![]() Is an early episode that establishes the down-to-earth setting superior to a later one that injects high-fantasy magic and mayhem? Does a mid-season placeholder episode fare better than a fast-moving one that includes a real clunker of a scene? Are episode-long battles better than intimate character portraits, and if so, which episode-long battle is best? How do the blockbusters of the shortened last two seasons measure up to the slower pace of what came before? Is Shocking Death A more of a mindblower than Shocking Death B? (Or C, or D, or E?) ![]() “ The Sopranos in Middle-earth,” remember? From those beginnings sprouted a pop-culture phenomenon - and the most ambitious, expensive, divisive, and popular show in HBO history.Īll of which makes ranking the show’s episodes a proposition as tricky as taming a dragon. Game over! Now that we’ve finally learned the fate of Westeros and all of its surviving inhabitants, it’s kind of funny to recall that, once upon a time, this was a comparatively cozy little show about two rival families jockeying for power. ![]() Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by HBO
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