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Alyssa Rosenberg

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Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6 (2019) EDIT “Instead, Daenerys, once the show's ostensible hero, ended up feeling like a plot point to be dispensed with, rather than a great and tragic figure to be truly mourned and reckoned with.” – Washington Post May 20, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 5 (2019) EDIT “"Game of Thrones," and Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" novels have always been about family. And on that score, the final season, and this episode in particular, are hitting many, many high marks.” – Washington Post May 13, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 4 (2019) EDIT “We're really whiplashing between lovely emotional send-offs to these characters and these relationships and a lot of extremely fast-moving plot. But in the moment, I was delighted to see all of these characters loose and wonderfully, vitally alive.” – Washington Post May 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 3 (2019) EDIT “"The Long Night" was a powerful, late-in-the-game example of how its showrunners and directors have too often mistaken the show's weakest qualities for its strongest.” – Washington Post Apr 29, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 2 (2019) EDIT “For all the fantasies of seeing Dany on the Iron Throne, it might be even more thematically apt for Dany to prove her Targaryen claim and to demonstrate her humanity by tearing apart the land she wants to rule.” – Washington Post Apr 22, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 7 (2017) EDIT “And the coupling implied by the title of this episode lacked either the fire of true passion or the ice of genuine manipulation.” – Washington Post Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 6 (2017) EDIT “"Game of Thrones" took its penultimate episode of the season to remind us just how little any one person can see of the past, and how important a whole portrait is.” – Washington Post Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 5 (2017) EDIT “It has been fascinating to watch this season as "Game of Thrones" has taken Randyll Tarly (James Faulkner), a character we knew mostly for his cruel treatment of Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), and turned him into a figure of complicated sympathy.” – Washington Post Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 1 (2017) EDIT “We've begun the journey, and it is going to be formidable.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 10 (2016) EDIT “"Winds of Winter" stuck the landing, assembling all of its chess pieces effectively for two final battles while also delivering some grand spectacle moments of pure delight.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 9 (2016) EDIT “As Dany learns to rule in Meereen and Sansa rises to power in Westeros, it's certainly asking what might happen when people who were meant to be bartered as chattel start to broker their own deals.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 8 (2016) EDIT “"No One" - in ways big and small - is devoted to the things the characters on "Game of Thrones" do for love of house, of honor and of individual people.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 7 (2016) EDIT “One of the best things "Game of Thrones" has been able to do consistently is to create convincing, charming relationships between grown men and young girls who serve as father and daughter figures for each other.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 6 (2016) EDIT “It's a daring innovation, to think of a state as a family, rather than simply as a prize to be claimed and controlled by a particular family.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 5 (2016) EDIT “Tonight's "Game of Thrones" was a particularly powerful exploration of how the people who live through great events begin to shape those narratives even before their stories are finished.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 4 (2016) EDIT “I'm ready to forgive "Game of Thrones" for a slow start, some anti-climaxes and an unnecessary bit of nastiness - and not merely because "Book of the Stranger" beat the idea into me.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 2 (2016) EDIT “In a escalating dose of Ramsay Bolton's brutality, and this is the least fun I've had with "Game of Thrones" in quite some time.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 1 (2016) EDIT “I wonder more and more if Roose Bolton chose the wrong norms to break; the world may will split open around him in ways that render Sansa Stark moot, at least for the role the Boltons intended for her.” – Washington Post Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Sherlock: Season 1 (2010) 93% EDIT “Sherlock demonstrates, bringing Holmes and Watson into the 21st century ought to have been, well, elementary.” – The Atlantic Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 10 (2015) EDIT “"Mother's Mercy," though, was a fitting end to a season that asked what we will do to the people we love, and where we go when even family can't save us.” – Washington Post Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 9 (2015) EDIT “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.” – Washington Post Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 6 (2015) EDIT “If this scene had to exist, the show's version of it... managed to maintain a fine balance, employing a dignity and care for the experiences of victims that "Game of Thrones" has not always demonstrated.” – Washington Post Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 5 (2015) EDIT “After five and a half years of watching "Game of Thrones," we've diverged enough from George R.R. Martin's novels that I have no idea what's coming in each new episode.” – Washington Post Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 4 (2015) EDIT “But even a slightly down episode of "Game of Thrones" is still an hour that we get to spend in Westeros and Essos, and another opportunity for the show to turn in a strong consideration of a theme.” – Washington Post Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 3 (2015) EDIT “Moments like this one make the world of "Game of Thrones" worth investing in, rather than abandoning it as lost.” – Washington Post Apr 2, 2019 Full Review
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