Tomorrow, “Game of Thrones” returns, and the pieces pop right back on the chessboard. This is a series about complications and allies just as much as it is warfare; it is in many ways just as much chess as it is a game of Risk. So is there anything in particular you can expect to […]
Thanks in part to the premiere of “Game of Thrones” season 5 airing on HBO Sunday night, we are getting a few glorious opportunities at the moment to see some entertainment featuring the cast on various talk shows. Today, the winner here comes via Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who continues to be very game to make fun of […]
It has been a while since we’ve given you some assorted news highlights through a TV Quick Hits article, but this is something we envision ourselves doing a little bit more in the weeks ahead. One of the reasons why is because with May sweeps ahead, we’re going to have more stories than we can […]
Going into “Game of Thrones” season 5, many fans may have a different opinion of Jaime Lannister than what they did during the early days of season 4. Why? Much of it is due to what we believe to be the most controversial scene in the show’s history: The sexual encounter between his character and […]
We know that many longtime readers of A Song of Ice and Fire have been dreading the thought of “Game of Thrones” being ahead of the book series, and while we do think that this is going to happen eventually, we can at least tell you this: It probably won’t happen until after season 6 provided that […]
We’re not going to sit here and pretend that HBO is cramming a ton of new footage into their latest “Game of Thrones” promo, mostly because they didn’t. Most of this all-new clip, led by Danaerys (Emilia Clarke) and her famous “I’m going to break the wheel” speech, is something that you have seen and […]
If there has been a consistent knock about “Game of Thrones” over the years, it is that there is a tendency for some of the early episodes in a season to be somewhat lacking in the shock value, especially the premiere. The pilot episode was the last time we were genuinely shocked by a first […]
How do you know that you have a huge show? When your showrunners are booked on late-night talk shows! You don’t see that happen often, but it is precisely what took place with “Game of Thrones” executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” this week. (Yet, for some reason, […]
While there may be quite a few common bonds that exist between “Game of Thrones” the HBO series and A Song of Ice and Fire the book series, one very distinct different that we can point out at this very moment is this: They’re not going to end the same way. How could they? Just think about […]
“Game of Thrones” season 5 had its North American premiere last night in San Francisco, and for the most part, this allowed for one thing above all else: An opportunity to hear a little bit more about some of the stories that lie ahead. Given how much that some of the promotional material out there […]
