If you loved the first season (and if you have common sense, you DID), there's always this tingling fear when the second season starts that it might not live up to it. Or even worse: downright suck. Now how often has THAT nightmare happened to you, am I right? Let me put your mind at ease: no need for that fear! Not even a little bit. If anything is different it's that I wonder if it didn't just start out even better.
Now I have read the books and loved them. But luckily long ago, enough to not remember every detail no more so the diferences can't annoy me as they always do when I see a movie adaptation too close after reading the book! So that is definitely a good thing, because I'm typically VERY prone to that particular annoyance. Now I can just sit back and enjoy the hell out of this show, and I do.
Man I enjoyed every bloody second of this episode! More than I remember from the first season I felt this episode had many differently colored moments: it was exiting, beautiful, tense, impressive, funny and moving at times. If they keep this up I will be hooked for the whole season. This episode made me want to pick the books up again and I guess I soon will! Don't worry though, I'm a sloooooow reader!
To end this review I'ld like to state something very important to me: I really hope I'm not the only person in the world that totally thinks Ruth Wilson is a bloody AWESOME and fascinating actress to look at! Man I am eating up every second that woman is on screen and I think she wears the role of Miss Coulter like a perfectly fitting dress.
Ruth Wilson can add me to her fanlist for sure!
