10 Game Of Thrones Characters That Nobody Actually Cares About

4. The High Sparrow

The High Sparrow, played by the usually wonderful Jonathan Pryce, was introduced in season five as... well, what? A villain, essentially. Then again, nobody can really be classified as either a hero or a villain in Game of Thrones - it's that jaded morality that makes most characters on the show interesting, after all. That said, The High Sparrow is such a vaguely drawn character, boringly depicted, that it's hard to care about him in any way. If Game of Thrones is trying to make The High Sparrow into a figure of elusive evil that audiences are supposed to rally against in their masses, it ain't happening - he's another half-assed somebody to feel entirely indifferent about, because Jonathan Pryce plays him on a kind of autopilot. Live or die, is anyone really bothered about what happens to The High Sparrow?
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