Spoilers for Game of Thrones: Seasons 1-6 follow.
With Season 7 almost here, we're taking another look at the very best Game of Thrones episodes so far.
The series isn't over, of course, so this list will no doubt continue to change as we see the final two seasons play out, but as of right now here are the very best chapters from HBO's adaptation of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series. Filled with maulings, meltings, charrings, beheadings and weddings.
So sit back and get ready to disagree in all caps because dark lists bring dark words.
Here are the ten best episodes of Game of Thrones...
The Lion and the Rose (Season 4)
After four seasons, Game of Thrones finally gave us a wedding reception we could rejoice over. King Joffrey - a complete pain in the ass until the very end - choked to death while engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: Tormenting Tyrion. The young, dim brute died in agony, clutching his throat. George R. R. Martin couldn't have planned it better. Well, he did in more ways than one, we suppose, since he wrote the episode. Yes, the author who'd robbed us of so many heroes finally wiped one of the show's most foul villains off the map. And it was glorious.
And Now His Watch Is Ended (Season 3)
Jaime was forced to wear his severed hand around his neck, Margaery began her manipulation of Joffrey (much to Cersei's displeasure), Theon got tricked by Ramsay into thinking he was escaping, and Lord Commander Mormont of the Night's Watch was killed during a dastardly mutiny at Craster's Keep. All that and Daenerys made off with an army of eight thousand Unsullied soldiers after she turned her dragons loose on the slave masters of Astapor, leaving scorched earth and crackled bodies in her wake. DRACARYS!
The Mountain and the Viper (Season 4)
In "The Mountain and the Viper," Daenerys discovered Jorah's betrayal and banished him while a newly confident Sansa donned a striking new black dress. But what everyone remembers the most is the final, jaw-dropping -- and head-popping -- 10 minutes featuring the fight between Oberyn Martell and Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane. A fight that almost went the way many viewers hoped until the last few seconds when Oberyn got caught monologuing and paid the painful price. Proof that George R. R. Martin probably would have had Count Rugen kill Inigo Montoya had he written The Princess Bride.
Battle of the Bastards (Season 6)
Containing the most sweeping, expansive and impressive battles sequences the show's ever done -- AND some of the best CGI work involving dragons mercilessly setting enemy ships ablaze -- "Battle of the Bastards" saw Jon Snow and his undersized army of loyalists scrape and claw to retake Winterfell. It was a massive, emotional fight to the finish as Sansa saved the day with Littlefinger's smarmy aid and then fed Ramsay to his own starving mutts. And with both Dany and Jon overcoming their foul enemies (one more easily than the other, of course), this chapter gave us perhaps the most decisive win for GoT's heroes to date.
The Children (Season 4)
Stannis and his army arrived at the Wall to save Jon Snow and the Night's Watch, Daenerys chained up her dragons, and Tyrion, set free by Jaime, took a detour during his escape to grimly murder both Tywin and Shae (who he discovered in his Tywin's bed). But it was Brienne's ear-biting battle with The Hound that helped make the Season 4 finale, "The Children," excel. That and Arya's cold, silent refusal to put The Hound out of his misery.
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