Game of Thrones has cast Australian actress Essie Davis, who played Amelia in the horror film The Babadook, for season 6, according to EW.com. Davis will be playing Cersei Lannister in a theater troupe’s dramatization of the events in King’s Landing. The troupe stages a play called “The Bloody Hand,” a show about the events […]
Another Tarly will be coming to Game of Thrones next spring. According to EW, UnREAL star Freddie Stroma has been cast as Samwell Tarly’s brother – Dickon Tarly – in Game of Thrones season 6. From the George R.R. Martin novels and TV series, we know that Dickon is the more physically capable younger brother […]
Several months back, the creators of HBO’s mega-hit Game of Thrones, DB Weiss and David Benioff, announced the series would most likely end after its seventh season. While the news undoubtedly disappointed fans, it was clear from HBO president Michael Lombardo’s comments after that announcement that the network would do everything in its power to […]
Revenge is a complicated thing, as we saw in “Mother’s Mercy,” the season five finale of Game of Thrones. It can result in the death of particularly horrific individuals, but it can also mean the death of those who don’t quite deserve it. It can strike down those willing to rape and murder, and it can […]
How does a show follow the greatest episode of its five year run? If that show is Game of Thrones, it burns a young girl alive at the stake. Because, lest you forget, on Game of Thrones, it always ends in tears. There was no real way the series could possibly hope to carry over […]
Wow. Just wow. What an absolutely spectacular and magnificent final twenty minutes. Even several hours after the fact, I am still feeling a sense of awe at what Game of Thrones accomplished with its entire Jon Snow storyline this week. Traditionally, Game of Thrones has used the late episodes of each season as a showcase […]
Well, it looks like a perverse form of justice has finally caught up with Cersei. And, considering the kind of world Game of Thrones exists within, it’s amazing that justice of any kind has reached a character, particularly one so well versed in scheming as Cersei. But here we are, with Cersei in a Black […]
Someone has to kill Ramsay Bolton, right? They have to. Because that scene was just about the most horrific thing Game of Thrones has ever given us. And that is saying a lot, considering some of the truly twisted things the series has done in the past. We have all known that Ramsay is plain […]
We are officially halfway through the fifth season of Game of Thrones and things are moving along relatively smoothly. After two weeks of fast moving episodes that crammed in some excellent character development alongside important plot points, “Kill the Boy” slowed things down a bit. Not a whole lot happened within the episode, but the […]
Well, Game of Thrones is really on a roll now. “The Sons of the Harpy” wasn’t quite as strong as last week’s “High Sparrow,” but it was another strong episode, full of interesting plot movement and character development. While some fan favorites were missing this week (namely, Arya and Brienne), we did get another look […]
