Prediction: when Tywin’s end finally comes, Cersei will have a hand in it. The sideways glare Cersei gives Tywin right around the time he’s saying that the wisest kingsĪlways listen to their advisers is pure malice. The man shipped off her daughter to Dorne for a politically expeditious marriage, contributed directly or indirectly to theĭeath of Joffrey (more on this in a minute) and is now attaching himself like a Svengali suckerfish to her baby.
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Headey does some incredible eye-acting in this scene, standing stone still in mourning but signaling, with a series of downcast stares and hardīlinks, both maternal misery and growing alarm at the work her father is doing on Tommen. If you don’t want to end up like your brother here.” Ms. He’s standing there with his mother, Cersei, and grandfather Tywin (Charles Dance), who starts into a windy lesson that basically amounts to, “Listen to me SMASH CUT TO: Callow young Tommen at the side of his freshly dead brother. “Our alliance to the Lannisters remains every bit as necessary to them as it is unpleasant to us,” Lady Olenna says. She waves off Margaery’s vulgar but predictable complaints “You may not have enjoyed watching himĭie, but you enjoyed it more than you would’ve enjoyed being married to him, I can promise you that,” Lady Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg) says. He died choking, calling for his mother, she said. Credit Helenīack on shore, Margaery (Natalie Dormer) is lamenting her late husband, or at least the sad particulars of his passing. Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Lord Baelish (Aidan Gillen), together at last. Poor Sansa, we say for not the first or probably last time. Hollard rows her through convenient fog and hands her off. That Dontos Hollard’s grateful actions to save her were actually mercenary acts purchased by Lord Baelish, a.k.a. But from there we track swiftly to Sansa, who soon learns On Sunday, we started where we had left off a week earlier: on Joffrey’s rigid death mask as Cersei shrilly accuses Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) of his murder. All the more to shock and revolt us when petty, power-mad opportunists splatter with the screen with “Game of Thrones” impersonates a fairy tale, with its dragons and maidens and knights and the rest. Was coldly dispatched by Daario Naharis with a dagger in the eye. Even the dignified stallion in Meereen, the only competitor in that contest who didn’t relieve himself in front of everybody,
On Sunday, innocents were slain all over the place.
Season’s ubiquitous tagline, but it indubitably qualifies as truth in advertising: Everyone must die eventually, and it’s Someone else’s interest for him to do so, just like it was for that village father or even poor Dontos Hollard, felled by arrows after serving his purpose for Littlefinger. The young tyrant didn’t die because he deserved it. The message seemed to be that any sense of justice you might have derived from the murder of the malignant Joffrey was misplaced. (Really, Sam? A whorehouse is safer than a citadel?) There was the possibly redemption-bound Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), violating every known definition of decency by forcing rough, angry sex on his toxic twin sister,Ĭersei (Lena Headey), beside their son’s barely cold corpse.Įven Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), the show’s token keeper of the flame of human kindness, abandoned the love of his life and her infant in a filthy brothel. Widowed farmer in front of his young daughter. There was the gruffly appealing Hound (Rory McCann), tricking and robbing a There was poor Ygritte (Rose Leslie), her heart broken by Jon Snow, shooting a humble villager through the neck in front of his young son. Subplot on Sunday, disabusing viewers of any cuddly feelings that threatened to form for quasi-sympathetic characters. Indeed, just as “The Sopranos” occasionally had Tony curb-stomp a rival to remind you that you were pulling for a sociopath, the creators of “Game of Thrones” methodically went subplot by