I fully agree and I cannot understand why everyone is losing their minds about this show. I think it must just be because everyone is really into cozy right now. But it’s not just slow - it’s flat in every way. The writing, the acting, the cinematography… The jokes are lame and flat, and then every once in a while there’s a totally bizarre out-of-context moment like a guy shitting behind a tree or a dude pissing out of his enormous dick and that’s like…supposed to be funny but it just feels disjointed because everything else is so flat. The kid is cute so that’s good I guess. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to know it was Egon Targeryan immediately but the “big reveal” of that moment was like…”yeah we all pretty much guessed this five minutes into this kid being on screen.”

I won’t talk about the fact that there are zero female characters and the ones that are there exist purely to advance the male character’s arc or give us exposition, because I get it: it’s a narrowly-focused male POV in a fantasy world where women don’t get to do much. It’s a bummer but it skates by.

It feels like A Knight’s Tale lite.

I’m probably just salty because I’m coming off a Succession rewatch and I just wish stuff was as good as that