The most shocking thing about the most graphic birth scene on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series, “House of the Dragon,” is that it wasn’t shocking at all.
Showrunners have spent the entire first season of the drama vilifying motherhood and making childbirth a bloody, torturous affair that frequently ended in death. It’s not that these assertions about birth before modern medicine are incorrect – it’s just notable that series creators did little to balance out that narrative with scenes of women delivering their children without a heaping side of trauma.
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