Posts by Christian Long

[rating=8.00] “Kill the Boy” “A Targaryean alone in this world is a terrible thing.” While a seemingly disparate notion, Game of Thrones has been known to give a thematic nod to whatever holiday happens to intersect with it’s broadcast date. This episode looms heavy over notions of power versus legacy, and how these choices one makes […]

[rating=8.00] “The Sons of the Harpy” After a conspicuously meandering start to the fifth season, last night proved to be one of the most compelling, densely packed and brilliantly paced episodes so far. The repeated callbacks to it’s elaborate, built-in backstory balancing out the ongoing story arcs of those who have survived thus far, and […]

[rating=7.00] It says a lot about the first two episodes this season that the third can start with Arya sweeping the floors is seen as a drastic improvement. While she’s rededicated herself to Braavos, having passed the most indeterminate admissions test to enter training for the guild of assassins. While she loudly protests the remedial […]

[rating=5.00] The episode opens with Arya, last seen boarding a ship after escaping the offered protection of Brienne, and snatching a bag of coins from a badly beaten and (we assume) dying Hound, reaches her destination of Braavos. She’s taken to the House of Black & White, looking a bit like a rejected, Muppet-less set […]

[rating=6.00] “No prophecies, dreams or flashbacks.” That was the agreement the two Game of Thrones showrunners, David Benioff and D.B Weiss, had with one another when they started filming the first season. By the end of the second season, they’d broken both the first two. The highly-anticipated fifth season premiere, ‘The Wars to Come,’ breaks […]