Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussed the Game of Thrones finale with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a video posted to Twitter. | Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t yet announced who she thinks should occupy the Oval Office after the 2020 election. But she and Elizabeth Warren sure aren’t happy with who ended up on the Iron Throne.
The New York Democrat teamed with the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate to offer some frustrated commentary on the finale of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which ended its eight-season run Sunday night in a finale that left many of its legions of viewers, and a few lawmakers, less than satisfied.
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“So did you see Game of Thrones last night?” Warren asked Ocasio-Cortez in a minute-long clip tweeted from the senator’s account, in which the pair doesn’t mention policy or partisan talking points or any politics but the Westerosi kind.
“I did. I’m sad. I’m disappointed about it,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.
Added Warren: “I was just really, ‘Meh.’”
Warren’s campaign is waging an intense shadow primary against fellow White House hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for Ocasio-Cortez’s presidential endorsement. But the closest the pair got to the 2020 race was the freshman congresswoman’s remark that she’d have preferred to see one of the show’s female protagonists wind up ruling the Seven Kingdoms.
“I feel like we were getting so close to having this ending with just women running the world,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“Exactly,” Warren interjected.
“And then the last two episodes, it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re too emotional. The end.’ It’s like, ugh, this was written by men,’” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “We need to get some feminist analysis up in HBO.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), another 2020 presidential candidate, also criticized the finale, remarking that she was “pissed off” and “particularly upset” by the writers’ treatment of Daenerys Targaryen, a female lead portrayed by actress Emilia Clarke.
“She’s somebody who made sure the lowest income, the least empowered could have a voice, and that was who she was,” Gillibrand said in a video published Monday by NowThis News. “Her goal was to break the wheel. Her goal was to reform government and make sure it represented the people first.”
Instead, the show’s scribes “destroyed who she was and why she wanted to ascend to power,” Gillibrand said. “I thought it was cheap, and I was very unhappy.”
