There’s no shortage of empty gestures throughout the latest episode of the series.
The episode gives the audience exactly what it expects, and absolutely nothing else.
The episode is, above all else, a resolute detailing of the final calm before a spectacular storm and what it means to be human.
The episode has the good sense to respect our familiarity with these characters, and as such it doesn’t beat around the bush.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
The episode that dials back from the epic confrontations that have filled out the majority of this season.
Three episodes into this truncated seventh season and Game of Thrones is spiraling toward a preordained place.
Death is momentarily thrilling, but the struggles of those who live on are what sustain the series.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones takes a more subdued step back to reset the table for the next big event.
Many of the events in Game of Thrones are developing so quickly that plot, by necessity, substitutes for development.
The flippancy toward thematic concerns and character construction suggests that the film was largely built from used parts.
Game of Thrones tends to peak with its penultimate episode, leaving finales open to operate as a form of self-summary.
Only Michelle MacLaren’s brilliantly composed coda with the White Walkers sticks in the memory.
Game of Thrones finally feels liberated from its own extensive mythology and now moves with thrilling fury and purpose.
Game of Thrones’s best season yet comes with a typically great transfer and enough extras to please devotees for days.
The series feels like it has some firm footing and a newfound sense of certain direction that was lacking intermittently in the second season.
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.
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.
With tonight’s episode, the writers of Game of Thrones continue the trend of organizing each episode of season two around a different theme.
The most exciting thing about the season-two premiere of Game of Thrones is its refreshing sense of focus.