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Lena Headey revealed a new disappointment with Game of thrones after revealing a crucial scene of Cersei Lannister was scrapped the penultimate season of the series.
A few days after Headey said he was "ravaged", his character had no end so memorable, the British star – appeared on the HBO since its premiere in 2011 – unveiled the details of a film scene that would have cleared up a certain mystery.
The mystery in question surrounded Cersei's pregnancy. During season seven, the fans discovered that the queen was pregnant – but many wondered if she was telling the truth or if she was making the pregnancy to manipulate her brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to keep it up to date. King's Landing.
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In the eighth and final season, Cersei's pregnancy was hardly mentioned except for a moment in which she suggested that her unborn baby belonged to Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek).
1/73 73. Season seven, episode five: Eastwatch
There must be a loser. "Eastwatch" throws one of the most important pieces of news in the series, Jon's true lineage, as well as many beautiful meetings. This is the best example of the series' rush in recent years, with unpredictability giving way to a conventional plot.
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2/73 72. Season four, episode three: Breaker of Chains
Jaime seems to be violating Cersei next to Joffrey's corpse. The scene is confusing, unpleasant and different from books in a confusing and useless way.
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3/73 71. Season Five, Episode Six: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
The sand snakes are just unbearably naff and it's one of their worst.
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4/73 70. Season Four, Episode Four: Oath Guard
At Craster's Keep, a lot of rapes and killings of children. Unpleasant.
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5/73 69. Season one, episode two: The Kingsroad
Unlike the precipitous plot of recent seasons, it is a quiet discussion of the M1.
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6/73 68. Season eight, episode four: The last of the Starks
After the Battle of Winterfell, Benioff and Weiss showed that they had lost their grip, with an incoherent episode that betrayed several key characters in the name of an obvious conspiracy. A cup of Starbucks left on a party table tells us everything we needed to know about a series that was abandoned.
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7/73 67. Season two, episode eight: Prince of Winterfell
Arya and Jaqen H'ghar have good things, but it's mostly a placeholder when they organized the Battle of Blackwater.
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8/73 66. Season Three, Episode 10: Mysha
The farewells of Jon Snow and Ygritte at the peak of season 3 should have been much sadder.
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9/73 65. Season five, episode two: The house of blacks and whites
A lot of setting up. Jaime and Bronn plan to go to Dorne, Arya arrives at Braavos.
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10/73 64. Season Seven, Episode Six: Beyond the Wall
It should have been one of the big battles: ice zombies plus dragons plus Jon Snow's expedition. It sounded spectacular, but everyone was worried about the teleportation of crows and the speed of dragons.
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11/73 63. Season six, episode eight: No One
Some absolutely horrible jokes between Gray Worm and Missandei.
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12/73 62. Season two, episode seven: A man without honor
Pyat Pree kills the 13 at Qarth. Tywin talks to Arya about the inheritance.
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13/73 61. Season six, first episode: The red woman
Melisandre is a very, very old woman.
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14/73 60. Season Two, Episode Two: The Night Lands
Tyrion talks a lot to King's Landing but not much else.
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15/73 59. Season Six, Episode Seven: The Broken Man
The Hound meets Ian McShane. That's about all in an episode of preparations.
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16/73 58. Season Three, Episode 1: Valar Dohaeris
A clbadic opening season that moves from one place to another.
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17/73 57. Season Two, Episode Four: Garden of Bones
A lot of sadness. Rat and bucket torture in Harrenhal. Robb Stark meets Talisa. Joffrey is cruel to Ros and Daisy.
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18/73 56. Season Five, Episode 1: Upcoming Wars
Mance Rayder refuses to bend his knee, Stannis burns the pyre before Jon pulls him with an arrow. A pretty good death actually.
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19/73 55. Season Five, Episode Five: Kill the Boy
Season five is perhaps the weakest, and this is one of the weakest episodes of it, despite some good actions by Bolton and Stone Men's fatal attack on Tyrion and Jorah Mormont. they crossed Valyria.
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20/73 54. Season Two, Episode 1: The North Remembers
In the first game of season two, we meet Stannis at Dragonstone, then Joffrey orders a huge infanticide. It was vaguely controversial at the time. It feels like there is a life. "Power is power," Cersei told Littlefinger, which was a good thing.
