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Game of Thrones – Season 5, Episode 9 The Dance of Dragons

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83% Tomatometer 53 Reviews
Stannis faces a difficult decision; Jon returns to the Wall; Mace visits the Iron Bank; Arya encounters someone from her past; Dany oversees a celebration of athleticism.
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Game of Thrones — Season 5, Episode 9

Game of Thrones — Season 5, Episode 9

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Underscored by an especially heartwrenching moment and a spectacular display of power, "The Dance of Dragons" successfully delivers the shock and awe audiences have come to expect from the series' penultimate episodes.

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David Malitz Washington Post 04/04/2019
We could use a little uplift these days. So it was nice to get some - quite literally - to end the season's next-to-last episode. Go to Full Review
Alyssa Rosenberg Washington Post 04/04/2019
David Nutter, who directed this episode, did a beautiful job with the sequence in Stannis's camp, which took us through several successive losses of faith. Go to Full Review
Myles McNutt AV Club 04/04/2019
B+
"The Dance Of Dragons" is therefore a suitable thematic framework for this penultimate hour of Game Of Thrones' fifth season. Go to Full Review
Justine Smith Vague Visages 11/21/2023
The strength of the episode’s emotional resonance lies very much in its embrace of contradiction, as “The Dance of Dragons” deals with leadership and loyalty. Go to Full Review
Randy Dankievitch TV Over Mind 03/05/2020
With Drogon under Dany's control and the White Walkers marching south, the battle between fire and ice is finally beginning, and with "The Dance of Dragons," Game of Thrones continues to discover exciting, emotionally resonant ways to convey this. Go to Full Review
Angela L. Harmon The NitPic 12/11/2019
I'm not sure that they can all be tied up in a way that makes sense and is also satisfying, but at least the ninth episode provided us with some literally jaw-dropping final moments. Go to Full Review
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Episode Info

Synopsis Stannis faces a difficult decision; Jon returns to the Wall; Mace visits the Iron Bank; Arya encounters someone from her past; Dany oversees a celebration of athleticism.
Director
David Nutter
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
Jun 7, 2015