The final season of ‘Game of Thrones’
Winter is here and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has come to an end. Here’s everything you need to know.
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Gwendoline Christie believes her Brienne of Tarth on ‘Game of Thrones’ emerged a winner. ‘Her happy ending wasn’t defined by a man.’
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With “The Americans” having gone back to the USSR and new seasons of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Crown,” “Westworld” and “Stranger Things” arriving too late to be eligible, this year provides Emmy voters with the chance to reward some overlooked actors in the drama races.
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There’s another fan-led “Game of Thrones” campaign making the rounds online, but this one isn’t calling for a rewrite of the controversial final season.
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Since the finale of “Game of Thrones” ran Sunday night, Gwendoline Christie has been asking local cab drivers what they thought, both of that last episode and the series overall.
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Is the Golden Age of Television passing? Or just taking the year off?
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If the last couple of election cycles have taught us anything, it’s that the road to the White House is paved with more town hall meetings than any one human with a functioning soul should ever be forced to watch.
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Warning: This story contains spoilers for the finale of “Game of Thrones.”
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Note to readers: This article contains a spoiler about the series finale of “Game of Thrones.”
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“Game of Thrones” will always be remembered for the strength and complexity of its female characters, flawed and fascinating women like Cersei Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen, who were beautifully portrayed even when the writing by showrunners D.B Weiss and David Benioff failed them.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of “Game of Thrones.”
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HBO’s highly anticipated finale of “Game of Thrones” on Sunday was the most watched program in the premium cable network’s history, with 19.3 million viewers.
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Warning: Spoilers for the “Game of Thrones” series finale below.
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The Iron Throne, “Game of Thrones’” ultimate prize that countless characters killed and were killed for over eight seasons of stellar storytelling, melted into a puddle during the series finale Sunday, dripping slowly down a set of stairs that once led to the realm’s coveted seat of power.
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In the end, as had so often been the case throughout the run of “Game of Thrones,” the best line of the series finale belonged to Peter Dinklage’s Tyrion Lannister.
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Warning: The following post contains spoilers for the series finale of “Game of Thrones.”
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“Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter is anything but a reliable source when it comes to “Game of Thrones.”
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The cows have broken loose.
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Spoiler alert: This column contains details about the fifth episode of the final season of “Game of Thrones.”
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“The Bells,” the highly controversial fifth episode of “Game of Thrones’” final season, may have gotten the series’ lowest Rotten Tomatoes score ever (along with its highest viewership numbers), but it did spark unusual interest in the creators’ after-show commentary, which had until this week been regularly dismissed as astonishingly super-dull.
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Despite some vocal complaints over the last few “Game of Thrones” episodes, what truly sets the series apart is its considered character development, its knack for taking them to places viewers might have never expected.
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Spoiler alert: This column contains details about the fifth episode of Season 8 of “Game of Thrones.”
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If you watch this week’s episode of “Game of Thrones” closely, here’s what you will not see: Jaime Lannister’s right hand, grown back all pink and healthy as if it had never been chopped off in Season 3.
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How IMDB keeps up with my screen appearances is beyond my ken.
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OK, in hindsight, maybe the Night King had a point.
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A faithful direwolf companion, Ghost has stuck by Jon Snow throughout his travels, his death and resurrection, and plenty of battles.
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“They wouldn’t, would they?”
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Forget those theories about the Night King’s true identity and dragon resurrections.
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After last week’s dark and disorienting battle that imagined “The Walking Dead” marching to battle toward another network, it was worth questioning how much “Game of Thrones” had left.
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The defining moment of the first episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” came when the sinister Jaime Lannister shoved 10-year-old Bran Stark out of the window of a high tower after the youngster spied Lannister and his twin sister Cersei having sex.
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Two pop culture behemoths took victory laps over the weekend, complete with crowds of cheering fans and hyperbolic math.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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So who had “ ‘Game of Thrones’ will just wrap up its whole Night King / humanity-unifying climate change allegory in 82 minutes” in their office pool?
