Game Of Thrones: 7 Things That "The Wars To Come" Did Right (And 3 It Didn't)

In the grand scheme of Game of Thrones, "The Wars To Come" wouldn't even crack the top 20 of episodes relying on sexposition in the narrative. Who can forget Littlefinger's brothel monologue with two prostitutes "training" in the foreground? Or Oberyn and Ellaria's introduction via auditioning candidates for their threesome? Or even the disturbingly graphic rape scenes at Craster's keep? The term wasn't exactly invented because of occasional fleeting glimpses of performers' private parts.

"The Wars To Come" was comparatively restrained with the sexposition and at least allowed some equal opportunity nudity in the scene with Dany and Daario, but its inclusion at all was far from necessary. Any viewers still on board with Game of Thrones after four seasons of sex and violence already knows that the show is willing to push the envelope for what it allows to air; showing a prostitute nakedly prostrating herself before the eunuch who regularly comes to her for innocent relief was so thinly justified for the scene that it reeked of gratuitousness and distracted from a poignant sequence. Sexposition is fine and occasionally even fun; the device needs to be used well and with some semblance of restraint for the plot to remain the highlight.