Lena Headey

Where there is style, it’s immaculate, but one look beneath the film’s candy shell reveals a hollow plot that is nearly impossible to follow or become invested in.

We are presently in a golden age of television. It would be nearly impossible for one person to sort through all of the television at our fingertips and decide what is or isn’t the best. This is where the Emmy Awards come in.

Whether on our laptops or in our living rooms, television has always been a space of escape, in which our ideologies are reflected back to us.

With a title so rife with symbolism as “The Dragon and the Wolf,” the seventh season finale of “Game of Thrones” was fittingly filled with significant imagery.

Every character has reached a significant point in their arc specifically compared to where they were this time last season.

The penultimate episode of every “Game of Thrones” season has historically been action-filled and exciting as it preps for the inevitable chaos of the finale.

With several family-related developments this episode, “Eastwatch” was all about the parents and children of Westeros — their relationships, the patterns of succession and the implications of their respective identities.

Where last week’s episode was an action-packed nailbiter, “Eastwatch” counters back this week with a flurry of equally suspenseful, if slower-moving, plot reveals.