Beware: Full   spoilers   for the episode follow.   Hodor's ghostly dong, this was a busy episode.   Before you all freak out, an 8.5 is   not   a bad score. We're all well aware that every episode of this HBO adaptation is f more

GAME OF THRONES  “The Pointy End” Season 1 Episode 8 – Author of the original story George R.R. Martin pens the best instalment of the series so far. Jam packed with misery and despair, this episode abandons the clumsy sex-filled exposition which has more

Oh man oh man. This was a great episode. No coincidence that it was written by George R.R. Martin himself. You can’t play sudoku and watch this show. You can’t look away. You can’t mute it for a second. Just when you think you can breathe, you can’t. War more

'These people will do anything.' - Lysa Arryn 'And that is why we have to stop them! - Catelyn Stark It's been a while since George R.R. Martin wrote for television. Though the author of the book series on which 'Game of Thrones' is based had a long caree more

Assuming he actually fell to his better-armed foe after Arya left the room, Syrio Forel had about as good a fictional death as I've seen in a while, especially given what a relatively minor character he was within the grand scheme of things.  Taking more

The child characters on Game of Thrones have had their share of troubles and heartache, but on Sunday's episode, titled "The Pointy End," Arya is the first of Ned Stark's children to show how to survive the deadly game the adults are playing. Spoilers! more

As all hell is breaking loose, Ned is in the dungeon and Sansa discovers that her false love for Joffrey won't save her from her fate, Arya escapes the castle using "The Pointy End" of Needle. She has experienced her first kill, a boy not much older than more

Imagine if you're at lunch chatting with co-workers and all of a sudden a bunch of sword-wielding psychotics rush into the break room and start killing everybody. That's the feeling we get in these chaotic opening scenes of  Game of Thrones  Epi more