Game of Thrones
HBO’s Game of Thrones: episode recaps, reviews, analysis, and roundtable discussions.
Yes, everyone already made that joke.
“I choose violence.”
The Winds of Winter is not coming.
“The past is already written. The ink is dry.”
It seems like HBO has stopped trying to hide its worst-kept secret.
It beat The West Wing.
His latest press tour included quite a slip.
Yeah, okay, sure he is.
There’s no value in keeping his fate ambiguous unless there’s a further twist down the road.
It won’t be back until 2016, so you’ll need binge-watching recommendations. Fortunately, we have them.
Book readers are, for the first time, just as in the dark as everyone else.
Behold, the Vox staff’s picks for the season’s highest highs and lowest lows.
It was much better in the book. Here’s why.
Season five’s overstuffed finale left the show in prime position for a series reset.
“Mother’s Mercy” was so full of death and despair that the series has nowhere left to go but up.
The fates of so many characters are entirely in doubt when the episode ends.
There was lots of death in the season finale.
The Vox staff weighs in on what the end of season five may have in store.
The confident killer of the books has become a bumbling noob on the TV show.
Our latest theory: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss actually set up a false choice for Stannis, in preparation for pulling the rug out from under him in the season finale.
In some ways, the show is beginning to feel like internet clickbait that can’t possibly deliver on its lofty promises.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The series has started shocking for shock’s sake, at the expense of its story.
Fire burns through the two most memorable scenes in this week’s Game of Thrones.
The most brutal and shocking twist this week doesn’t happen in the books published so far.
Also on my wish list: more screen time for the wildlings, and a swift resolution to whatever is happening with Ramsay, Roose, Sansa, Theon, and Brienne.
Everything you need to know about the greatest threat the world faces today.
The show plays fast and loose with army sizes and population counts, and it’s confusing.
Also: Why the politics of King’s Landing still matter, even with the White Walkers on the move.
At this point, how relevant are Sansa and what’s happening at Winterfell?
Like winter, the payoffs are coming.
The novels are great, but the TV show is a better overall telling of this story, at least at this point in time.
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?