A few more episodes of LoGH. Still not that interesting, but episode 59 told the story of the 2nd to 5th emperors.
The second emperor was basically “The Man in the High Castle”: repression of democratic groups, but he was a fair ruler… for those loyal to him. The third emperor was more interested in concubines. And the fifth kept the tradition up to his 96 years.
But not the fourth, this one would make Fish Eye proud. He even abdicated after one year, to run away with a boy. They explicitly said that the first emperor wouldn’t like having a homosexual descendant, since he did what he could to exterminate them.
That is the Empire for you.
To be fair, there is no evidence that these things continued 500 years later, when the series begins (except for concubines), but they did mention concentration camps once, so I wouldn’t bet against it.