Tony Black on Game of Thrones: Riverrun, the Blackfish, and why we’re going back… Riverrun. Good old Riverrun. When was the last time we saw Riverrun? It’s been a while since the seventy minute opening credits of Game of Thrones took us there, but that looks like where we’re going for the show’s next episode, […]
Complacency: The Killer of TV’s Golden Age
Samuel Brace on the death of TV’s Golden Age… It’s all over. Television’s golden age is, it seems, gone. It’s done. Some will argue that it was never here at all, but those people are mostly ardent film fans who could never face that for a while, for a very short time, TV was better than […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 6 Review – Blood of My Blood
Blood of My Blood Directed by Jack Bender Written by Bryan Cogman Bran Now Hodor-less, Bran is now being dragged by an exhausted Meera, though he is unaware of this fact as he’s darting through key moments of time, visions smashing into each other from his father’s beheading to the Mad King demanding that they, […]
Game of Thrones: Who is Bran’s Cold Handed Saviour?
Tony Black on Bran’s Cold Handed saviour… MAJOR spoilers for Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 6 – ‘Blood of My Blood’. So hands up who thought Bran Stark was dead meat after the traumatic end of ‘The Door’? With poor old Hodor fulfilling his manifest destiny, his all-seeing Raven mentor cut to ribbons, […]
Game of Thrones: The Night King is not who we thought…
Tony Black on the identity of the Night King… Well now. Who saw this coming? This weeks Game of Thrones, in the middle of a season now definitively outpacing George R.R. Martin’s books, raced thick and fast toward not only some serious character development but equally some enormous revelations about the dense, fascinating mythology underpinning […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 5 Review – The Door
The Door Directed by Jack Bender Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Bran If there’s one thing I love in any fiction, it’s time travel. If there’s one thing I love even more, it’s when time travel is used to deliver a payoff you’ve spent years waiting for, and boy does Game of Thrones […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 4 Review – ‘Book of the Stranger’
Book of the Stranger Directed by Daniel Sackheim Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Jon & Sansa How awesome is it to have a section title with those two names together? A genuinely emotional moment for everyone as Sansa (Sophie Turner) rode into Castle Black and gave a loitering, listless Jon (Kit Harington) what […]
George R.R. Martin releases an excerpt from The Winds of Winter
A Song of Ice & Fire author George R.R. Martin has given fans a taste of what’s in store in his long-awaited novel The Winds of Winter by releasing a chapter via his website (which you can read it here). The chapter is being touted as a dig at the television show – which has deviated somewhat […]
Game of Thrones: 5 Big Moments From “Oathbreaker”
We’re three episodes into Game of Thrones‘ sixth season, and the latest one, titled “Oathbreaker,” gave us a lot to chew on heading forward. It may not have lived up to the excitement of the second episode of the season in which Jon Snow was famously (finally) brought back to life, but in setting the stage […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 3 Review – ‘Oathbreaker’
Tony Black reviews the third episode of Game of Thrones season 6… Oathbreaker Directed by Daniel Sackheim Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Jon He may have died and been resurrected by Melisandre’s (Carice van Houten) weird magic, but Jon Snow (Kit Harington) still knows nothing. Worryingly he seems to suggest the Gods everyone […]
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