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21/73 53. Season six, episode three: Oathbreaker
Jon Snow, coming back to life, really should not have felt flat. Yet he did it.
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22/73 52. Season one, episode three: Lord Snow
This is understandable since it was necessary to create a whole medieval universe, but 12 main characters are presented. It's too many major characters.
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23/73 51. Season six, epsidoe four: The book from abroad
Jon and Sansa get together, which is cool, Daenerys is still burning other enemies, which is hot, good monologue from High Sparrow to Margaery.
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24/73 50. Season Three, Episode Six: The Rise
Theme of climbing. Thormund climbs the wall; Littlefinger gives his most famous monologue, explaining to Varys that chaos is "a ladder".
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25/73 49. Season five, second episode: The sons of the harpy
Mid-season doldrums, especially in five, when Jaime and Bronn arrive at Dorne.
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26/73 48. Season five, episode seven: The gift
The same thing except that Tyrion meets Daenerys. Everyone gives themselves gifts.
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27/73 47. Season Three, Episode Two: Dark Wings, Dark Words
A slow number at the beginning of the season, although we meet Olenna and Margaery shows how much she will be good at handling the field.
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28/73 46. Season One, Episode Eight: The Pointy End
Until the next series, eight episodes are a little paralyzed by the upcoming denouements. This is true in the first season, as machines crack to set up decapitation.
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29/73 45. Season three, seventh episode: The bear and the first fair
Even thinking back to what happened in this episode, I still can not remember it, aside from the fight with the bear. Oh yes, Mackenzie Crook! I forgot that he was in this program.
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30/73 44. Season Two, Episode Five: The Ghost of Harrenhal
Two good times: Renly is killed by the shadows and Arya meets Jaqen H'ghar.
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31/73 43. Season eight, second episode: "A knight of the seven kingdoms"
Another slow scene for the epic Battle of Winterfell, full of nocturnal antics like the Knight of Brienne by Jamie and the slightly disturbing sight of Arya and Gendry preparing to take it to the hammer and to the clip.
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32/73 42. Season six, second episode: Home
The disappearance of the best boy, Roose Bolton, as well as Balon Greyjoy, both returned to their fate by their families. Melisandre finally uses her anti-death magic on Jon Snow.
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33/73 41. Season four, episode five: first name of his name
One of the benefits of Season 4 was that it was the only time when, even briefly, it seemed like some kind of temporary stability had been achieved. Tommen is king, Sansa has escaped King's Landing, Jon Snow and takes revenge on the mutineers of Craster's Keep.
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34/73 40. Season Two, Episode 10: Valar Morghulis
The White Walkers attack the Night Watch on the fist of the first men is a good laugh, but other than that, there is a lot to go through, after the events of Blackwater in the previous episode, and the finale of season two anticipates some of the rushed feeling that will occur later.
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35/73 39. Season one, episode seven: You win or you die
Our first glimpse of what will become of Cersei, as she surprises Ned Stark after the death of Robert Baratheon in a hunting accident.
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36/73 38. Season seven, first episode: Dragonstone
A great moment Arya, as she erases the rest of the House Frey, but it's especially for a season that counts a lot.
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37/73 37. Season One, Episode Four: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
Ned works as a policeman at Kings Landing to find out what happened to Jon Arryn.
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38/73 36. Season Five, Episode Nine: Dragon Dance
One of the most troubling deaths in Game of Thrones, while Stannis Baratheon burns his girlfriend friend Shireen to appease Melisandra.
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39/73 35. Season seven, second episode: Stormborn
Theon jumps out of the boat after Euron has overtaken Greyjoy's fleet. Nice meeting between Arya and Hot Pie. Tyrion deters Daenerys from cremating King's Landing.
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40/73 34. Season eight, episode 1: Winterfell & # 39;
A slower start to the game than expected for the last season, although some touching reunions took place at Winterfell, including Bran and Jamie who saw each other again.
41/73 33. Season six, episode six: The blood of my blood
Midseason. Cersei sends Jaime to retake Riverrun, while Arya is finally trained to become a murderer. I really can not remember it, to be honest.
