Game Of Thrones: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 6

by James Hunt

1. The Winds Of Winter Is The GOAT

Game of Thrones wildfire King's Landing Sept of Baelor
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When The Winds of Winter first aired, it was immediately considered one of the greats. Definitely Top 10, perhaps even Top 5, and personally, I had it at 2nd, behind only The Winds of Winter.

With another season in the bag, and rewatches of both this episode and the entire series, The Winds of Winter does stand out as being the best episode of the entire show.

There's so much here that, in any other episode, would be the talking point: Cersei blowing up the Sept, Tommen's suicide, Arya's return to Winterfell and Frey pies, Jon being crowned King in the North, R+L=J being confirmed, and Daenerys finally sailing for Westeros.

Put all together, though, under the masterful direction of Miguel Sapochnik, with some of the finest writing Weiss and Benioff have produced, and *that* score from Ramin Djawidi, and it amounts to the most exciting, emotional, shocking, and beautiful episode of this TV show.

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