The Factuary: ‘Game of Thrones’ is “Downton Abbey with Rape and Dragons”

The Fac­tu­ary is quickly becom­ing one of my new favorite YouTube shows. It’s a series of con­densed “every­thing you need to know about ran­dom sub­ject X” videos cre­ated, writ­ten and hosted by Guy Branum for Thrash Lab . It’s great for busy peo­ple with two jobs, a busy gam­ing sched­ule who also run a blog (know any­body like that?) to get caught up on pop cul­ture knowl­edge and digest books, TV shows and other media with com­pli­cated sub­ject matter.

Oh, and did I men­tion they’re fuck­ing hys­ter­i­cal? Take this 2:44 minute explainer for Game of Thrones, for example:

(SPOILER ALERT!)

Here’s some other sub­jects I found enlight­en­ing: Tupac Shakur vs. Noto­ri­ous B.I.G  and the  Evo­lu­tion of Dub­step .

New episodes of The Fac­tu­ary arrive every Thursday.

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