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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is the Prettiest Show on TV
The first shot in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms—the new, shorter, lighter spin-off from the Game of Thrones universe—is of three horses. Standing in the rain in front of a grassy hill bisected by a muddy track, one horse faces directly toward the camera, one a little out toward the viewer’s right (around 45 degrees) and one almost perpendicular to the first horse. It’s a well-composed shot that looks like a painting. The second shot is much wider—the hill the horses are standing on is now on our left, with the horses revealed to be underneath a wizened tree toward the top of it, and on the right there’s a distant mountain, whose slope mirrors that of the closer hill, so that the bottom of each meet in the middle of the screen. At the bottom of the closer hill, under a marbled sky, a large figure digs. After a few shovelfuls, he trudges up the hill, lifts a body from the ground beside the horses, and turns to carry it back down to …
