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Game of Thrones: ‘The Iron Throne’ Brings Everything to a Close, with Mixed Results

Our watch has ended. The 95 minute finale brought everything to a close. While the places our characters find themselves by the end are interesting (and fitting to varying degrees), the way the show got there was anything but a…

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Game of Thrones: ‘The Bells’ is a Technical Masterpiece Filled with Tension, Action and Genocide

There several points in last night's episode, 'The Bells', where Jon Snow is shocked and appalled at the absolute brutality unfolding around him in King's Landing. These shots are juxtaposed with sweeping aerial shots of Dany burning King's Landing in…

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Game of Thrones: ‘A Long Night’ Delivers a Tense (and Anticlimactic) Battle at Winterfell

'The Long Night' was dark and full of terrors. Jon and Dany's forces took on the might of the Night King in a terse, terrifying battle. They survived, barely, by the skin of their teeth, thanks to a timely assist…

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Game of Thrones: ‘A Knight of Seven Kingdoms’ Presents the Calm Before the Storm

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" was, for the most part, a narrative exercise in cooking ups scenes that play out the 'calm before the storm' scenario in as many dressings as possible. If this were a McDonald's meal, then…