Reviews

***CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR EVENTS IN ALL EPISODES OF THE SERIES INCLUDING THIS EPISODE ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** ************************************************************** Awesome. All the foreshadowing we saw in this season and seasons passed, things we have been waiting for since the pilot episode are happening. Many story lines are tied up, many are set up for the following season(s) to come. Events from the first episode are finally set forth to come to pass next season. Loras faces his trial and fully confesses to "his sins". cersei lannister isn't playing around. In a ruthless brash way, cersei responds to her trial with an act that lights everyone up. Her little birds assist in a creepy savage type of way. Daario gets dumped because there is no place for him in westeros and he will only serve as distraction, as advised by Tyrion. Daenerys Targaryen gives Tyrion a promotion and he swears to serve as her hand. Arya finally makes it to Westeros and visits the Riverlands. Walder Frey feels the pain others can give if pushed too hard to vengeance. Lord Frey gets some pies made especially for him from Arya that his own sons were a part and regards from the Starks. Little finger basically proposes to Sansa with the plan to have him serve as king of the seven kingdoms with Sansa by his side, but she refuses this offer. We get a look at the tower of joy and Jon's parentage and the white wolf rises as the king in the north. Though Jon feels reluctant to serve as a leader and would prefer Sansa take up the title, he gets other houses pledged to him all the same. He banishes his get out of death free card for her actions against shireen. Westeros gets crowned a new ruler in kings landing, Jaime appears very conflicted at this moment after he returns to see Cersei. It will be very interesting to see how he reacts to Cersei's actions, Daenerys conquest to Westeros with everything she has been working for, Jon and Sansa in the north, if Bran will bring the wall down when he passes through the wall after being marked, the night king and his army and basically everything that is going to happen in the next season. It is going to be a long long year waiting for next season, hopefully we get Winds of Winter before then.

****CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Danny was not to happy about the state of Mereen, but couldn't expect anything less from the way it was left. She takes a much more aggressive approach then Tyrion in response to the attack. Daario is right, Danny is a great conqueror and commander, not the greatest ruler. Danny takes a flight over Mereen to take on the master's fleet while the Dorthraki deal with the sons of harpy. The arrival or Danny's dragons, Danny riding Drogon and the Dothraki Khalasar was spectacular. The dragons torch all of the the ships of Volantis, Astapor and Yunkai. Ramsay and Jon exchange terms. Sansa and Jon discuss Ramsay. Ramsay underestimates Jon and his army while Jon underestimates Ramsay initially. Yara and Theon make a deal with Danny's. Battle of the bastard begins.One of the greatest medieval battles on TV and film let alone in the series.Easily the most intense battles which felt like movie quality production and effects.Ramsay is much more organized and has much more men at first and better formations, until help arrives. Ramsay offers Rickon a game to offer him a way out. Roose made a correct prediction about people like Ramsay and the fate they eventually receive. One of the best episodes of the entire series. Wasn't without its character losses, but a battle victory comes at a price, but at least we got a decent outcome for our wishes. There was some nice justice we finally got. Enjoy it,we do not get much happiness and justice in GOT. Ramsay starts to go out as you would expect of Ramsay, but then we see a vulnerable Ramsay and some real revenge from characters he has played with.

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While this episode served mainly to set the stage for things to come, it was filled with great scenes and some great dialogue. One of my favorite scenes was Little Finger owning Lord Royce. Little Finger completely flips the threat on himself onto Lord Royce as Robbin is easily manipulated by Baelish who will really rule as Lord of the Vale. Curious to see Sansa encounter Baelish again. He did send her off to Ramsay but she needs the Vale so she will need to quickly forgive. Tyrion does some negotiating and acts in Daenery's absence and gets some backlash from his colleagues for his proposal to the Masters of Astapor, Yunkai and Volantis. Jorah and Daario reach Daenerys and attend the dosh khaleen. Daenerys heats things up and wins some support in the process. Can't wait to see the Tyrell's and Lannister's take on the High Sparrow and the faith and then Jon, Sansa, the wildlings, the Vale and any northern houses who will rally behind Jon and Sansa to take on Ramsay. Brienne gloats and talks some s*** to Davos and Melisandre. Cersei, Jaime, the Queen of Thorns and Kevin Lannister discuss working towards a common goal. Theon and Yara reunite in an iron born way, but never the less unite to make Yara the leader of the iron islands. Jon gets "the pink letter" as Ramsay personally calls Jon out and claims to have Rickon and will flay all the wildlings and makes a few other threats which influence their response to the letter. This episode really set the stage for the plot line in the north, Mereen and Vaas Dorthrak, King's landing. Can't wait to see the battles in the North. King's landing is about to go war as well as Mereen. The next 6 episodes should be amazing.

