SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish getting that full-body tattoo and watch last night’s Game of Thrones. …
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Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make your way home past your jeering subjects, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“How can I call myself king if I can’t hold my own castle?” —Robb Stark
The first episode …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Three Wishes
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, broil a chunk of raw meat and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“They say he can’t be killed.” “And do you believe them?” “No, my Lord. Anyone can be killed.”
Arya Stark is a …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, see if your friends with HBO will let you inside their walled gate, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“The high road’s very pretty, but I doubt you can march your army on …
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Game of Thrones Watch: A Trick, A Shadow on a Wall
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Game of Thrones, but keep it to yourself. The Queen must never know!
Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones ended with a straight-up cliffhanger, in which Jon Snow …
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Game of Thrones Watch: There’s a New Hand in Town
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pay the iron price for HBO–or maybe just go visit a friend who has a subscription–and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“I’m not Ned Stark. I understand the way this game is …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Dark, and Full of Terrors
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, throw a couple of your gods on the fire, and gather your friends around to watch last night’s season premiere of Game of Thrones.
“A comet means one thing, boy: dragons.”
I have …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Rising from the Ashes
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a crackling fire going and sit down to watch the season finale of Game of Thrones.
I’ve always resisted the shorthand that Game of Thrones is “fantasy Sopranos.” To me, the series has more in common tonally with a range of other HBO dramas–a mix of Deadwood, Rome, The Wire, even …
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Game of Thrones Watch: The Unkindest Cut
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, sit down with your awkwardly uncomfortable fifteen-year-old bride and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
Well, damn.
I mean, if you read this blog regularly, you know I’ve read the books Game of Thrones is based on. I knew that the ending of last night’s episode was coming this season. …
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Game of Thrones Watch: The Quality of Mercy
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, invite your father’s bannermen over and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“The Pointy End” is the first episode of Game of Thrones (and the only one this season) written by George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire source novels. In that saga, Martin responds to several …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Boared to Death
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, ask your butcher for a nice venison roast for dinner and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
Like a battering ram in a siege, Game of Thrones took a while to roll into place. But now that it’s in motion, its momentum gets more undeniable week by week. And “You Win or You Die” was the …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fix yourself a nice juicy horse snack and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“A Golden Crown” was the final episode of Game of Thrones I saw in advance before I reviewed the series. In that review, I quoted a couple of scenes that, for me, captured the essence of Thrones’ attitude toward …
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Game of Thrones Watch: A Little More Conversation, A Little More Action
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, retire to your deck—overlooking a terrifying thousand-foot drop—and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
The first few episodes of Game of Thrones, because they had such a vast world to establish, involved a lot of talking: characters talking about history, about dragons, about who …