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42/73 32. Season One, Episode Five: The Wolf and the Lion
Jaime and Ned argue in the streets of King's Landing in an episode that focuses on skuldugery rather than magic. If you ask me, the skulduggery always takes on magic.
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43/73 31. Season Three, Episode Three: March Against Punishment
The first moment when the trajectory of a character was really reversed. Jaime had not liked Jaime since the beginning, but when his hand was cut, he started to win us back. The Blackfish at Edmure School to shoot fire arrows was another highlight.
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44/73 30. Season Four, Episode 1: Two Swords
The opening of the fourth series presented the charismatic and enigmatic viper of Dorne, one of the few positive points other than the wine to come out of Dorne. Also notable for an excellent scene with Arya and the hound cleaning a hostel.
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45/73 29. Season Two, Episode Three: What's Dead May Never Die
Presents Margaery Tyrell and Brienne of Tarth, two of the best characters, and also sees Theon deciding to betray Robb Stark. What is the family? Who can you trust?
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46/73 28. Season Three, Episode Eight: Second Sounds
Built around the importunate marriage of Sansa and Tyrion, while in the north, we see all the importance of Sam as he draws in reserves of courage to drag in slalom a white walker.
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47/73 27. Season Four, Episode Seven: Mockingbird
The fact that Littlefinger throws Lysa out of Eyrie is probably the most dramatic moment in history, one of his decisive moments of stealing power when he saves Sansa.
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48/73 26. Season One, Episode One: Winter Is Coming
Do you remember an era prior to Game of Thrones? Look again "Winter is coming", marvel at Baby Starks, think about the number of dead characters, think about your own mortality. You are much, much older than at the beginning of Game of Thrones. Your life runs between your fingers.
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49/73 25. Season one, episode six: a gold crown
Another dramatic death that is hard to remember now, when the miserable Viserys had come out of his moron with molten gold.
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50/73 24: Season Eight, Episode Six: The Iron Throne & # 39;
Well, that was it. The grand finale caused a lot of grinding of teeth and hot air, not quite Drogon. In truth, things were linked as best as possible, given how the different pieces had been arranged, even though some of the criticisms were valid. The scenes chosen by the king and the first council were incredibly lame. A number of issues were addressed. Yet what a show.
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51/73 23. Season Two, Episode Six: Old Gods and the New
Theon takes Winterfell. Theon, you say bastard. I hope you are punished for this.
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52/73 22. Season five, third episode: High Sparrow
A key episode of Littlefinger, as he continues to manipulate Sansa, while Jon Snow executes Janos and at King's Landing, the machinations of Cersei are at the height of those of Margaery.
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53/73 21. Season four, second episode: The lion and the rose
Joffrey, scratching his throat, turning purple, dying. Top things.
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54/73 20. Season Four, Episode Six: The Laws of Men and Gods
An excellent episode of the mid-season, built around the trial of Tyrion but with many other things to admire, which alludes to the underlying economies of the Game of Thrones universe. Drogon roasts cattle, while Braavos Iron Bank refuses to bail out Davos and Stannis.
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55/73 19. Season three, episode four: And now his watch is over
The total depravity of Ramsay Bolton is exposed as he makes fun of Theon with a false escape, while Commander Mormont is murdered at Craster's Donjon. But it's all about Daenerys, as she and her companions flare Astapor on the ground.
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56/73 18. Season Seven, Episode Seven: The Dragon and the Wolf
It turns out that Jon Snow is actually the real heir of Seven Kingdoms, the remaining children of the Stark finally join together to kill Littlefinger, certainly in an overworked style, and the White Walkers use their new lizard hair dryer to destroy the wall. There are far too many things happening, especially the strange scene where Jon shows Cighti, but she still sends you to popcorn and encourages, which is more or less the stage where we are with the series whole now.
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57/73 17. Season Three, Episode Five: Embraced by Fire
Especially for the very parodied love cave of Ygritte and Jon, but also for the duel of the Dog with Bendric Dondarrion, who revealed his terror caused by the fire. While nursing his stump in the baths, Jaime tells Brienne the truth about his badbadination of the mad king. Midseason.
