The Rains of Castamere is the second last episode of Game of Thrones: Season Three, and this episode feels like it could have easily been the last of the show because of how many things are resolved in this episode just from The Stark's arc alone. This episode is the reason the series exists; the show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss pitched Game of Thrones to HBO with THIS story right here.
HBO loves making their serialized dramas have a true sense of believability to them, and Game of Thrones gave us this fateful chapter in George RR Martin's ambitious story. The Rains of Castamere is not just the name of the episode, but the name of a song that's been played throughout the series and is about this: the treachery of The Lannisters: 'in a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws'. And of course in this case, The Lannisters persuade Lord Walder Frey, hosting Robb (The King in the North) under his roof, to kill The Starks: an event to be known as 'The Red Wedding'.
The Rains of Castamere is an upsetting tragedy and for some viewers it put them right off the series for good; but there's still a massive story after this episode's finished and that's the beauty of HBO television shows: they're cinematic sagas getting the best stories squeezed out of them.
As a chapter in the Game of Thrones saga, The Rains of Castamere is THE turning point in the show and it has just about everything that makes the show haunting and memorable.
HBO loves making their serialized dramas have a true sense of believability to them, and Game of Thrones gave us this fateful chapter in George RR Martin's ambitious story. The Rains of Castamere is not just the name of the episode, but the name of a song that's been played throughout the series and is about this: the treachery of The Lannisters: 'in a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws'. And of course in this case, The Lannisters persuade Lord Walder Frey, hosting Robb (The King in the North) under his roof, to kill The Starks: an event to be known as 'The Red Wedding'.
The Rains of Castamere is an upsetting tragedy and for some viewers it put them right off the series for good; but there's still a massive story after this episode's finished and that's the beauty of HBO television shows: they're cinematic sagas getting the best stories squeezed out of them.
As a chapter in the Game of Thrones saga, The Rains of Castamere is THE turning point in the show and it has just about everything that makes the show haunting and memorable.