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Game of Thrones: Winter has brought the Age of Queens

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Tony Black on Game of Thrones’ ‘Age of Queens’ (spoilers for ‘The Winds of Winter’ follow)… It began with Kings. Game of Thrones now looks set to end with Queens. The feminist revolution in Westeros truly blossomed this season and epic finale ‘The Winds of Winter’ cemented the concrete inside the stone, or perhaps more […]

Game of Thrones: The Battle is over, but Winter is Coming

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Tony Black on what could be in store for Game of Thrones in ‘The Winds of Winter’… It’s taken me a while, but I’ve managed to recover from the televisual onslaught that was Game of Thrones season six episode nine, ‘Battle of the Bastards’. Spoilers will inevitably follow for this monster, this narrative titan of […]

Game of Thrones: Riverrun, the Blackfish, and why we’re going back

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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, […]

Game of Thrones: The Night King is not who we thought…

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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 4 Review – ‘Book of the Stranger’

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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 […]

Game of Thrones: The Mystery of the Crow’s Eye

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Tony Black on the mystery of Euron Greyjoy… Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 2 ‘Home’… All eyes were on Jon Snow during ‘Home’, the second episode of Game of Thrones this week, but as I discussed in my earlier review it was an episode packed with incident. One element that may have […]

Game of Thrones showrunners confirm end point, season 7 directors revealed

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Following the epic season six finale of Game of Thrones [read our review here], it looks like the end point is firmly in sight for HBO’s acclaimed fantasy series, with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirming to Deadline that the plan is to wrap things up with two final shortened seasons… and possibly just […]

Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will guest star on The Simpsons

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Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is set to make his way over to The Simpsons for a guest appearance. Many a famous face has visited the town of Springfield over the years, from actors like Mark Hamill to comedian Ricky Gervais. Now one of the stars of TV’s biggest series is to get his […]

Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke admits that filming Season 6 “almost killed” the cast

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It’s only a few months away until the premiere and rumours and spoilers have been readily dropping about Season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Most of the talk has been about the apparent death of a huge character. Hopefully we will find out for sure about the status of Jon Snow on April 24th […]