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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 7 The Bear and the Maiden Fair

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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 7

The Bear and the Maiden Fair

Aired May 12, 2013

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Dany exchanges gifts with a slave lord; Sansa worries about her prospects; Shae is irritated with Tyrion's new situation; Tywin counsels the king; Melisandre reveals a secret; Brienne faces a formidable foe.

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"The Bear and the Maiden Fair" feels like a bit of a holding pattern as Game of Thrones moves its pieces into place for the final three episodes.

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Lena Headey

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Emilia Clarke

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Tom Chivers

Daily Telegraph (UK)

03/19/2019

It's still a powerful programme, and it's rare that it wastes a scene. But there are now so many characters that some major plot points - Arya's latest misfortune, for example - are squeezed into too little space.

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Allison Keene

Collider

03/19/2019

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"The Bear and the Maiden Fair" delivered some towards the end, the rest of the episode was fraught with rich character building and small payoffs that are certainly propelling us into some interesting situations for the final three episodes (I swear!).

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Alison Herman

Flavorwire

03/19/2019

Unfortunately, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" is everything "Blackwater" was not: routine, uneventful, and worst of all, slowing down a season that just hit its stride after the sluggish pace of its early episodes.

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Randy Dankievitch

Processed Media

02/12/2020

B

[A]n exquisitely shot episode... without a whole lot going on.

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TK Burton

Pajiba

04/12/2019

The good news is that even the most uneven of episodes is still better than the vast majority of other stories out there, and there were still some terrific moments to be mined from this week's entry.

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Jeff Spross

Brightest Young Things

03/19/2019

That Ygritte used the same words to describe her relationship to Jon doesn't exactly bode well for how their story will play out this season. The vast impersonal forces of George R.R. Martin's world keep tearing spouses and lovers apart.

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Synopsis

Dany exchanges gifts with a slave lord; Sansa worries about her prospects; Shae is irritated with Tyrion's new situation; Tywin counsels the king; Melisandre reveals a secret; Brienne faces a formidable foe.

Director: Michelle MacLaren
Executive Producer: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza, George R.R. Martin
Screenwriter: George R.R. Martin
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013