Season finale review: Game of Thrones ‘Mhysa’ – Let Them Remember
As we learn at the episode’s close, ‘Mhysa’ is a word for ‘mother’ in whatever language they speak at Astapor (Valyrian, I suppose?), so it makes sense that ‘Mhysa’ spends….
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Review: Game of Thrones ‘The Rains of Castamere’ – Show Them How It Feels
In the beginning of ‘The Rains of Castamere’, Walder Frey mentions how the “wine will flow red” at the wedding of Edmure to one of his many, many daughters and….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘Second Sons’ – And So My Watch Begins
Coming into the third season of Game of Thrones – and knowing the sheer girth of A Storm of Swords, a book that currently sits unread on my bookshelf – I wondered how….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘The Bear and the Maiden Fair’ – When It Suits Them
After two episodes of big emotional payoffs and plot movement, things slow back down to a crawl in ‘The Bear and the Maiden Fair’, an exquisitely shot episode (shout out to….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘The Climb’ – This Is Awkward
In one of the more thematically obvious titles in recent memory, ‘The Climb’ saw a lot of characters … well, climbing, be it literally (Jon Snow) or figuratively (just about….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘Kissed By Fire’ – Burn Them All
If you couldn’t tell things were staring to heat up in ‘Kissed By Fire’, episode director Alex Graves has got you covered: every scene incorporates flames into its visuals in….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘And Now His Watch Has Ended’ – A Spider In The Garden
In last week’s review, I talked about the lack of movement while a whirlwind of plot lines were being set up.
Review: Game of Thrones ‘Walk of Punishment’ – Always The Artists
Now that everything (for the most part) has been set up for the events of this season, ‘Walk of Punishment’ can finally start to take a few steps forward –….
Review: Game of Thrones ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words’ – We Have Much Farther To Go
Like the season premiere, ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words’ is a lot more allusion than action (though we get our first sword fight of the season near the conclusion of the….