[s3e4] | Happy Yule!

Lord Alaric and Lady Elara’s verbal sparring over the feast table provides the episode’s best dialogue.

We spend significant time in the kitchens and barracks, seeing how the "small folk" celebrate with stolen wine and bawdy songs.

Yule traditionally demands a truce, and the writers use this beautifully. For forty minutes, blood enemies are forced to share bread.