Game of Thrones

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Season 6
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 17, 2011
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 1701 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 164 out of 1701
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  1. Esthete
    Dec 10, 2018
    0
    Well, at least now we know what Benioff and Weiss are capable of, without source.
  2. Alexthurmane4
    Apr 25, 2016
    2
    Game of Thrones started its 6th season, and the white walkers are still walking. Johns dead, and we knew that already. This series is starting to be like all the rest. Dragging the plot out as long as possible just to make more money. Only problem with that is...yes im bored, and tired of watching the same ole plot never ever working out. Time travel would be the only thing worse at this point.
  3. lemonademaz
    Apr 24, 2016
    2
    Nothing happens: The Episode
    Incredibly boring, not even 40 minutes long (without recap), those stupid sand snakes can apparently teleport now, Mel is a thousand year old monster or something when she takes the neclace of (which she already did before and nothing happened)

    Why bother watching the rest of this season

    Please George finish the books so I can rest in peace
  4. leaveit
    Apr 25, 2016
    0
    First episode: It was only 40-some minutes long, but I had time to fall asleep twice. There is a 5-10 minute clip show recap at the start, and following this is 30-40 minutes of more recap. Some stuff happens that obviously has nothing to do with the central plot, if you can even figure out what that plot may be. All the actors have aged about 3 decades since the first season, and as usualFirst episode: It was only 40-some minutes long, but I had time to fall asleep twice. There is a 5-10 minute clip show recap at the start, and following this is 30-40 minutes of more recap. Some stuff happens that obviously has nothing to do with the central plot, if you can even figure out what that plot may be. All the actors have aged about 3 decades since the first season, and as usual you won't even see them all in this episode. Bran and co. are completely absent, Arya does nothing but begin training to be a character archetype that is so stereotypical that there's a G.I. Joe made after it, still no sight of Lady Stoneheart which I guess they thought was too much more embarrassing than everything else. Ser Frankenstein is not present, Tommen is not present, Tyrion is thinking about turtles, Littlefinger doesn't exist, the Greyjoys don't exist, Davos and Melisandre have small talk, Sam doesn't exist, the white walkers don't exist, and Daenerys has about one scene.

    With that said, go ahead and see if you can come up with a way to stretch a full episode out of what remains. That is what Weiss and Benioff did.    … Expand
  5. MahbubAli92
    Apr 30, 2019
    0
    Awful show, at this point it just wallows in vulgarity and pointless violence and cringeworthy "Strong Wahmen" cliches. The writers really had no idea what to do once they lost the grounding of GRRM's writing and turned it into a pile of Hollywood stereotypes. Sad!
  6. VidyaBum
    Aug 20, 2016
    2
    Pfahahahaha, I'm sorry but this was laughable.

    The entire season felt rushed, many battles were implied instead of shown(I'm guessing they ran out of money), an enormous amount of stuff felt like it was shoved in to surprise people but it just felt pathetic. The mixup between murder porn scenes, which have reached an overload by this point, and much more reserved character scenes is    Pfahahahaha, I'm sorry but this was laughable.

    The entire season felt rushed, many battles were implied instead of shown(I'm guessing they ran out of money), an enormous amount of stuff felt like it was shoved in to surprise people but it just felt pathetic.

    The mixup between murder porn scenes, which have reached an overload by this point, and much more reserved character scenes is abominable, you spend 20 minutes watching people getting murdered left and right and then you shift to samwell tarly and his awkward family reunions that don't even matter at all to the main storyline.

    Besides the editing and time spent on characters vs time spent on axing people and things, good job on the return of forgotten characters like Osha, who honestly considering her screen time, really didn't need to come back, or pointless murders where the emotional element is completely absent.

    I could count the number of ways in which this season was horrid, but I haven't got 500 000 characters, so let's just say this: it feels like a fanfiction. A really, really crappy fanfiction of GoT.

    To illustrate, let me remind you of something and then spoil something new: In Season 1(or 2, or 3), when Cersei wanted to kill someone, she'd make sure for him to get too much to drink and get skewered by a boar, or she had them discreetly assassinated, poisoned, or better yet she maneuvered so her enemies would infight. The complexity of the intrigue was what made GoT exciting, fun and feel like a real cohesive world filled with tons of awesome characters.

