Swords and Sex Game of Thrones HBO, Sundays, 9 PM “Winter is Coming” Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed by Tim Van Patten In April of 2011, two lavishly produced television series set in the past debuted, one on Showtime and one on HBO. One of them is about a struggle for power among petty kings, accompanied by poisonings, bribery, treachery, assassination, bastards, incest, and rape. The other one is about the Borgias. I found one thing hilarious and one thing disturbing about the premiere of HBO’s much-hyped series, Game of Thrones. The hilarious thing was the producers’ straight-faced…
