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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 1 Valar Dohaeris

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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 1

Valar Dohaeris

Aired Mar 31, 2013

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Jon is brought before the King Beyond the Wall; Tyrion asks for his reward; Littlefinger offers Sansa a way out; Cersei hosts a dinner for the royal family; Daenerys sails into Slaver's Bay.

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"Valar Dohaeris" overextends itself trying to reintroduce a multitude of characters and plotlines, but is strengthened by its brilliantly acted two-person scenes (and three growing baby dragons).

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Ser Jaime Lannister

Lena Headey

Queen Cersei Lannister

Emilia Clarke

Daenerys Targaryen

Kit Harington

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Alison Herman

Flavorwire

03/18/2019

"Valar Dohaeris" did its job nicely: checking in on the series' main players and giving a few hints of what Season 3 has in store for them

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Allison Keene

Collider

03/18/2019

A

Things are about to kick up a notch.

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Ed Cumming

Daily Telegraph (UK)

03/18/2019

That said, as with any series this complex, the first episode had to do a lot of narrative heavy lifting, and we will have to wait for the real climaxes. But there was much to whet the appetite.

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Randy Dankievitch

Processed Media

02/12/2020

B

[A] solid opening considering the tall task it was handed of reintroducing and establishing the various characters in Westeros.

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TK Burton

Pajiba

04/12/2019

It was a deceptively quiet episode, more a gathering of forces and wills than an action-packed opener.

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Jeff Spross

Brightest Young Things

03/18/2019

"Valar Dohaeris" felt more like prep work than actual storytelling... Still, the episode was shot through with the darkly rich moral ecology we've come to expect from the books and HBO's adaptation.

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Synopsis

Jon is brought before the King Beyond the Wall; Tyrion asks for his reward; Littlefinger offers Sansa a way out; Cersei hosts a dinner for the royal family; Daenerys sails into Slaver's Bay.

Director: Daniel Minahan
Executive Producer: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza, George R.R. Martin
Screenwriter: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date: Mar 31, 2013