This episode was very good. No shocking reveals or resurrections, just good storytelling. This episode Jon wakes up from a long nap. With Davos and Jon both thinking WTF but not actually saying anything, Jon gets up realizing he was indeed dead. A lot It is said without words actually being spoken. Tower of joy. Much anticipated scene, I thought it was very well done especially Arthur Dayne, I thought he looked amazing with the sword. This was also interesting to see how things actually happened rather than the survivors interpretations of what happened. Unfortunately Max Von Sydow did blue ball us by taking Bran out of this vision before we could go into the tower. Hopefully we revisit this soon. Bran is not happy about getting taken out of the past to live in the present due to his happiness in the past and his dismal present and out looking future . Daenyrs joins other khal widows. We have not seen much of her this season through 3 episodes.. Lord Varys gets some information. Cersei states her intention to fight ser gregor as her champion against the faith. I am with Jaime, I cannot wait to see this trial by combat(CBGH) Pycelle lets loose after seeing ser gregor. The small counsel leaves Jaime and cersei. Tommen gets manipulated yet again. Very good scene with the high sparrow and tommen, tommen easily swayed after hearing something tywin once told him about listening to counsel so he takes this advice. Arya gets her sight back through it appears she is still drawn to her family, when she is praying to the olds gods of her family despite not knowing this while being blind. Rickon and Osha return and shaggy dog. I have watched this scene multiple times and I actually do not believe that was shaggy dog and I do not believe the Umbers are being straight with Ramsey. I don't know if it is just wishful thinking, but the wolf's head was small and Umber was throwing around a lot of insults and refused to swear any allegiance. We shall see. Jon gets justice against his murderers, we get justice with a long glimpse at #f*c*Olly. Jon states to everyone that because he has died, his watch has ended as he drops the mic and walks off stage.

***CONTAINS SPOILERS*** *********************** Amazing episode. In just the second episode of the season things pick up dramatically. A very cool flashback through one of bran's visions appears it will reveal something major that has been theorized for years.

Castle black gets dramatic between the mutineers and the help that arrives. Sir Robert Strong AKA the zombie mountain appears he will be a very useful tool for Cersei's revenge tear that appears to be on the horizon. Ramsay surprises though many of us saw this coming with instances of foreshadowing, though still shocking to see. The iron islands makes a nice return to season 6. Tyrion was shortly featured but had a very awesome scene with creatures I hope to see him in the presence of more in the future. A character that has spoken one word the entire series has spoken others.

Oh and that thing that we all kind of knew was going to happen, happened. Though I was certain it would happen (at least in my own mind), I was still on the edge of my seat the for the entire last scene of the episode thinking they may wait.

Once the episode ended and I watched the episode 3 promo, I became super upset that I have to wait a week because it looks like it is showing a scene that has been theorized about since the late 90's. This season isn't f***ing around. Things are moving fast and the entire story is in new territory past the books (for the most part).

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I was very worried about this show when it was announced while breaking bad was still airing, but couldn't be happier with this show. It retains a lot of the elements of breaking bad without trying to imitate the show that spawned it thanks to it's two very intriguing characters Saul and Mike.

The previous episode really just laid the foundation for this season and had some great B.B. easter eggs with a great unexpected opening taking place after the events of breaking bad and the season 1 premiere's opening scene. This episode featured Jimmy doing his thing at his new office enjoying all the perks but you can sense his reluctance of not being his own man on his own terms.

He takes a little side pro bono gig for the hilarious baseball card man Pryce (do yourself a favor and search youtube for Kenny Strasser). You get to find out about the Hoboken squat cobbler aka full moon pie aka boston cream splatt aka siimple simon the ass man". This interview seen is classic Saul Goodman and I really am looking forward to Jimmy's story arc. It seems as if Saul has always been Jimmy's true nature. We know where he will end up but the Journey will be the fun part.

