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Aaron Riccio

Aaron Riccio's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “This quieter, slower, but just as bloody season allows the show’s characters to develop so that their inevitable deaths carry more weight. ” – Slant Magazine Jun 6, 2024 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 6 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 5 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 4 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 3 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 2 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) 1.5/4 EDIT “The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6 (2019) EDIT “The way the story of the Seven Kingdoms is reduced in the homestretch to the rising of four Starks feels pat, unintentionally emphasizing how everything about Game of Thrones has grown so increasingly limited in scope.” – Slant Magazine May 20, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 5 (2019) EDIT “As [David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss show with this masterful rebuttal of an episode, a upending of so many expectations, it's never too late to choose a different narrative.” – Slant Magazine May 13, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 4 (2019) EDIT “Game of Thrones is weakened the closer it draws to the end, for it no longer allows characters to surprise us, and without that most human of traits, we're left with a Game of Drones.” – Slant Magazine May 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 3 (2019) EDIT “"The Long Night" isn't only long, it tasks itself with accomplishing too much. In between the wonderful, minimally scored beginning to the battle and the powerfully elegiac ending, the episode sets about busily satisfying a checklist.” – Slant Magazine Apr 29, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 2 (2019) EDIT “It's to the show's credit that despite the excitement promised by an all-out battle against the undead, we'd all be more than happy to stay for just a moment longer with all of these characters.” – Slant Magazine Apr 22, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 1 (2019) EDIT “Scenes are just three to four minutes in length, but they're filled with such richness of both dialogue and delivery that hardly anything feels shortchanged.” – Slant Magazine Apr 15, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 10 (2015) EDIT “All men must die, and yet in the North, the White Walkers refuse to do so and across the ocean in Valyria, those with greyscale persist.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 8 (2015) EDIT “If there's one thing the frenetic White Walker-packed climax of "Hardhome" proves, it's that at the end of the day, talk is cheap.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 7 (2015) EDIT “Sometimes the greatest gift is the absolute clarity and certainty that comes from desperation.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 6 (2015) EDIT “We may not be able to control the narrative of what happens to us, but we can at least manage how we react to these things, forcing a genuine smile on a false face while secretly plotting revenge and murder behind it.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 3 (2015) EDIT “It's a perfect example of the erosive effects of tragedy, in that a person can only survive by becoming something else, and not for nothing does Arya spend the majority of this episode silently doing menial tasks, scrubbing away the past.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 4 (2015) EDIT “If these two are dead, it will be ultimately be meaningless, not heroic, which makes the glorious music that plays as they fight on all the more upsetting.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 5 (2015) EDIT “As the two see one of Daenerys's dragons fly by, it's a reminder that life finds a way to continue, if only they're willing to man up and fight for it.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 2 (2015) EDIT “It's fitting that the titular House of Black and White is home to No One, for if there's anything true of Westeros, it's that nothing is ever black and white.” – Slant Magazine Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 1 (2015) EDIT “The fifth season of Game of Thrones begins like a fairy tale.” – Slant Magazine Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Burn Notice: Season 4 (2010) 82% 2/4 EDIT “There's nothing wrong with a show that just wants to comfortably bask in the Miami sun -- so long as it rolls over and shows some fresh skin every once in a while.” – Slant Magazine Dec 7, 2018 Full Review Hung: Season 3 (2011) 80% 1.5/4 EDIT “Watching Hung is what I imagine zero-G sex would be like: amusing at first, then clumsy, and at last unfulfilling.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2018 Full Review Legion: Season 1 (2017) 90% EDIT “Legion's visual density on a shot-by-shot basis and the scope of its world-building is already impressive enough, especially in just over three minutes, but it's a sign of the show's creative aspirations that Hawley isn't content to stop there.” – Slant Magazine Jul 14, 2018 Full Review
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