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58/73 16. Season Five, Episode 10: The Mercy of the Mother
The end of the fifth series is the nicest we've ever seen, as she completes her atonement pardon in the streets of King's Landing, cuts her hair and undresses. Strategically, Cersei, humiliating, turns out not to be the master-shot that the High-Sparrow thought was.
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59/73 15. Season Seven, Episode Four: The Spoils of War
Spoil a lot. Arya returns to Winterfell and sees Sansa, then fights for a brief duel with Brienne who shows how much she has learned. However, this is not the case with one of the best shots in the series: Daenerys riding Drogon over a full-load Dothraki horde before cremating Lannister's lines.
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60/73 14. Season One, Episode 10: Fire and Blood
We were promised dragons, and here they are, mingling at the top of the naked Daenerys. And one thing we know about baby dragons is that they have to grow up. This is the Game of Thrones version of Chekhov's rule on firearms. You will continue to watch until they blaze something up.
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61/73 13. Season Five, Episode Eight: Hardhome
While the big battles unfold, the clash between Night's Watch and Wildlings and Hardhome's wights is not quite comparable to the others, but it's still cold, especially when Jon realizes his sword is working. against the snowmen. If that was not enough, Sansa also learned that her family may be alive.
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62/73 12. Season four, episode nine: The observers on the wall
The big room between the night watch and the savages. Not quite up to Blackwater, despite the convening of his battle specialist, Neil Marshall, to lead.
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63/73 11. Season seven, third episode: The Queen's Justice
There is too much stuff in this episode, which could have been spread over several hours, but it's still wonderful. Jon meets Daenerys for the first time, Sam heals Jorah in grayscale, Cersei erases the Tyrells. Best of all is Diana Rigg, seated at a table in her tower, bowing out of what may be Thrones' best overall performance.
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64/73 10. Season eight, episode five
One of the most controversial episodes, when Dany's frustrations turned into a holocaust at King's Landing. Whatever you think of the rhythm or fidelity of the plot to the characters, it was quite a spectacle and killed several key characters in a dramatic style.
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65/73 9. Season six, episode five: The door
Poor old Hodor. The death that nobody wanted, as a wonderful character, played with so much sympathy by Kristian Nairn, is finally returned to him.
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66/73 8. Season Four, Episode Eight: The Mountain and the Viper
There are other things going on: Littlefinger takes the Vale and the Boltons up in Winterfell, but the episode is especially memorable for the central duel, while Oberyn asks justice on behalf of the man who murdered so many of his loved ones, and for an image above all else. armored fingers of the mountain crushing Oberyn's skull like a grapefruit.
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67/73 7. Season one, episode nine: Baelor
Poor old Ned Stark. The death they said could never happen! Clearly, they had not watched enough of Sean Bean's films.
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68/73 6. Season eight, episode three: The long night
After two episodes of staging, The Long Night finally holds the promise of season eight, with 90 minutes of blood and wonderful fire at Winterfell. The hordes of King Night meet the badembled ranks of Westeros, Wildlings, Dothraki and Unsullied. Defenders lose and lose and lose until they finally win, but not before some spectacular deaths. While it lacks some of the strategic nuances of other battles, it compensates for breathtaking action sequences and computer-generated images, particularly on dragons, who fight over the plain.
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69/73 5. Season Six, Episode 10: The Winds of Winter
The winter has arrived. It opens with the peak Cersei, while it eliminates all its enemies in one and the same fire. Arya kills Walder Frey. Jon's theory is confirmed. Tommen goes out the window.
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70/73 4. Season Three, Episode Nine: Rains of Castemere
The Lannisters salute you. Some would have this number one, and one could easily argue the case. The red marriage was the scene that pushed Game of Thrones out of its reputation and integrate into popular culture in a broad sense, the point where it was no longer avoidable. Fury, anguish, love, surprise, pity, hate: everything is there. The look that Roose Bolton gives Catelyn Stark when she reveals that the coat of mail that he wears for dinner might be my only favorite moment of any program.
