Game of Thrones finally reached the end of its epic tale, concluding close to a decade of one of TV’s most watched (and most debated) drama series of all-time. Premium cable channel HBO really set a new standard for television, producing a sprawling fictional world filled with rich characters, noble histories, wondrous magic, and fierce […]
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Here’s the thing, everyone: endings are really hard. Very few stories get them right. For every Breaking Bad, which has about as perfect an ending as television has ever seen, there are plenty more series that end on a sour note, like Lost, Dexter, or The Sopranos. Unfortunately for Game of Thrones, the rush to wrap everything up so that showrunners David Benoiff […]
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For better or worse, Game of Thrones zoomed along in another episode on Sunday night. “The Last of the Starks” was the third-last episode of the entire series, and with the Night King thoroughly (and conveniently) dispatched in the previous episode, the show got back to its normal routine of political maneuvering and shifting alliances. Except […]
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It finally happened. After seven and a half seasons (and close to decade of real life time), the humans of Westeros finally faced off against the White Walkers and their army of the dead. It’s a showdown that had been teased since literally the very first episode of the series in 2011. And make no […]
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