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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critic Consensus: 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.
It's been a cautious start to Game of Thrones season seven. But, following further, patience-testing re-arranging of the chess pieces, episode two went out in a literal blaze of glory.
In the same episode that proves why family bonds might not be worth the banners their sigils are printed on, the action-packed finale drives a literal and figurative stake through some of the series' most notable familial connections.
We're in turbo mode: Game pieces are flying across the tables of various Westerosi war rooms, and certain details need to be yada-yada'd.
This is politics at its finest.
"Stormborn," proves that the table setting always pays off in Game of Thrones by giving us a sample platter of everything that the show does best.
If you've ever been frustrated by characters withholding information on this show, "Stormborn" is offered up as a medicinal salve for your gross, infected greyscale wounds.
"Stormborn" - the second episode of the seventh season - is a deeper look at what goes into planning a war that involves so many moving pieces, and how easily things can go wrong when you're short on intelligence.
You can lob valid criticisms like fireballs toward Game of Thrones all day long but my goodness, does this show know how to pull off an impressive battle.
Everybody loved Oberyn like he was Jigga and then the Sand Snakes came along like Memphis Bleek.
Perhaps the days of Game of Thrones surprising us are gone -- but the ways in which it marches to its endpoint are still so rewarding.