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71/73 3. Season Six, Episode Nine: The Battle of the Bastards
Anyone who has seen Apocalypto, Mel Gibson's Mayan drama, knows that running in a straight line, far from arrows, rarely works. So it was a good thing for Rickon, who organized one of the big battles, not only on TV but also in any type of movie. Where battles had been bothered by the budget in previous seasons, especially when Tyrion was knocked out and missed, it was the belt and shoulder straps. She was brilliantly led, with aerial shots, as well as close-ups facing the mud to convey all the heartbreaking horror of the battle and the dark relief of victory.
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72/73 2. Season Four, Episode 10: The Children
I think the fourth season is the best in all respects, the culmination of the character's development before starting to be forced by the plots of the plot in the next series. Brienne's bloody fight with the Dog leaves him bloody and bloody as Arya heads for Braavos. Tywin finally found his place, a crossbow in the toilet, administered by his son, Tyrion, who then fled. And Stannis's cavalry arrives to save Jon and defeat Mance Rayder and the wildlings, after being persuaded by Davos.
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73/73 1. Season two, episode nine: Blackwater
It's a purely personal point of view, but if Ned Stark's death was the moment you sat down and paid attention, Blackwater was where you started cheering on TV. The magnitude, the splendor, the depth of character of the big events: they felt all new, somehow. It was perhaps the last moment when we were equally rooted on both sides, with the exception of one side being consumed in a strange green glow. Wildfire does not care who your favorite character is.
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1/73 73. Season seven, episode five: Eastwatch
There must be a loser. "Eastwatch" throws one of the most important pieces of news in the series, Jon's true lineage, as well as many beautiful meetings. This is the best example of the series' rush in recent years, with unpredictability giving way to a conventional plot.
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2/73 72. Season four, episode three: Breaker of Chains
Jaime seems to be violating Cersei next to Joffrey's corpse. The scene is confusing, unpleasant and different from books in a confusing and useless way.
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3/73 71. Season Five, Episode Six: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
The sand snakes are just unbearably naff and it's one of their worst.
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4/73 70. Season Four, Episode Four: Oath Guard
At Craster's Keep, a lot of rapes and killings of children. Unpleasant.
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5/73 69. Season one, episode two: The Kingsroad
Unlike the precipitous plot of recent seasons, it is a quiet discussion of the M1.
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6/73 68. Season eight, episode four: The last of the Starks
After the Battle of Winterfell, Benioff and Weiss showed that they had lost their grip, with an incoherent episode that betrayed several key characters in the name of an obvious conspiracy. A cup of Starbucks left on a party table tells us everything we needed to know about a series that was abandoned.
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7/73 67. Season two, episode eight: Prince of Winterfell
Arya and Jaqen H'ghar have good things, but it's mostly a placeholder when they organized the Battle of Blackwater.
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8/73 66. Season Three, Episode 10: Mysha
The farewells of Jon Snow and Ygritte at the peak of season 3 should have been much sadder.
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9/73 65. Season five, episode two: The house of blacks and whites
A lot of setting up. Jaime and Bronn plan to go to Dorne, Arya arrives at Braavos.
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10/73 64. Season Seven, Episode Six: Beyond the Wall
It should have been one of the big battles: ice zombies plus dragons plus Jon Snow's expedition. It sounded spectacular, but everyone was worried about the teleportation of crows and the speed of dragons.
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11/73 63. Season six, episode eight: No One
Some absolutely horrible jokes between Gray Worm and Missandei.
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12/73 62. Season two, episode seven: A man without honor
Pyat Pree kills the 13 at Qarth. Tywin talks to Arya about the inheritance.
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13/73 61. Season six, first episode: The red woman
Melisandre is a very, very old woman.
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14/73 60. Season Two, Episode Two: The Night Lands
Tyrion talks a lot to King's Landing but not much else.
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15/73 59. Season Six, Episode Seven: The Broken Man
The Hound meets Ian McShane. That's about all in an episode of preparations.
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16/73 58. Season Three, Episode 1: Valar Dohaeris
A clbadic opening season that moves from one place to another.
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17/73 57. Season Two, Episode Four: Garden of Bones
A lot of sadness. Rat and bucket torture in Harrenhal. Robb Stark meets Talisa. Joffrey is cruel to Ros and Daisy.
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18/73 56. Season Five, Episode 1: Upcoming Wars
Mance Rayder refuses to bend his knee, Stannis burns the pyre before Jon pulls him with an arrow. A pretty good death actually.