We also get classic Mike being the great PI he is tracking down Pryce's baseball cards very easily and brokering a deal with Nacho. I can't wait to see what they do with Mike and how is going to progress in the criminal world and really want to know why he is buying that massive gun from the B.B arms dealer they have been featuring in the promo's.

****SPOILERS****** This season has been amazing, hard to say if better than the first because they were so different, but definitely the best thing on TV in a while. This episode wrapped up Peggy's, Ed, Hanze's and Lou's fate (mostly).

I have to be honest, it featured only one death I believe of a non important character which I was not expecting at all, I was expecting an at least medium death count and I thought Lou would take his gun shot wound. It really caught me off guard, I didn't like it at first initially but it ended up being better than what I thought.

Milligan ended up getting exactly where he thought he wanted to be, but it ended up being not at all what he wanted. After "the king" Milligan conquers the Gerhardts, he gets rewarded with a 9-5 accounting desk job, maybe he will out do the previous postage man!

Hanzee got a nice call to season 1, getting a new identity, face and becoming the season 1 Fargo mob boss. He helped out a young Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench, probably killed those two kids as well, what a guy. No but seriously, he was such a great character, so original he was such a great addition to the show. In the beginning I thought he was just going to be a stock bad*** wingman who is just there to help other characters but he ended up being one of the best characters on the show

Lou got insane delusional Peggy to safety. I really liked the freezer scene with Peggy and Ed, though Ed did you really have to tell Peggy you don't think it is going to work out as you are bleeding out? It was all her fault, but a little lie wouldn't hurt. I liked how they weren't obvious with Lou, we knew he was going to survive this season, there was going to be the Sioux Falls massacre and that he gets a leg wound at some point before season 1, but didn't know how any of this would take place. They could of had an insane shootout but I like the route they took better.

Lou and Betsy got a much happier ending than I anticipated, they got to really enjoy being together at least for that moment. I liked the discussion with the "Myth of Sisyphus" book that Noreen has been reading. She would bring up a nihilistic view how life is meaningless, but as Betsy is slowly dying she disagrees as did Lou inadvertently in another scene in the car saying we have a job, theirs is there family. Life is what you make of it. I really liked the more quiet bittersweet tying up of the season 2 story lines.

Can't wait to see where they go next season, this was by far the best anthology season of any show I have ever seen.

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After last season, I was very skeptical going into this season with the belief the material wouldn't be able to live up to it's predecessor. Season 2 has been just as great, hard to say which one I like better as they are very different.The massacre at Sioux falls has been talked about since Lou brought it up to Malvo in season one. We knew it was coming but had no idea how it would happen or who would be there. This episode is filled with more betrayals, horrible small town mid western police work, and a greatly timed UFO for Lou. The season had references to UFO's with Rye Gerhart seeing lights in the first episode which got him killed and Molly's drawing of a UFO and the little poster at the gas station. When I saw it I reacted like the characters did, like wtf is that? No way that's a UFO it's a weather balloon you can see water coming off of it. Well actually no it looks like a UFO but this is a crime drama why would they actually put that in there. I kept going back and forth until I accepted it was a UFO. However, we are getting the perspective from Martin Freeman reading from the History book so who knows if that frame of reference is actually accurate. It was one of the more bizarre experiences I ever had with television but I thoroughly enjoyed the episode from start to finish and cannot wait for next week.

***Contains Spoilers***, I don't understand why so many people don't like this ending and are complaining, saying it wasn't good they were expecting a twist, more questions answered etc. Nic Pizzolato said multiple times that the show is about the characters and he isn't trying to trick anyone. When the writer and creator of the series informs you that he isn't trying to trick anyone, I don't understand why some people where still looking for twists out of left field.I like the unanswered questions, like with Audrey. It shows how people are victim to horrible tragedies and they could be your friend, your daughter or whoever, and many times they never speak about it. A clean cut ending where everyone who was involved in the killing gets arrested and convicted would be the complete opposite of the consistent tone and message throughout the show. That is not what this show was. Obviously I would like more answers to some of the loose ends, because I am so interested in this show, but how it ended, was perfect for this show.