Game Of Thrones: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 6

2. This Is A Huge Return To Form

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As covered here, Season 5, while containing a lot of important work, wasn't a great season of the show. It's the one where the writers seemed to struggle the most, with a number of big missteps along the way.

Season 6, then, had a lot more pressure on it. It needed to prove the showrunners really could go forwards without the books, and that they were still capable of telling a story as well as they had in Seasons 1-4.

Luckily, they achieve that and then some. Season 6 works a little differently to those first four seasons, since it's about the heroes finally winning and giving us a lot more payoff to long-gestating plot points. It's superb to watch, with some thrilling storylines and layered character work, giving us one of the best seasons of the show.

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