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Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke says she stands by Daenerys and her actions

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Emilia Clarke, who starred as Daenerys in Game of Thrones, says that she stands by the character. The colossal achievement that was Game of Thrones has now ended and its last season certainly offered up plenty of shocks and surprises. Many were devastated to see Dany give into all of her worst impulses in the […]

Game of Thrones Season 8 Finale Review – ‘The Iron Throne’

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the Game of Thrones finale… The final episode of the entire series is finally here, and it’s hard not to reflect on the epic journey that the characters have been on to get where they are by the end. While the obvious question going into the finale is which of them will […]

Elizabeth Olsen on her “terrible” audition to play Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones

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While Game of Thrones has propelled Emilia Clarke into the A-list with her role as Daenerys Targaryen, it’s widely known that she wasn’t the first choice to play the Mad Queen, with Tamzin Merchant (Pride and Prejudice, The Tudors) actually portraying the character in the 2009 pilot. Merchant was ultimately dropped from the show once […]

Game of Thrones Season 8: How Is It Going to End?

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Eammon Jacobs recaps Game of Thrones Season Eight’s fifth episode and looks ahead to the finale… *Spoiler Warning* We’re in the endgame now. After the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones season 8 delivered a devastating blow to Cersei’s hold on Westeros, it’s become very clear that this has all been an origin story for […]

George R.R. Martin on Game of Thrones’ ending differing from the books

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When David Benioff and D.B. Weiss first started working on Game of Thrones back in 2007, the expectation was that with two books to go in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the author would have wrapped up his fantasy epic well before the series reached its conclusion. Well, some twelve […]

Game of Thrones sets ratings high and Rotten Tomatoes low with ‘The Bells’

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As we’ve already seen on several occasions this eighth and final season, HBO’s Game of Thrones continues to set ratings highs for the network, although Sunday’s episode ‘The Bells’ also managed a series low in terms of audience score. The controversial episode, which saw Emilia Clarke’s Dany unleashing a fiery hell upon King’s Landing, was […]