SummaryAdapted from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series "A Song of Ice and Fire", this series is about a fantasy world where royal houses battle for the Iron Throne.
SummaryAdapted from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series "A Song of Ice and Fire", this series is about a fantasy world where royal houses battle for the Iron Throne.
The bodies still pile up in a sprawling episode full of ongoing storylines, but there's a definite sense that there's hope for some of these hopeless sorts. ... [Arya's] journey, as a young woman in a severely patriarchal society, has always been extremely compelling, but with every season, she gets more agency and strength, and becomes even more captivating.
It’s too early to say for sure, but the first episode of the first post-Martin season already feels more woman-friendly, indeed a tad warmer and more embracing overall, than the preceding 50 episodes, which could feel thrillingly atavistic and occasionally inspiring but also cold, manipulative, and needlessly vicious.
Few shows on television look better than this one, but it’s coming up on great-drama retirement age. Game of Thrones is getting older. But it’s not dead, yet.
In short, it was an episode of Game of Thrones, a show with little interest in or aptitude for self-editing. The aspects that worked were no better-written or more artfully shot than those that fell slightly flat; they simply had a sense of urgency that was, even by the standards of a show whose premieres are slow going, was absent elsewhere.
Surprise has its place, and isn't mandatory in a table-setting episode like this, which did its best to catch us up on most of the characters (while skipping over the likes of Littlefinger, Sam, and Hot Pie) and show us where their stories may be headed after all that went down at the end of last season.
Ultimately, even if not every element satisfied, the sixth-season premiere of Game of Thrones did what it needed to for me, putting this mammoth locomotive back on the track and showing again that even with less and less of Martin's published material to rely on, Weiss and Benioff know how to move it forward.
At times, “The Red Woman,” like other episodes before it, felt like a collection of vignettes rather than a fully fleshed out series centered on any semblance of core characters.
Great great great season. I mean look at the hodor episode, the two last episodes, the dream sequences , the soundtrack, everything was great in season six of GoT.
Easily containing Game of Thrones' worst narrative decisions, Season 6 is, at best, a slowburn that culminates in the best two episodes of the entire series; at worst, it's a plodding and uneven transitional season.
I really don't know what the big fuss is with The Games Of Thrones. It is a very average show with a couple of exciting moments in the whole series after 6 seasons. Still got nothing on Breaking Bad. That was a roller coaster of a show, unlike this show. Lots of boring episodes throughout 6 seasons. Thank god there is only ten episodes per season.