    Here, and this is spoilers, she literally shoves a regiment of wildfire caskets under the Great Sept, then blasts them with Tyrells, members of the small council, and the entire Faith Militant standing above, setting fire to a huge portion of the city, destroying the entire standing government, killing all the heirs of a great House, and essentially showing that she will go to any length of massacre to get away with her crimes. And you know the best? Right after committing arson, destruction of national monuments and mass slaughter, she crowns herself queen! How? On what legal basis? Apparently, the basis of having killed everyone else that could claim the throne or contest the claim in the city at that moment.

    Spoilers end here, and I'm pretty sure that now, it's best for GoT to also end here. I have not seen a series this great fall this low in a long, long time, possibly ever. I sincerely hope that it ends quickly, because by now a generally awesome series is damaged completely beyond repair, and it was already bad in season 5.    … Expand
  7. Calasade
    Jun 9, 2016
    2
    Writing is way inferior to that for the previous five seasons. Convenient saves and seems like no one good ever stays dead. At this point I anticipate Robb and Lady Starke to come back from the dead.
  8. JasonR
    May 23, 2016
    0
    I gave the first episode a 7. That was hasty. This is turning out to be the best season of GOT yet. Maybe because as a book reader I dont know whats going to happen, but its been amazing since Episode 2.
  9. wenlushiren
    May 29, 2016
    0
    After viewing the latest episode "blood of my blood', all I can say is I DO regret the 60 minutes wasted on this classic-turning-soap opera. The plot feels weak compared with previous seasons. The dialogue have no wits whatsoever, character`s motivations have no firm ground, all the twist either feels predictable or just pale because coming from no where.

    I have turned from wondering    After viewing the latest episode "blood of my blood', all I can say is I DO regret the 60 minutes wasted on this classic-turning-soap opera. The plot feels weak compared with previous seasons. The dialogue have no wits whatsoever, character`s motivations have no firm ground, all the twist either feels predictable or just pale because coming from no where.

    I have turned from wondering whats going on next in this intense series to struggling whether to waste once again my time and expectation in the next boring soulless and fragmented episode.

    Clearly, George. R. R. Martin`s masterpiece is ruined by the hand of Modern TV script writers. They are just not that into his WORLD!!!! Those screen writers just fills this show with so many modern T.V. gimmicks instead of taking GRRM`s colorful originality.

