Game of Thrones?

Sorry I have never seen that show.

Warning, do not read the article linked above unless you saw last week's Game of Thrones. Also don't read it if you never saw the movie American Psycho. Or read the book. Actually if you are like me and just saw the movie American Psycho but never read the book, you will be fine.

And if you have seen last week's episode, and therefore can and now have read that article, allow me to  retort.

Comparing Game of Thrones to American Psycho is an insult to George R. R. Martin.  The show is based on an amazing series of books, A Song of Ice and Fire.  The series features many sadistic characters and numerous horrifying and disgusting scenes depicting extreme violence.  But it has a point.  Martin is challenging the entire fantasy genre, pretty much defined by J.R.R. Tolkien (side note: why do both of those assholes have "R.R." as middle names?).  Martin isn't telling your traditional good vs. evil, black and white, standard fantasy story.  Rather, he is created a world featuring wealthy and powerful noble families, none of them completely good or completely evil.  They are waging a war not to "save the realm" from some unspeakable evil, rather they are all driven by their own power hungry ambition to defeat each other and reign supreme.    And in the process, they inflict horrible atrocities on each other and cause unending suffering on all of the peasant folk. 

American Psycho?  Bret Easton Ellison is a no-talent ass clown.  I just watched the movie Human Centipede 2 this weekend, and I turned it off, not because of the horrifying and disgusting scenes it portrayed, but because it was just so bad.  There was simply nothing entertaining about it.  Tom 6 is a complete hack who does not know how to tell a story and he tried to make his piece of garbage a story by throwing in some extremely graphic, disgusting, and extreme violence.  But the shock value doesn't get the viewer past the fact that the movie is a complete waste of time.  Which is exactly what Bret Easton Ellison's American Psycho is.  "Let's describe a bunch of whores getting brutally murdered and then list in exquisite detail the attire a character is reading, this is so edgy, I am such a great author."  The only difference between Ellis and Tom 6 is apparently Ellis had a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog lying around his apartment when he wrote his piece of garbage.

George R.R. Martin's work has redefined a genre and he will go gown as one of the great authors of our generation.  No one will remember Bret Easton Ellis in 25 years.