Cersei gets pregnant by her brother, and passes the child of as Robert’s. Robert frequently and publicly cheats on Cersei, fathering many children. Cersei never loved Robert, instead preferring (and continuing to sleep with) her twin brother. Robert only agreed to marry a teenage Cersei to win her father’s allegiance in overthrowing the sitting king. There are a lot of similarities between the two – both have tons of infidelity, couples getting married for the wrong reasons, and closeted gay men – but only one can be Sunday’s best advocate for non-monogamy.
But in which show is it worse to be married? We went through both shows, looked through their main marriages, and tried to calculate exactly how awful it’s portrayed by assigning points for awfulness.
There is no fate worse than being one half of a married couple on one of these shows. Though they are set in the most disparate universes possible, Mad Men and Game of Thrones have one major thing in common: Their marriages are terrible.