    Maybe only by isolation from the modern world`s noises, and sit next to an old PC, can one be as original in creating a huge imagination world as colorful as G.R.R.M.....    … Expand
  10. Deego
    May 16, 2016
    1
    It really hurts me to admit this but it already was coming. Since the fifth season, he felt that Game of Thrones would worsen the quality. And it is now at its climax.
    Game of Thrones is not what it once was. There is no intelligent, complicated and exciting dialogues as in the first 4 seasons. To generate an impression, they believe that they should kill someone by surprise. It looks    It really hurts me to admit this but it already was coming. Since the fifth season, he felt that Game of Thrones would worsen the quality. And it is now at its climax.
    Game of Thrones is not what it once was. There is no intelligent, complicated and exciting dialogues as in the first 4 seasons. To generate an impression, they believe that they should kill someone by surprise. It looks like a show of many. It has become very predictable, exaggerated, forced and tedious.    … Expand
  11. cucukatu
    May 31, 2016
    0
    It makes one's jaw drop if you compare how lazy and unexciting and illogical this show has become to what it used to be.
    It is as if the show runners are trying everything they can to prove they are capable of ruining what was one of the greatest show of all time, simply because they can.
    The show used to have great pacing, smart dialog, a yummy heavy atmosphere and care worthy    It makes one's jaw drop if you compare how lazy and unexciting and illogical this show has become to what it used to be.
    It is as if the show runners are trying everything they can to prove they are capable of ruining what was one of the greatest show of all time, simply because they can.
    The show used to have great pacing, smart dialog, a yummy heavy atmosphere and care worthy characters like the hound. There were also genuinely shocking scenes like the red wedding that is surprising but still logical. Now they spend half an hour showing you Sam's family greeting each other before rushing to show yet another scene of dany riding a dragon and giving a speech. I am done with this.    … Expand
  12. Jkling1967
    Jun 6, 2016
    1
    This series has lost it. Should be renamed game of drones. No action. No direction. Too many story lines so there is no depth to anything. The writing is poor. What a bummer!
  13. TrueReview01
    May 29, 2016
    0
    This new season of GOT has become more of the same TV soap opera junk that many late season big shows become. It is unfortunate, but true that the shows slowed to a snails pace. No tempo, just slogging through one episode to the next with the inevitable feeling that the show runners now haven't a clue how to write and present the series without G.R.R.M. The show is now so thin on storyThis new season of GOT has become more of the same TV soap opera junk that many late season big shows become. It is unfortunate, but true that the shows slowed to a snails pace. No tempo, just slogging through one episode to the next with the inevitable feeling that the show runners now haven't a clue how to write and present the series without G.R.R.M. The show is now so thin on story that most scenes are so lacking of any context, and missing any depth. The series is now all foreground, within each scene, plot line, and character. Thin, and just going through the motions. I'm sure GRRM will always wish he'd had kept control, or made the show take a hiatus until he finished it himself. Bad on HBO for forcing this show in this way, and it seems there has been a change in HBO that they'd bungle their super show so seriously.… Expand
  14. MrsY
    Jan 5, 2017
    0
    I was a huge fan of Game of Thrones but...it just disappoints me by now. The first three seasons were really good. It was fun to have watch such a great series based on an amazing book. The ones after that? Not worth watching to be quiet honest. And I no longer will watch this. The whole thing has become very predictable and exaggerated. Sad.
  15. red_rhino
    May 1, 2016
    2
    I have never written a review, but I had to come out of the woodwork because my favorite TV show is dying a horrible death. I have started to call it A Dallas With Dragons to my friends.

    Nothing is really wrong, per se, but just a little bit off. This whiff continues to grow with each episode since they introduced the Spain, sorry, Dorne timeline last season. No great monologues, witty    I have never written a review, but I had to come out of the woodwork because my favorite TV show is dying a horrible death. I have started to call it A Dallas With Dragons to my friends.

    Nothing is really wrong, per se, but just a little bit off. This whiff continues to grow with each episode since they introduced the Spain, sorry, Dorne timeline last season. No great monologues, witty insights, one liners - ok there are one liners, but that's all there seems to be these days. Gone are the days of spending 15 minutes with Jamie and Brienne in a sauna waxing lyrical on legacy.

    Unfortunately, without Martin's books to quote directly from, the dialogue is cringe worthy at times. I am no expert, but I have seen seasons 1-3 about 5 times and the rest at least a couple. I also read the books (I admit I skimmed some points of views, but I got the gist) and noticed some dialogue was verbatim in the show.

