<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Has Finally Unleashed The Apocalypse<em></em>
At one point in A Storm of Swords, the third installment in the book series adapted into Game of Thrones, Bran Stark and his companions are wanderin’ through the woods when the messiah prince (who is also, after all, just a bored lonely little kid) requests a story. Meera Reed launches into a tale a...
<i>Game Of Thrones </i>Finally Pits Ice Against Fire
Game of Thrones began with our supposed hero laughing off a warning that an icy apocalypse was nigh. One of Ned Stark’s first scenes showed him beheading a deeply freaked out Night’s Watch deserter, who used his last breath to warn Ned that winter was coming....
All The Best Cowboys Are Heading North Of The Wall
All Westerns are set at the end of the world. In most of the genre’s staples, the specific reasons why this particular gunslinger is in this particular town fighting this particular scoundrel quickly fade away. Stories of discovery and exploration take place in unforgiving environments, places where...
<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Is Only Just Starting To Burn It All Down
There is a tension at the heart of both Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, a contradiction which threatens to swallow the world and our heroes whole if they don’t manage it properly: How do you save the world without breaking it in the process? If you burn everything down to win, what’s the...
<i>Game Of Thrones </i>Is Letting Cersei Cook
Lena Headey is all wildfire. There’s an unmistakable spring in Cersei Lannister’s step this season, as if the Sept of Baelor blows up behind her eyelids every time she blinks. Her arc really ended there, in that glorious green catharsis, and now she’s basking in the aftermath. All hail the Queen of ...
<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Is Finally Starting To Converge
One of the major selling points of this season of Game of Thrones, one brought to the fore more in the kinetic “Stormborn” than the place-setting “Dragonstone,” is that the show’s far-flung narratives are finally coming back together, revolving around the three power bases of Team Dany, Team Cersei,...
<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Works Best When It Stays Small<em></em>
To be honest, 60 minutes spent zooming through the army of the dead would’ve been enough for me....
<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Is Increasingly Incoherent And Somehow Still Magical<em></em>
This is the time of year when I stretch myself across a bubbling lava pit in agony, unwilling to give up my foothold on either side, for I both love and hate Game of Thrones....