A Murder of Crows: Season six thoughts, season seven predictions
Another season – arguably the best one of them all! – is in the books, and what better and more time-honored way to salute its passing than by looking back to i...
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It Is Known: “The Winds of Winter”
Jon Snow (who dies and comes back to life), Beric Dondarrion (the previous recipient of R’hllor’s apparent fondness for resurrections), Benjen Stark (who cannot...
Game of Thrones season six ratings overview
Another Tuesday is here, but the season is over, alas. This means there are no fresh overnight ratings of a new episode – still, we can take a look at the...
It Is Known: “No One”
There was a moment in this week’s episode that crystalized much of Game of Thrones’s plot, thematic variations, and, of course, its underlying quasi-medieval re...
It Is Known: “The Broken Man”
“Fuck justice, then – we’ll get revenge.” It’s a funny line, delivered by Yara Greyjoy to her devastated brother, Theon (one of just several titular broken men ...
It Is Known: “Blood of My Blood”
There seem to be two dominant thematic motifs at work in “Blood of My Blood,” simultaneously building off of and tugging at one another. On the one hand, there ...
Game of Thrones S6 ratings so far: an overview
We are now at the middle of the current season (already!), and it is time to look at the ratings so far, which in turn means you are going to see another shiny ...
A Murder of Crows: The Night’s King’s mark
It may be time for another Murder of Crows – but it’s also time for something of a twist. We decided to shake things up a bit with our roundtable discussions an...
It Is Known: “The Door”
It’s easy to sort through “The Door’s” various moments of note – the revelation of Wylis’s transformation into Hodor, the choosing of Euron Greyjoy as the next ...
How an ASOIAF Fan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love S6E4’s Final Scene
Daenerys Targaryen is not fireproof. How could the showrunners reuse a plot device from Season 1? Fan-Fiction! These are the common complaints that A Song of Ic...