Game Of Thrones: Ranking Every Season From Worst To Best

1. Season 4

Season 3 is such a brilliant season of television that it takes something truly special to top it, and that's where Season 4 comes into it (it's no real surprise that the two best seasons of the show are based on the very best book of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire).

I mentioned earlier how Season 2 was arguably Peak Tyrion, but the only things that maybe tops it is the Season 4 iteration, which takes the character's entire history (both on-screen and predating it) and uses it to break him down in devastating fashion: his speech in The Laws of Gods and Men is Peter Dinklage's best acting on the series, the trial by combat an absolute thrill, and the kinslaying at the end a serious game changer.

Arya, too, has an incredible season, and it comes with another unlikely partnership. She and the Hound go on a trip around Westeros, leading to results that are, by turns, funny, shocking, poignant, and heart-thumpingly powerful.

The surprises were peppered throughout (Joffrey's death in just the second episode, what?!), it gave us one of the greatest single-season characters ever in Prince Oberyn, two of the series very best fight sequences (the Mountain vs the Viper, Brienne vs the Hound), and an epic encounter at the Wall to payoff Jon's long-running storyline (that scythe!).

It had some hiccups, such as Jaime's rape of Cersei, and Bran's storyline wasn't the most engaging, but coming off the back of the Red Wedding the show somehow found a new level to move to. It was personal, everything felt like it moved in sync, and the pacing and plotting was absolutely spot-on. Game of Thrones has never been better.

Best Episode: The Mountain And The Viper

Worst Episode: Breaker Of Chains

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