game of thrones

  • Hopes for WestWorld Season 2

    In two weeks WestWorld returns to fill Game of Thrones’ usual slot in the television calendar and while the fantasy show is winding down towards its final season next year, WestWorld, which was HBO’s most viewed series premiere since True Detective, is gearing up for a second season that...
  • The Ten Best Television Episodes of 2017

    For the spoiler-conscious beware! I’ve tried to stay vague and avoid spoilers but some small ones might slip through. Tread carefully. It’s been a great year for television, whether streaming or traditional, as new shows made fantastic debuts, modern classics came to an end and classics returned to our...
  • Game of Thrones: Characters Who Should Return as Wights in Season 7

    I’ve just finished my revisiting Game of Thrones season 6 articles, which you can read on the site now, and those things are behemoths. Exploring subtext and recapping narratives over thousands upon thousands of words has sapped away my already strained cognition and yet with Game of Thrones season...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 3: Across the Narrow Sea

    There’s a misconception about Star Trek movies that entered the common parlance many years ago and has since become seen as fact. The soundbite claims that all even-numbered films are good while the odd-numbered instalments are bad. This just isn’t true for Trek but it does ring true –...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 2: The South

    Season six of Game of Thrones proved to be the show’s most eventful to date and in no area more so than the south of Westeros. From the Twins to the Riverlands, from King’s Landing to Dorne, the region was a hotbed of show-shifting events and deaths as characters...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 1: The North

    The phenomenon that is Game of Thrones returns next month for its penultimate season and, just like the last few years, I’ve been watching the previous season in preparation. When watching the show for a second time, away from all the hype and media buzz, it’s a different experience...
  • Tanked Up 75 – Link’s kind of a DIPA… v13

    Ben and Aadil are joined by the lovely Lucy once again for the last of our Cloud Water DIPA specials. We talk the difference between seeking games/consoles at release versus seeking out those lucious rare craft specials, Tell Tales’ Game of Thrones & Tales from the Borderlands and a...
  • What Should The Game of Thrones Spin-offs Be?

    With only thirteen episodes left of the worldwide phenomenon that is Game of Thrones it makes sense that HBO continue the series after the core show ends. Rumours have been flying for years now about a possible spin-off to the show but HBO has made the unprecedented move of...
  • TV’s Having An Absolute Blinder

    Westworld, Planet Earth II and Still Game have combined in recent weeks to ensure that I have been thoroughly enjoying my time spent watching TV. Despite the return of many series, that are regular features on my watching list,in the last month or two (NCIS, The Flash etc) I...