Is there like a secret global MPAA that requires every new ~TV series to have no less than one scene of people doing shots every per every three episodes? It’s presented as some strange sign of transhistorical, literally universal sign of ‘authenticity.’ Axis Powers won WW2? DO SHOTS! Winter is coming? DO SHOTS! Belter infighting in the face of an incomprehensible alien presence got you down? DO SHOTS! Viking proto-empire falling apart? DO SHOTS! Nazis taking over your decadent ’30s Berlin? DO SHOTS! England’s oppressing your 18TH-C pirate paradise? DO SHOTS! Your lawyer is a money-laundering lunatic? DO SHOTS! Seriously, WTF is up with this?