Game of Thrones
HBO’s Game of Thrones: episode recaps, reviews, analysis, and roundtable discussions.


Sansa’s strongest wardrobe statement yet, explained.


Why are the movies and TV shows we most worry will be spoiled for us always the most predictable ones?


Winners: Brienne! Chiaroscuro lighting! The audience! Losers: Whatever that Sansa and Dany scene was.


The episode’s musical Easter egg, “Jenny’s Song,” could be foreshadowing the end of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.


In “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Bran Stark’s line, “the things we do for love,” was a savage Jaime Lannister callback.


Daenerys isn’t going to be happy with either Jaime Lannister or Samwell Tarly.


Daenerys doesn’t trust that when push comes to shove, Tyrion will choose his queen over his family.


We explore the ways the show’s season 8 premiere parallels its first episode.


It’s largely gotten rid of second acts in its many storylines, and that’s made it sloppier than ever.


In fact, another weapon in George R.R. Martin’s universe better fits that description.


Bran Stark is dominating the Game of Memes.


Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere helped reveal who’s likely to sit on the Iron Throne at the end of the season.


From Arya’s smile to Bran’s cold stare, here are the highlights from an episode full of characters reuniting.


After watching “Winterfell,” our critics discuss how the series should conclude, and how it definitely shouldn’t.


The series’ introductory sequence has rarely received as big an update as it did in the season eight premiere, “Winterfell.”


A key scene in the season premiere may be a callback to a prophecy featuring Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.


Winners: Jon Snow! Cersei Lannister! Circular narratives! Losers: Daenerys Targaryen! Narrative urgency!


Most of the characters are safe headed into the premiere, except for Yara and Tormund.


Here’s the rundown on your fave pairings and when they last met, from Jon and Arya to the Cleganebowl.


But it will bring an end to the glorious age of the TV recap.


Here’s a refresher on where season seven left the Lannisters, Starks, Targaryens, and their armies.

Hollywood is churning out dozens of new languages. We spoke to the master.


As the hit show comes to a close, fans are ready to collect everything from $100 t-shirts to White Walker whiskey.


Two of our resident experts on the show explain to a novice why HBO’s fantasy blockbuster matters.


Fans of the HBO series are flocking to Croatia, Iceland, and other countries where the show has filmed.


We divided our must-watch episode guide into two lists: one for the plot and one for the shocks.


The beginning of the end of Game of Thrones has arrived.


HBO has finally set a return date for the last six episodes of its smash-hit fantasy epic.


An alliance between Sansa and Daenerys is here.


The end of Game of Thrones begins in five months.


The show is slated to return in the first half of 2019.


But there’s still no official premiere date.


The leaker, indicted in November, was among the Iranian hackers sanctioned by the US on Friday.


David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.

”That we cannot avoid believing in progress may also prove to be our undoing.”


San Juan de Gaztelugatxe is a Basque church in Spain— and the site of Daenerys Targaryen’s Season Seven base.


There’s a little prophecy…


The story lends itself to three different types of endings — and all of them will leave fans upset.


The author was a conscientious objector to Vietnam. That’s reflected in his books — and now in the show.


Fans look back at the mystery that shaped 20 years of fandom, from the early internet through today.