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19/73 55. Season Five, Episode Five: Kill the Boy
Season five is perhaps the weakest, and this is one of the weakest episodes of it, despite some good actions by Bolton and Stone Men's fatal attack on Tyrion and Jorah Mormont. they crossed Valyria.
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20/73 54. Season Two, Episode 1: The North Remembers
In the first game of season two, we meet Stannis at Dragonstone, then Joffrey orders a huge infanticide. It was vaguely controversial at the time. It feels like there is a life. "Power is power," Cersei told Littlefinger, which was a good thing.
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21/73 53. Season six, episode three: Oathbreaker
Jon Snow, coming back to life, really should not have felt flat. Yet he did it.
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22/73 52. Season one, episode three: Lord Snow
This is understandable since it was necessary to create a whole medieval universe, but 12 main characters are presented. It's too many major characters.
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23/73 51. Season six, epsidoe four: The book from abroad
Jon and Sansa get together, which is cool, Daenerys is still burning other enemies, which is hot, good monologue from High Sparrow to Margaery.
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24/73 50. Season Three, Episode Six: The Rise
Theme of climbing. Thormund climbs the wall; Littlefinger gives his most famous monologue, explaining to Varys that chaos is "a ladder".
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25/73 49. Season five, second episode: The sons of the harpy
Mid-season doldrums, especially in five, when Jaime and Bronn arrive at Dorne.
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26/73 48. Season five, episode seven: The gift
The same thing except that Tyrion meets Daenerys. Everyone gives themselves gifts.
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27/73 47. Season Three, Episode Two: Dark Wings, Dark Words
A slow number at the beginning of the season, although we meet Olenna and Margaery shows how much she will be good at handling the field.
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28/73 46. Season One, Episode Eight: The Pointy End
Until the next series, eight episodes are a little paralyzed by the upcoming denouements. This is true in the first season, as machines crack to set up decapitation.
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29/73 45. Season three, seventh episode: The bear and the first fair
Even thinking back to what happened in this episode, I still can not remember it, aside from the fight with the bear. Oh yes, Mackenzie Crook! I forgot that he was in this program.
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30/73 44. Season Two, Episode Five: The Ghost of Harrenhal
Two good times: Renly is killed by the shadows and Arya meets Jaqen H'ghar.
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31/73 43. Season eight, second episode: "A knight of the seven kingdoms"
Another slow scene for the epic Battle of Winterfell, full of nocturnal antics like the Knight of Brienne by Jamie and the slightly disturbing sight of Arya and Gendry preparing to take it to the hammer and to the clip.
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32/73 42. Season six, second episode: Home
The disappearance of the best boy, Roose Bolton, as well as Balon Greyjoy, both returned to their fate by their families. Melisandre finally uses her anti-death magic on Jon Snow.
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33/73 41. Season four, episode five: first name of his name
One of the benefits of Season 4 was that it was the only time when, even briefly, it seemed like some kind of temporary stability had been achieved. Tommen is king, Sansa has escaped King's Landing, Jon Snow and takes revenge on the mutineers of Craster's Keep.
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34/73 40. Season Two, Episode 10: Valar Morghulis
The White Walkers attack the Night Watch on the fist of the first men is a good laugh, but other than that, there is a lot to go through, after the events of Blackwater in the previous episode, and the finale of season two anticipates some of the rushed feeling that will occur later.
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35/73 39. Season one, episode seven: You win or you die
Our first glimpse of what will become of Cersei, as she surprises Ned Stark after the death of Robert Baratheon in a hunting accident.
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36/73 38. Season seven, first episode: Dragonstone
A great moment Arya, as she erases the rest of the House Frey, but it's especially for a season that counts a lot.
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37/73 37. Season One, Episode Four: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
Ned works as a policeman at Kings Landing to find out what happened to Jon Arryn.
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38/73 36. Season Five, Episode Nine: Dragon Dance
One of the most troubling deaths in Game of Thrones, while Stannis Baratheon burns his girlfriend friend Shireen to appease Melisandra.
