In “Love and Death,” you feel the castle walls closing in. Now that the expansion period of The White Queen’s game of thrones has gone the way of Lord Warwick, and there are no more kings to be made, the royal world grows smaller. Every woman character on The White Queen is getting the squeeze, one way or the other. The men are still squeezing themselves. Except for King Edward (Max Irons), he’s dunking his crumpets in someone else’s tea. Master of the obvious moment: When Jaquetta tells Elizabeth that she has to be prepared for her not to be around anymore, Lizzy says, “You’ve been with me through everything.” Of course, that’s her mother and it goes with the biological territory. Speaking of biology, the prerequisite birth of the episode is a difficult birth, you’d think that after dropping like half a dozen kids it would get easier. The biggest squeeze in the castle is happening to Anne Neville (Juliet Aubrey). She is a prisoner of the royal cunt, George (David Oakes), and his duchessy wife, her sister, Lady Isabel Neville (Eleanor Tomlinson). My favorite family dynamic is when Anne tells Isabel that her husband’s about to send her off to a nunnery. She yells, “you’ll never see me again” and Isabel gives her a look like why am I seeing you now? I expected her to say something like “remember when you cut off all my doll’s hair when I was six?” But Anne gets the last laugh and makes marriage loving and profitable. That’s how it goes when it’s kept in the royal family. Den of Geek Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