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For the lead single from “For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series ‘Game of Thrones,’” Grammy-nominated R&B singer and songwriter SZA had no problem channeling the kill-’em-all energy of the show’s fiery Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen (formerly known as Khaleesi).
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‘After two episodes of tense reunions and fireside farewells, the big war that’s been coming since the first episode of “Game of Thrones” begins this Sunday.
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Most everyone who watches “Game of Thrones” has a theory or two about how “Game of Thrones” will end.
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Florence Welch took over vocal duties from Podrick Payne as the end credits of “Game of Thrones” rolled on Sunday night.
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For all the indicators of the passage of time that filled the second episode of the final season of “Game of Thrones” — a humbled Jaime Lannister, his brother Tyrion drinking with men by the fire instead of at the local brothel — it was seeing one of the youngest Stark children joining the series’ long line of sex scenes that colored the temples of anyone in the audience as much as on the show.
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The “Game of Thrones” Season 8 premiere was watched by 17.4 million viewers Sunday, a new season-premiere high for HBO’s wildly popular series.
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Well, you didn’t expect the battle to get started right away, did you?
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Forget winter. The Great War is coming. Armies are marching. Evil queens are scheming.
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Winter is finally here, but not, of course, for those attending the desert festival Coachella on Sunday.
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Like Jon Snow making the trek back to Winterfell, “Game of Thrones” returned home Friday night to Belfast, the Northern Ireland city that has been the series’ main production base for most of the past decade.
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The crowd packed into New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the final-season premiere of HBO’s juggernaut drama “Game of Thrones.”
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The literal and figurative dragons, direwolves, lions and White Walkers of Westeros are coming.
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Need to catch up on the entire “Game of Thrones” saga in time for the Season 8 premiere?
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When you binge-watch seven seasons of “Game of Thrones” in three weeks, you need to be prepared for a few things.
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With “Game of Thrones” drawing to a close, streaming networks and cable outlets are racing to produce the next pop culture-defining blockbuster.
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Her “children” are weapons of mass destruction.
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Cersei Lannister is not a nice person, and in the brutal world of “Game of Thrones” that’s a powerful advantage.
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It’s been Jon Snow’s throne to take from the beginning.
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Who will win the Iron Throne?
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A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell and she’s going to win the Iron Throne.
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As things stand now in the complicated and violent struggle to win the Iron Throne in “Game of Thrones,” Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) looks like a long shot.
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No one is rooting for the Night King.
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The eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” will hopefully answer at least one burning question: Can humans win a war against a magical ice zombie horde if they are too busy squabbling among themselves over politics and payback?
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Before they were cast in “Game of Thrones,” they were mostly obscure — supporting players in cult Danish political dramas and former member of forgotten pop duos from the ’90s.
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“So what should I be watching?” When you write about television, you get asked this question a lot.
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Ned was beheaded. Theon’s manhood was lopped off.
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From the moment in the pilot when Ned Stark beheads a Night’s Watch deserter with his imposing Valyrian steel longsword, weapons of every manner — blades, axes, arrows, bows, cudgels, clubs and more — have played a crucial role in the brutal universe of “Game of Thrones.”
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Camilla Naprous takes care of some of the biggest stars on “Game of Thrones” — its horses.
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As it turns out, there is a huge overlap in the Venn diagram of people obsessed with wine and people obsessed with “Game of Thrones.”
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Winter is here, all men must die and “Game of Thrones” will end — in a way that will no doubt leave many of us furious and all of us grief-stricken (especially if the “all men must die” is taken literally.)
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The final season of “Game of Thrones” starts April 14, but eager fans can pick up a treasure from “GOT” thanks to an ongoing jewelry collection inspired by the HBO blockbuster.
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Winter is coming — and so is plenty of merchandise.
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An army of the dead marched on Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday night for the New York premiere of the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones.”
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Cast and crew and fans gather and walk the red carpet for the “Game of Thrones” eighth and final season premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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Emilia Clarke broke all the rules and told her mother how “Game of Thrones” ends.
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As “Game of Thrones” prepares to end, there will be an accounting.
