Medievally Speaking reviews: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Please find the most recent review, of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, at Medievally Speaking. Kevin J. Harty, one of the world experts on film and medievalia, writes:

HBO/HBO Max’s six-part series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is based on the first of three novellas by George R. R. Martin usually referred to collectively as the Tales of Dunk and Egg. The formula is that of a buddy film or series, or even a bromance. Paired are a hulking, rather thick hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, a.k.a. Dunk (Peter Claffey), and a precocious bald-headed boy, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), who serves as his squire.

Hedge knights are the most errant of knights errant, wandering the Seven Kingdoms in search of lords to serve and deeds of derring-do to carry out. Theirs is a rough, unsatisfying, and unheralded life. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE