Review: 'Game of Thrones' paints its masterpiece with 'The Winds of Winter'

26 June 2016 10:04 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

A review of tonight's Game of Thrones season finale coming up just as soon as I examine the contents of this delicious meat pie... "But sometimes, before we can usher in the new, the old must be put to rest." -Qyburn Earlier today, a friend texted to ask for my final predictions on who would die in this episode. I quickly realized that I hadn't given the matter much thought at all in the past week, not only because the only death I particularly cared about at this stage was Ramsay's (and that was only to eliminate that character from the show), but because the combination of all the major deaths in previous years and Jon Snow's resurrection earlier this season had fundamentally devalued death as dramatic currency for the show. (It hasn't helped that so many other series have decided that this is the most important thing they can copy from GoT, »

- Alan Sepinwall

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