So ends the most daring episode of Game of Thrones ever. It’s the Red Wedding writ large, a masterpiece that murders all hope of neat closure, and reduces any lingering belief in the redemptive power of violence to ashes in our mouths.
I reviewed the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, the series’ best, for Rolling Stone.
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