#like the aztecs isn't even that good but in context? with how much of a slog everything else in s1 is? it's fucking riveting.

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if you ignore the dubious historicity and typical british patronizing of other cultures, “the aztecs” is worth watching for the hilarity of the bbc deciding, six serials in, to make it clear that the old man Does Fuck, and not just in the vague “well he has a granddaughter” sense