Well, I didn’t quite get it all right with my prediction last week, but I got pretty darn close. Jon didn’t get the Throne – instead he got a trip back to The Wall (the only place he ever truly fit in, if we’re being honest), and a really lovely reunion with Ghost (I still […]
Let’s get this out of the way right now: That was not a good episode of television. It certainly wasn’t a good penultimate episode of a series. And it definitely wasn’t a good penultimate episode of television for a series that has spent so many years toiling in the minutia of character development and palace […]
Well, I guess Missandei and Grey Worm won’t be getting that beach front property after all (too soon?). There’s a general problem that arises as a series that is as plot heavy as Game of Thrones approaches its end game: characters and story arcs become rigidly stuck along a particular path to get to the […]
That was, dare I say, pretty disappointing? For all the hype, for all the talk of the longest sustained battle on screen, for all the warning of painful character deaths, we got that? An hour and a half of quick, confusing cuts (that made it incredibly hard to understand just what was happening- and who […]
Well, that was quite a bit of fan service (even after last week’s fan service-filled premiere) to get us to the start of The Battle of Winterfell. And, honestly, I really didn’t mind. During my seven season rewatch leading up to season eight, my major takeaway was how wonderful the quiet moments of the show […]
A lot of exposition was taken care of in “Winterfell,” the premiere of the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. We discovered where our remaining characters are (largely either Winterfell or King’s Landing, although I’ll be sure to take stock of those in other locales later on in the review), we saw […]
And with an ice dragon breathing ice-fire (at least that’s what it appeared to be?), The Wall comes crashing down, and the penultimate season of Game of Thrones ends. A solid ending, to be sure, even if I think the vast majority of the viewing audience had a suspicion that this was exactly how the […]
Some major plot moments happened in “Beyond the Wall,” but not the ones we all expected. The predicted bloodbath at the hands of the White Walkers resulted in one notable, surprising death (and one that I suspect many saw coming – RIP Thoros of Myr), but it wasn’t nearly as spectacular as some of the […]
There was no way “Eastwatch” was going to live up to the brilliance that was “The Spoils of War,” so I was glad to see that the writers didn’t even bother to try. Instead, we were given a great deal of discussion to bookend last week’s action packed ending, continuing to move the show’s key […]
About halfway through “Spoils of War,” I found myself thinking, “Man, I’m really loving this episode. This is might be my favorite episode this season.” Great character moments, an wondrous Stark reunion, and that awesome sparring match between Brienne and Arya would have made this a great Game of Thrones episode. And then that last […]
