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Game of Thrones season 5: news and episode reviews
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June 25, 2015
The real reason Jon Snow will return to Game of Thrones
There's no value in keeping his fate ambiguous unless there's a further twist down the road.
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June 21, 2015
Manage your Game of Thrones withdrawal with one of these 17 shows
It won't be back until 2016, so you'll need binge-watching recommendations. Fortunately, we have them.
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June 21, 2015
Game of Thrones season 6 predictions, from Dany's invasion to the fall of the Wall
Book readers are, for the first time, just as in the dark as everyone else.
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June 20, 2015
Game of Thrones' best and worst season 5 moments, from White Walkers to good grammar
Behold, the Vox staff's picks for the season's highest highs and lowest lows.
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June 17, 2015
Game of Thrones needs to refocus on the actual Game of Thrones
The story is leaning too far into spectacle when it should be concentrating on world-building.
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June 16, 2015
How Game of Thrones fell apart — and how it can be great again
Season five's overstuffed finale left the show in prime position for a series reset.
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June 15, 2015
Game of Thrones' incredibly grim finale actually made me hopeful for the future
"Mother's Mercy" was so full of death and despair that the series has nowhere left to go but up.
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June 15, 2015
The 10 most important moments of Game of Thrones' season 5 finale
The fates of so many characters are entirely in doubt when the episode ends.
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June 14, 2015
What Game of Thrones changed from the books: season 5, episode 10
There was lots of death in the season finale.
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June 14, 2015
Stannis dies, Dany rides for Westeros, and more Game of Thrones finale predictions
The Vox staff weighs in on what the end of season five may have in store.
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June 12, 2015
Game of Thrones is making Arya the most incompetent assassin ever
The confident killer of the books has become a bumbling noob on the TV show.
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June 11, 2015
Game of Thrones’ Stannis has doomed himself
Our latest theory: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss actually set up a false choice for Stannis, in preparation for pulling the rug out from under him in the season finale.
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June 10, 2015
Game of Thrones' endless parade of brutal twists is getting so boring
In some ways, the show is beginning to feel like internet clickbait that can’t possibly deliver on its lofty promises.
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June 9, 2015
Game of Thrones’ Shireen scene was perfect, and Stannis made the right call
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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June 8, 2015
Game of Thrones' Shireen scene reveals a huge problem with the show
The series has started shocking for shock’s sake, at the expense of its story.
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June 8, 2015
The 5 most important moments of Game of Thrones season 5, episode 9
Fire burns through the two most memorable scenes in this week's Game of Thrones.
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June 7, 2015
What Game of Thrones changed from the books: season 5, episode 9
The most brutal and shocking twist this week doesn't happen in the books published so far.
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June 7, 2015
Game of Thrones needs more hot dragon action
Also on my wish list: more screen time for the wildlings, and a swift resolution to whatever is happening with Ramsay, Roose, Sansa, Theon, and Brienne.
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June 4, 2015
Has Cersei’s incompetence on Game of Thrones lessened the impact of her downfall?
Also: Why the politics of King's Landing still matter, even with the White Walkers on the move.
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June 3, 2015
Did Game of Thrones' White Walkers just make all the show's other plot lines irrelevant?
At this point, how relevant are Sansa and what's happening at Winterfell?
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June 2, 2015
The Game of Thrones books are still much better than the TV show
Like winter, the payoffs are coming.
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June 1, 2015
Game of Thrones may have surpassed the books it's based on
The novels are great, but the TV show is a better overall telling of this story, at least at this point in time.
