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**WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! READ ONLY IF YOU HAVE WATCHED EPISODE 9** “How do 102 men stop 100,000?,” Jon Snow (Kit Harington) asks his brother Crows. Season 4 Episode 9, “The Watchers on the Wall” answers that very question in an episode that is as awesome and exciting as it is heart
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*WARNING: Spoilers ahead … Read only if you have already watched* One word: nausea — the only suitable word to describe Episode 8 of “Game of Thrones.” Nausea from extreme shock; nausea from extreme grotesque; nausea from extreme sadness. On “The Mountain and the Viper” Westeros is, per usual, swallowed
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When I saw the title of this week’s episode, I was excited to see that my long-time dream of an Eminem and “Game of Thrones” collaboration was coming true. I’m sorry to report I was mistaken. Season 4 Episode 7 of “Game of Thrones,” Mockingbird, is, like episodes prior, a conversation
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Did this episode have it all or what? I’m talking sex, suspense, pirates, blood, boobs, ass, hounds, dramatic voice-overs, dramatic reaction shots, suspense, humor, a trial, an accusation of discrimination based on dwarfism! Hell, here were even a couple eunuch jokes thrown in there! In
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We’re halfway through season 4 of “Game of Thrones” and things are just beginning to heat up in the Seven Kingdoms and beyond. Daenerys is on the move and gaining speed conquering much of Slaver’s Bay, the North is erupting in war and chaos and the crown is being passed in
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Last night’s episode was like “Game of Thrones” meets “The Goosebumps”: all the creeps and heebie-jeebies plus a lot of blood, a lot of naked, and a LOT of Daenerys Targaryen—unfortunately not at the same time. Episode 4, “Oathkeeper,” opens with the world’s most talented linguist Missandei—AKA Shannyn Sossaman in a Knight’s
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Nothing like a close-up of a dead boy to round out your Easter/April 20 weekend, amiright?! That’s how the third episode of the fourth “Game of Thrones” season began: a close-up shot of a dead, asphyxiated, poisoned King Joffrey — blood and who-knows-what spewing from every facial orifice. This week’s episode picked up just
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Serial killer and Santa impersonator George R. R. Martin, who authored last night’s episode, continued his ruthless killing streak on the latest episode of “Game of Thrones.” Two great tragedies befell the world in “The Lion and the Rose”: We were not blessed by the presence of Daenerys Stormborn of House
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Last night was just like the night Beyonce dropped her surprise album: pure magic. For just one hour, all violence around the globe came to a stop, friend and foe laid down their sword, allies and enemies danced hand-in-hand and the whole world gathered around their televisions or HBO GO
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Tweets of the Week Last week was spring break and, more than likely, you spent it watching Netflix, eating something mom thinks you like because “mushed bananas and carrots with hoisin sauce was your favorite as a kid,” or doing nothing on the Internet. While you were having the time of your life
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