From 2014 until the show’s finale in 2019, LARB’s Dear Television series helped Game of Thrones fans process the stirring, enraging, and disappointing developments of each episode. Now that the show is over, no need to rewatch it — you can relive it instead by rereading Aaron Bady, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, et al. as they ponder each week’s episode, all the way until the final write-up, in which Mesle muses on how she will “let it go.” — LARB Editorial
Television Section: LARB’s Collected “Game of Thrones” Coverage
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Iron Throne"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle consider the new occupant of the Iron Throne and what got them there and ask, "But why, though?"
Fans with Feels: Game of Thrones as Soap Opera
Kristen Warner is here to tell you that Game of Thrones is a soap opera, that you are soap opera fans, and that it's okay.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Bells"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak consider the relative madness of the queen(s) on Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Last of the Starks"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle check in with the last of the Starks on the day after the long night in Westeros.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Long Night"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak reluctantly celebrate all the characters who survived "The Long Night," they guess.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "Winterfell"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle dramatically reunite to discuss "Winterfell" and why it's a dumb idea for Game of Thrones to ever really end.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Dragon and the Wolf"
Every city in the world is built on wildfire — Dear Television on the end of Game of Thrones, season seven.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Eastwatch"
That bowl of fermented crab seems sort of unsteady; how do you keep it from spilling if you’re taking that little rowboat on the ocean? Invest in some good Tupperware, would be my advice.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Spoils of War"
Dear Television ponders which chosen one is the most chosen, and whether there's something else dragons can do.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Queen's Justice"
Dear Television discusses what happens when the Game of Thrones is only played by veterans and no rookies.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Stormborn"
Tarly Tarly Bo-Barly Banana-Fana Fo-Farly Fee-Fy-Mo-Marly TARLY!
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Dragonstone"
Soup, Poop, and Climate Change
Fiery Heaven, Bastard Earth: The Cosmology of “Game of Thrones”
Jedediah Purdy on why the pleasures of "A Song of Ice and Fire" aren't just narrative and political, but also cosmological.
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Winds of Winter"
Winter is here!
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Battle of the Bastards"
Evil Father’s Day: or, We’re Not Going to Do That, at Least Maybe Not
Game of Thrones, Season 6: "No One"
Let's not go to Riverrun, it's a silly place.
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Broken Man"
You Know I’ll Never Hurt You, Right: Or, Chopping Wood in Westeros
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Blood of My Blood"
Imma Let You Finish But Don’t Drink That, She’s Trying to Kill You
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Door"
“We can go home now, Hodor”
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Book of the Stranger"
"I'm With Her"
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Home"
Jon Can’t Go On, He’ll Go On
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Red Woman"
Here’s a thought experiment for you. What if the person gazing at the naked Melisandre — gazing at all the women in this episode — was Prince?
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "Mother's Mercy"
What Happened and What Should Have Happened
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"
Fantasizing Consent
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "Kill the Boy"
50 Shades of Greyscale
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "Sons of the Harpy"
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "High Sparrow"
Cersei Lannister’s Last F–ckable Day
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "The House of Black and White"
50 Shades of Black and White
Game of Thrones: Season 5, "The Wars to Come"
Eyes Wide Shut
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Children"
Arya's American Fantasy
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Watchers on the Wall"
Mammoth Genre
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Mountain and the Viper"
The Trans Oberyn Tipping Point
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Mockingbird"
Westeros Self-fashioning
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Laws of Gods and Men"
Ten Things I Hate About My Favorite Show
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "First of His Name"
Hurt Girls
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Oathkeeper"
Game of Thrones, Cliven Bundy, & the Fantasy of Freedom
Game of Thrones, Season 4: "Breaker of Chains"
'Do I Have a Champion?'
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Lion and the Rose"
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Joffrey
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Two Swords"
“Game of Thrones”: Cynicism Rules
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