    I hope they sort out this cheesy dialogue problem and start allowing stories to breathe again, and relationships to build. They have killed off everyone I really liked, except of course Tyrion, so at least develop some interest in the remaining bozos. If they carry on like this soap opera, bouncing from on location to the next, I will honestly cry.    … Expand
  16. M_Marco_M
    Jun 28, 2016
    2
    The poorest aspect of the season are the dialogues, they are just terrible, especially if compared to the masterpieces of the first few seasons. Some of the characters seems to be doing things in completely random way just for the sake of making the show works. Side characters with little or no importance tend to have a huge attention (Blackfish for example) at the expenses of the timeThe poorest aspect of the season are the dialogues, they are just terrible, especially if compared to the masterpieces of the first few seasons. Some of the characters seems to be doing things in completely random way just for the sake of making the show works. Side characters with little or no importance tend to have a huge attention (Blackfish for example) at the expenses of the time dedicated to the main plot to which they do no contribute in any way. The last two episodes were a bit better but only because something finally happened. Loved the soundtrack of the last episodes.… Expand
  17. weirdcryo
    Apr 26, 2016
    2
    It seems they will keep dragging the plots like season 5.
    I only saw the first episode and, after last season, I'll assume they will somehow extend plots that should take 4 episodes into 8 then give an episode full of action and then 1 or 2 more episodes to wrap thing ups.
    If for some reason I keep watching and things don't develop this way I'll update this.
  18. vankar
    May 31, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This season its a disgrace for the show and the books.it started from season 4 but now its even worse.the story follow irrational path and the actions that happens don't have real consequences. a great example is the dorne part. The paramour ellaria sand murders prince doran (beloved brother of her love) to avenge the death of her love(only because he dint share with her his plans) and after the murder no one call this treason and send them to death some "sands" murder the prince of their country and its all ok (hope they not call themselves queens/ princess and whatever else) . All this cause in the past season dorne dint go well in views (cause they butchered it) Many other thing happens like killing all the cgi wolfs fast without the right pacing . i rly loved the series until 3rd season, i tolerated 4 and 5 but i cant watch this anymore they go just for the shock value without the story behind it… Expand
  19. MAGA_Man
    Jun 20, 2016
    0
    This has always been a guilty pleasure show and it's never been truly good, but at least for the first few seasons it made some resonant points about the nature of power, nobility, myth, and warfare. The quality sure fell off quick though, and now in the 6th season it's just a bloodthirsty, degenerate cartoon with no point except to let nerds talk around the water cooler about who gotThis has always been a guilty pleasure show and it's never been truly good, but at least for the first few seasons it made some resonant points about the nature of power, nobility, myth, and warfare. The quality sure fell off quick though, and now in the 6th season it's just a bloodthirsty, degenerate cartoon with no point except to let nerds talk around the water cooler about who got killed off. Shame!

    This season was especially notable for its weird sexual politics. They wrecked the best female characters by taking multifaceted and interesting women and insultingly turning them into one-note Mary Sues (Arya, Sansa, Brienne, and especially Daenerys) who spend all their time smirking and snarking at people. Dany especially does almost nothing but smirk through half-closed eyes in every scene she's in, it's pretty comical once you pay attention to it.

    Meanwhile the male characters are all either defenseless cripples (Tyrion, Varys, Theon, Doran), servile bootlickers of women (Daario, Jon Snow, Littlefinger, Podrick, Grey Worm, Samwell), or both (Jorah, Jaime). Honestly the only likable guy on the show this season was Ramsay Bolton, since he actually seemed to be having fun and acting on his own volition. So the women are all trying to be men (with hilarious results) a bunch of the men literally have their balls cut off, and the only people who could find this mess entertaining are nerds who are very confused about human sexual dimorphism.

    They should make spin-off shows about Bronn picking tavern fights and Margaery making power plays in the royal court with charm and guile, because everything else on this show sucks now.    … Expand
  20. Vibalist
    Jun 27, 2016
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show is becoming so neat. Not neat in a good way, but neat in the sense that somehow everything magically ties together, and/or works out perfectly for the good guys. Benjen shows up again as blatant fanservice (just in the nick of time to save Bran, of course), Daenerys is suddenly able to control her uncontrollable dragon out of nowhere because the plot requires it, Sam steals a valuable sword without his controlling father or anyone else noticing, and earlier in the season we've had that terrible tent burning scene with Dany, Jon Snow coming back to life despite the fact that the logical conclusion to character arc should've been his death, Yara managing to steal a whole fleet because apparently no one on the entire Iron Islands was guarding it. Not to mention that characters are suddenly able to kill their own family members left and right without repercussion, as seen with Ramsay and the Sand Snakes. Didn't this use to be a grave offense, something that you couldn't just do? Isn't that why Joffrey, for instance, didn't just kill Tyrion, despite the fact he was the king?

    I don't remember the earlier seasons breaking their own established rules to such a ridiculous extent. The reason they moved along so slowly was because characters couldn't just walk up to each other and kill each other without consequence, and the reason they felt tense and exciting was because you truly didn't know who would bite the bullet the next time. Does anyone honestly feel the least bit afraid for Dany, Jon Snow, Tyrion or Bran? You just know these guys will pull through and go on to do the most boring, heroic stuff you can imagine, probably in that huge 'final battle' that everyone keeps pining for, that shouldn't logically happen because GoT isn't (or at least didn't used to be) Lord of the Rings.

