully accept my obsessions with Game of Thrones, but that understanding doesn’t change a thing. If anything, the revelation that a large part of my existence [...]

There are few places quite as dreary as Westeros, the setting for George R.R. Martin’s massively popular A Song of Ice and Fire novels and the HBO series Game of Thrones. Unless your barrel of laughs is filled with violent deaths, incest, maimings, rapes, slavery, and crazy priestesses who give [...]