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Critic Consensus: An exquisitely crafted episode, "The Door" culminates in a gut-wrenching revelation that makes the loss of a beloved character all the more poignant.
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 Sansa Stark
as Arya Stark
as Theon Greyjoy
as Bronn
as Varys
as Samwell Tarly
as Melisandre
as Brienne of Tarth
as Davos Seaworth
as Margaery Tyrell
as Roose Bolton
as The Night's King
as Tormund
as Podrick Payne
as Ramsay Snow
as The Waif
as Olenna Tyrell
as Ellaria Sand
as Missandei
as Three-Eyed Raven
as Tommen Baratheon
as Hodor/Wyllis
as Daario Naharis
as Izembaro
as Euron Greyjoy
as Jaqen H'ghar
as High Sparrow
as Dolorous Edd
as Grey Worm
as Bran Stark
as Gilly
as Meera Reed
as Aeron Greyjoy
as Leaf
as Yara Greyjoy
as An Ironborn
as The Night's King
as Kinvara
as "Ned Stark" actor
as Bobono
as Bianca
as "Joffrey Baratheon" actor
as Lady Crane
as Red Priest
as Young Old Nan
as "Margaery" actress
as Wyllis/Young Hodor
as Rickard Stark
as Young Eddard Stark
as Young Benjen Stark
as Young Rodrik Cassel
as Braavosi Woman
as Braavosi Woman
as Mummer
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Critic reviews for The Door
This season of Game of Thrones is moving at a crazy fast clip, and we're all in mourning right now. But in the bigger picture, we got what might be the biggest reveal we've ever seen on the show.
Winter is coming and this week it came for Bran.
For a show that kills off characters left and right, this one hurts the most.
Tonight's aptly- (and poignantly-) titled fifth episode, in which we see the origin story of the White Walkers, and how the good-natured Winterfell stableboy Wylis became Hodor. It is brilliant and at the same time so simple - and so heartbreaking.
All this stitching together of past and present resulted in an unusually satisfying episode, one that offered crucial context and invited viewers to game out the story's future.
I love it whenever the show shifts its attention from the usual, highly concentrated loci of power to the "regular folks" that populate the edges of Game of Thrones's world.
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