WiC Weekly: January 1-7

This week at WiC, we look back over hundreds of years of Targaryen rule, preview The Last of Us, discuss the biggest genre shows coming in 2023, and more.

Time for the first WiC Weekly of 2023! What happened during the first seven days of 2023? We’ll tell you, starting with Netflix’s first cancelation of the year:

The Targaryen dynasty ruled Westeros for 283 years. Here is our ultimate ranking of all 18 monarchs, ranked from worst to best.

Speaking of Targaryens, here’s a very gossipy explanation for why Miguel Sapochnik quit as the showrunner on HBO’s House of the Dragon:

Listen to audiobooks from Audible? Us too. Let us complicate that for you:

The ninth and final season of The Flash is on the way! And The CW is pulling out all the stops:

Claire Foy starred alongside Matt Smith in The Crown, so she felt obligated to watch House of the Dragon as a friend. It was rough going, though.

Vikings: Valhalla creator Jeb Stuart hopes to tell a saga as long and epic as Michael Hirst’s original 6-season Vikings series!

The Last of Us won’t stretch itself out to fill time (*cough* The Walking Dead) nor make stuff up once it runs out of material (*cough* Game of Thrones).

For years, video game adaptations were panned as universally bad. That’s not really true anymore, but The Last of Us can bring something new: prestige.

Finally, we preview the year in TV. There’s a lot:

Stick around all week for lots more where that came from!

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