More from Game of Thrones season 5: news and episode reviews
The show shakes off its midseason malaise with one of its best battle sequences ever.
That whole long battle sequence at the end? Invented for the show.
If that’s the case, then it’s only right to be on Team Varys.
Book three’s storylines were ultimately spread across four seasons of television.
Look at historical figures who rose from obscurity to power, and they look a lot like Littlefinger.
The show’s master manipulator seems like he’s in over his head. Or is that what he wants everyone to think?
It’s hard to get invested in a storyline in which he will always prevail until he doesn’t.
Also: nobody should be excited for the High Sparrow’s rise to power.
Every so often, bad things happen to bad people on this show. Treasure those moments.
Which two characters met for the first time?
The series is collapsing plot lines from the books left and right. It’s mostly working.
That might be the main lesson of this latest Arya storyline.
That’s part of why the King’s Landing storyline is still the best thing on the show.
It feels like everyone involved is trying like hell to top the Red Wedding — and falling short.
In narrative terms, “everything is terrible” is just as boring and predictable as “everything is awesome.”
The Sand Snakes seem to have been conjured up as a pastiche of girl power tropes.
It’s important to understand what the series was going for; I’m not sure I do.
The disturbing final scene was indeed in the books, but it involved a different character.
Another Game of Thrones wedding, another unhappy ending.
The show’s trend toward clearer “good guys against bad guys” conflicts is potentially worrisome.
The home of the Starks could be the location for season five’s knock-down drag-out.
In defense of the show’s red priestess, who gets a bad rap.
Dany wants to heal the wounds of Meereen, and Jon Snow wants to end the distrust between the wildlings and the Night’s Watch.
Enter Stone Men.
“Kill the Boy” marked the halfway point of the season, and it set some big developments into motion.