The problem these men face is that there are plenty of boys who find themselves in positions of power, and that’s not even mentioning King Tommen in King’s Landing.
Considering how many people are neither feared nor loved in “Sons of the Harpy,” respect is all that matters.
Despite being home to the Faceless, the House of Black and White is filled with a variety of visages: statues to the various gods of Westeros.
There’s plenty of death in the fifth season of Game of Thrones, and those deaths are understood as cautionary symbols of power.
The episode isn’t so much a lead-up to the showdown promised by its title as a delay of game.
The episode’s saving grace lies in the contrast that the series continues to develop between the two young women of the Stark family.
Game of Thrones’s best season yet comes with a typically great transfer and enough extras to please devotees for days.
Whether you pay the gold price or the iron price, HBO’s top-notch box set of the show’s second season is well-worth the investment.
After last week’s thematically spastic episode, it’s refreshing to see that a simple and direct, albeit unambitious, theme unites the various plot strands here.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss try too hard to introduce an elemental aspect to Game of Thrones’s focus on the nature of power.
Whatever The Iron Lady is to you, this Blu-ray will give you just-adequate satisfaction.
The new season introduces an assortment of fresh environments, expertly visualized by the show’s tremendous production values and adept crew.
This Blu-ray release of Game of Thrones is the best way to field test your high-definition, DTS home entertainment system.
Meryl Streep delivers multiple scenes of fierce, brilliantly overacted mimicry capable of reducing the whole theater to a wowed hush.
Following from that stunning close-up that opens the show, Game of Thrones does its best work in the close-up mode.
The episode maintains the high quality displayed by the first half of this two-parter, “The Time of Angels.”
The marvelous pre-titles sequence is a classic five minutes of Doctor Who.
This time, as opposed to all the other times, it’s personal.
Resident Evil: Extinction brings to mind an alt-metal remake of Romero’s Day of the Dead.
Fuck the Ides of March.