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

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Game of Thrones – Season 5, Episode 9

The Dance of Dragons

Aired Jun 7, 2015

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Fantasy

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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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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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Lena Headey

Queen Cersei Lannister

Emilia Clarke

Daenerys Targaryen

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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Aidan Gillen

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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