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Game of Thrones – Season 7, Episode 2 Stormborn

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96% Tomatometer 57 Reviews
Daenerys receives an unexpected visitor; Jon faces a revolt; Tyrion plans the conquest of Westeros.
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Game of Thrones — Season 7, Episode 2

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While necessarily setting up the events for the season, "Stormborn" features compelling strategic discussion, and a cracking action sequence to end the episode with a bang.

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David Malitz Washington Post 04/05/2019
"Stormborn," Season 7's second episode, was satisfyingly overstuffed with everything you could want - scheming, fighting, threatening, killing, graphic sex, even graphic surgery. Go to Full Review
Karl Quinn The Age (Australia) 02/15/2018
Being ballsy doesn't guarantee survival in Game of Thrones. But knowing when to cut and run just might. Go to Full Review
Ellen Gray Philadelphia Inquirer 08/18/2017
This is politics at its finest. Go to Full Review
Mikel Zorrilla Espinof 08/14/2019
In 'Stormborn', the time has come to start stepping on the accelerator so that these seven episodes that the seventh season has will give us enough. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Genevieve Burgess Pajiba 04/05/2019
Exemplified what I've found most frustrating with the show since they went off book, and that's the feeling that they're just checking plot points off a list instead of doing the work with the characters and the story to make them meaningful and important Go to Full Review
Neil Miller Film School Rejects 04/05/2019
Watching Game of Thrones dust off the cobwebs in last week's season premiere was hard, for some (including yours truly), but this week came with a reward for patience. Go to Full Review
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Episode Info

Synopsis Daenerys receives an unexpected visitor; Jon faces a revolt; Tyrion plans the conquest of Westeros.
Director
Mark Mylod
Executive Producer
David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza, George R.R. Martin
Screenwriter
Bryan Cogman
Network
HBO
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Drama, Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jul 23, 2017