Fandom reaction to HBO‘s debut season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has been nearly universally positive.
But there’s one ugly element of the show’s praise that’s largely flown under the radar.
Late in the six-episode season’s run, a narrative began to take hold on social media that the show was doing well because it was “non-woke” compared to certain other recent fantasy and sci-fi shows because it centers on two white male characters, Dunk and Egg (played by Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell), both of whom are portrayed in a very positive and heroic light. One part of the show that didn’t align with this viewpoint was the casting of Tanzyn…