Ahead of the 2015 Emmys, the script for “Mother’s Mercy,” the finale of Game of Thrones fifth season was posted online in its entirety. Within those pages, a devoted Reddit user found a rare moment of raw emotion from the stoic King Stannis Baratheon (played by Stephen Dillane) in his final exchange with Brienne of […]
Continue reading →This is it: we’ve reached the end of our long and winding Game of Thrones Memory Lane. What started with the long-ago first episode “Winter is Coming” comes to a resolute finish with the season 5 finale “Mother’s Mercy.” The journey has been filled with laughs, twists, love and death, and every step of it a […]
Continue reading →The winners of the 68th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were announced last night in Los Angeles, and Game of Thrones has a new addition to its trophy shelf! Director David Nutter won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for his work on the Game of Thrones season 5 finale, […]
Continue reading →Awards season is continuing nicely for Game of Thrones this year! Today via press release, the Writers Guild of America officially announced nominations for their 2016 television awards. The WGA Awards will celebrate “outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing during 2015.” The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, February […]
Continue reading →Award show predictions are always a crap shoot, aren’t they? More often than not it’s a matter of hoping for your personal favorite and then, afterwards, feigning apathy and insisting that the Academy is just “out of touch.” Still, with Game of Thrones nominated for 24 Emmys this year, it’s worth taking a look at which categories were […]
Continue reading →Note from the author: doing a second, bonus scene from the dramatically loaded “Mother’s Mercy” was always on the drawing board, to help make up for the fact that only eight episodes would have been tackled otherwise (nine being the standard), but its existence is made all the more meaningful given the large amount of […]
Continue reading →We’ve known since last October that Lena Headey would be using a body double for the nude scenes required by Cersei’s painful walk of atonement, after a WatchersOnTheWall source shared a Game of Thrones set report. Now in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, for the first time we learn about the filming of the walk from the […]
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Just when you thought you had read the last of the recaps…comes your final Thursday video recap round-up for season 5! Time for some reflections on the finale and season 5 as a whole. We start with our favorite critic/hairdresser: We will miss Jonathan Bianco’s salon in the hiatus but here is one more video […]
Continue reading →One of the major moments in this Sunday’s season finale of Game of Thrones was Cersei being subjected to a public walk of atonement. Lena Headey, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and David Nutter talk about the dramatic event in several interviews. The show writers also address the surprising death of Cersei’s daughter Myrcella. “I don’t think […]
Continue reading →After a truly epic finale to season 5, fans and critics alike are still buzzing with comments, questions, and discussion points. With so much given to us in the finale, it’s no surprise we’re still talking about it. So, without further ado: let’s get to it! And of course, let’s not forget Watchers’ own Sullied […]
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