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Critic Consensus: With one of the most gruesome scenes to date, "The Mountain and the Viper" delivers a tense, twisty final scene well worth the wait.
Episode Info
Cast
as Tyrion Lannister
as Cersei Lannister
as Daenerys Targaryen
as Jaime Lannister
as Petyr Baelish
as Jorah Mormont
as Jon Snow
as Tywin Lannister
as Arya Stark
as Sansa Stark
as Bran Stark
as Joffrey Baratheon
as Theon Greyjoy, Theon Greyjoy/Reek
as Bronn
as Sandor "The Hound" Clegane
as Varys
as Tormund
as Brienne
as Stannis Baratheon
as Ellaria Sand
as Melisandre
as Roose Bolton
as Davos Seaworth
as Barristan Selmy
as Oberyn Martell
as Grand Maester Pycelle
as Mace Tyrell
as Ygritte
as Styr
as Margaery Tyrell
as Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane
as Grey Worm
as Missandei
as Grenn
as Pyp
as Dolorous Edd
as Ramsay Snow
as Anya Waynwood
as Yohn Royce
as Ralf Kenning
as Robin Arryn
as Donnel Waynwood
as Vance Corbray
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Critic reviews for The Mountain and the Viper
This episode ranks easily among the series' top five.
Game of Thrones has often punched me in the heart, but it's rarely had it fluttering so mightily in my throat.
But then Oberyn is also something of a showman and a show-off. It is there in the way he dresses, in his in-your-face PDA with Ellaria, in his ostentatious, capoeira-inflected fighting style... of course he is going to milk it for all it is worth.
If this sounds like a book-reader's quibble, well, it is. But as great as tonight's climax was, I think it could have been greater still.
Go Head Oberyn. The mind be a terrible thing to waste Oberyn. I love how you just put your thoughts out there Oberyn, thinking outside the skull. Box.
The titular battle not withstanding, tonight's installment also gave us a number of other major climaxes to propel us through the final three episodes of the season.
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