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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 5 – ‘The Wolf and the Lion’ Review and Synopsis.
Please note: Spoilers ahead. The death of Ser Hugh is the focus of the opening of this episode. The match-up between the knights is determined by drawing straws. As discussed in the last post, Ser Hugh’s death is timely and suspicious, likely leading to some sort of Lannister concoction. King Robert wants to joust but […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 2 – ‘The Night Lands’ Review and Synopsis
Please note: Spoilers ahead. [ad name=”DMGG In-Content Responsive Ad”] Arya opens this episode with her usual feisty behavior, hitting a caged felon with her wooden sword when he rudely demands she get him a beer. The queen’s men come upon the party of the Night’s Watch and present a warrant demanding Gendry be remanded to […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 1 – ‘The North Remembers’ Review and Synopsis
The premier of season two of HBO’s hit epic fantasy Game of Thrones, based on “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin, inaugurates the Lannister via Baratheon reign over the Seven Kingdoms with blood and iron. King Jauffrey and his mother Cersei’s brutal rule over the populace coincides with an all-out rebellion […]
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Game of Thrones Season 2 Preview Video
HBO’s hit series, based upon the epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones’ debuts Season 2 video. [HBO] Making Game of Thrones: Arya’s New Look
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Lord Snow’ Review and Synopsis.
[Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens with the former denizens of Winterfell arriving in their new home, the appropriately named King’s Landing. The sets on this show are as impressive or more so than those HBO showed off in its series Rome. […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’
Spoilers ahead. [Season 1, Episode 1 – ‘Winter is Coming’ Review and Synopsis] This episode was written by D.B. Weiss and David Van Patten. We join Daenerys on the road with her new husband Khal Drogo and his tribe, the peripatetic Dothraki. Ser Jorah Mormont accompanies Daenerys as her bodyguard/ link to […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 1 – ‘Winter is Coming.’
Based on the popular George R. R. Martin fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, the HBO original series Game of Thrones captures the essence of the book in what could be the best adaptation of a modern epic fantasy novel to the small screen. A star studded cast including Sean Bean as Eddard Stark […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 5 – ‘The Ghost of Harrenhal’ Review and Synopsis
After giving birth to a shadow in the last episode, we return to Renly’s camp to see what has to become of Melisandre’s magic. In a parlay between Catelyn and Renly, Renly offers to recognize Robb as King of the North so long as Robb swears fealty to Renly as King on the Iron Throne. […]
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