    I could be wrong about all of this and the show could surprise me, but I'm not holding my breath.    … Expand
  21. Nydhogg
    May 1, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Having read the books, it's impossible not to be disappointed, the show has been great for the first 4 seasons, some times even improved on some of the material the books gave us, but last season was a complete mess and this episode makes me believe season 6 won't be much better. The 1st episode was, for the most of it, really slow, the complete destruction of the Dorne plotline and the subversion of its characters was outrageous, Daenerys' destiny is much different from what the 5th book makes us believe will be. There she shows up in front of the Dothrakis as a champion, here she's nothing but a slave... the quantity of stuff they just outright removed from the books is appalling.
    The only reason I won't give a 0 to this episode is the final scene. Even though it's not present in the books, nothing there contradicts its possibility and it was a nice tweak, although I thin there was no necessity for the character to get fully undressed in the cold winter of the wall just for the sake of shocking the audience...
    Waiting to see how the show will approach the iron islands and old town plotline, but I'll keep my hopes low.    … Expand
  22. pete1977
    Sep 15, 2016
    3
    I really don't know what the big fuss is with The Games Of Thrones. It is a very average show with a couple of exciting moments in the whole series after 6 seasons. Still got nothing on Breaking Bad. That was a roller coaster of a show, unlike this show. Lots of boring episodes throughout 6 seasons. Thank god there is only ten episodes per season.
  23. Exclusif
    May 16, 2016
    0
    Man I was looking forward to season 6, but... it's just absolute garbage. I could barely finish episode 4. Everything is 3 leagues below previous seasons, yes even the acting is less inspired. Seriously, what is going on here?
  24. FBauer
    Sep 27, 2016
    0
    I'm so angry about season six and I don't know where to start to write down all the things which went wrong, but a lot of other people here described it very well in detail...to sum it up: the show-runners just ruined it ! That's why I give it a zero, because 8,4 as an overall score is far to good for this crap, it should be more like 3 or 4 points. Just one note: Why has every one who isI'm so angry about season six and I don't know where to start to write down all the things which went wrong, but a lot of other people here described it very well in detail...to sum it up: the show-runners just ruined it ! That's why I give it a zero, because 8,4 as an overall score is far to good for this crap, it should be more like 3 or 4 points. Just one note: Why has every one who is a dwarf or lost his penis to be reminded of it at least two times in each episode ?… Expand
  25. Synycom
    Jan 7, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. .Seriously disappointed. Have watched the whole 6th series. Slow, disjointed, with some characters seemingly have the ability to teleport from one part of the world to another. Some of the visual scenes were stunning as usual and the acting held up well against a poorish script. The biggest downer given the end of series 5 and the threat of the white walkers and the epic impact they were about to have on the 7 kingdoms is completely forgotten for the first 8 episodes and remains so with only the odd scene and passing reference, The Queen of Dragons we thought had an invincible army but somehow this seems to have fallen apart faster than the average British government. Overall you cannot watch this without knowing the makers are milking the franchise by 80% of air time given to minor side plots, minor characters and scenes that don't add anything to the backbone of the plot and in several cases don't fit or have any useful purpose to this series or presumably the next.… Expand

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73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Time
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Apr 26, 2016
    70
    In short, it was an episode of Game of Thrones, a show with little interest in or aptitude for self-editing. The aspects that worked were no better-written or more artfully shot than those that fell slightly flat; they simply had a sense of urgency that was, even by the standards of a show whose premieres are slow going, was absent elsewhere.
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  2. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Apr 25, 2016
    70
    Surprise has its place, and isn't mandatory in a table-setting episode like this, which did its best to catch us up on most of the characters (while skipping over the likes of Littlefinger, Sam, and Hot Pie) and show us where their stories may be headed after all that went down at the end of last season.
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  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Liz Shannon Miller
    Apr 25, 2016
    91
    The bodies still pile up in a sprawling episode full of ongoing storylines, but there's a definite sense that there's hope for some of these hopeless sorts. ... [Arya's] journey, as a young woman in a severely patriarchal society, has always been extremely compelling, but with every season, she gets more agency and strength, and becomes even more captivating.
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