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39/73 35. Saison sept, deuxième épisode: Stormborn
Theon saute du bateau après qu'Euron ait dépbadé la flotte de Greyjoy. Belle réunion entre Arya et Hot Pie. Tyrion dissuade Daenerys d’incinérer King’s Landing.
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40/73 34. Saison huit, épisode 1: 'Winterfell'
Un début de match plus lent que prévu pour la dernière saison, même si quelques retrouvailles émouvantes ont eu lieu à Winterfell, notamment Bran et Jamie qui se sont revus.
41/73 33. Saison six, épisode six: Le sang de mon sang
Mi-saison. Cersei envoie Jaime pour reprendre Riverrun, alors qu'Arya est finalement formée pour devenir une badbadine. Je ne peux vraiment pas m'en souvenir, pour être honnête.
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42/73 32. Saison un, épisode cinq: Le loup et le lion
Jaime et Ned se disputent dans les rues de King’s Landing dans un épisode qui met l’accent sur la skuldugery plutôt que sur la magie. Si vous me le demandez, le skulduggery l'emporte toujours sur la magie.
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43/73 31. Saison trois, épisode trois: Marche contre le châtiment
Le premier moment où la trajectoire d’un personnage était vraiment inversée. Jaime n’avait pas aimé Jaime depuis le début, mais quand sa main a été coupée, il a commencé à nous reconquérir. Le Blackfish à l'école Edmure à tirer des flèches de feu était un autre point fort.
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44/73 30. Saison quatre, épisode 1: Deux épées
L’ouverture de la quatrième série a présenté la vipère charismatique et énigmatique de Dorne, l’un des rares points positifs autre que le vin à sortir de Dorne. Également remarquable pour une excellente scène avec Arya et le chien de chbade nettoyant une auberge.
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45/73 29. Saison deux, épisode trois: Ce qui est mort peut ne jamais mourir
Présente Margaery Tyrell et Brienne of Tarth, deux des meilleurs personnages, et voit également Theon décider de trahir Robb Stark. Qu'est ce que la famille? À qui peux-tu faire confiance?
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46/73 28. Saison trois, épisode huit: Second Sons
Construit autour du mariage importun de Sansa et Tyrion, tandis que dans le nord, on voit toute l’importance de Sam alors qu’il dessine dans les réserves de courage pour traîner en slalom un marcheur blanc.
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47/73 27. Saison quatre, épisode sept: Mockingbird
Le fait que Littlefinger jette Lysa hors de l’Eyrie est probablement le moment le plus dramatique de l’histoire, un de ses moments décisifs de vol de pouvoir lorsqu’il sauve Sansa.
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48/73 26. Saison un, épisode un: l'hiver arrive
Vous souvenez-vous d'une époque antérieure à Game of Thrones? Regardez à nouveau «L’hiver arrive», émerveillez-vous devant le bébé Starks, réfléchissez au nombre de personnages morts, réfléchissez à votre propre mortalité. Vous êtes beaucoup, beaucoup plus âgé qu'au début de Game of Thrones. Votre vie court entre vos doigts.
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49/73 25. Saison un, épisode six: une couronne d'or
Une autre mort dramatique dont il est difficile de se souvenir à présent, alors que le misérable Viserys était sorti de son crétin avec de l’or en fusion.
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50/73 24: Saison huit, épisode six: 'Le trône de fer'
Eh bien, c'était ça. La grande finale a provoqué beaucoup de grincements de dents et d’air chaud, pas tout à fait de Drogon. En vérité, les choses étaient liées du mieux possible, compte tenu de la manière dont les différentes pièces avaient été arrangées, même si certaines des critiques étaient valables. Les scènes choisies par le roi et le premier conseil étaient incroyablement boiteuses. Un certain nombre de questions ont été abordées. Pourtant, quel spectacle.
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51/73 23. Saison deux, épisode six: Old Gods and the New
Theon prend Winterfell. Theon, vous dites bâtard. J'espère que vous êtes punis pour cela.
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52/73 22. Saison cinq, troisième épisode: High Sparrow
Un épisode clé de Littlefinger, alors qu’il continue à manipuler Sansa, tandis que Jon Snow exécute Janos et, à King’s Landing, les machinations de Cersei sont à la hauteur de celles de Margaery.
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53/73 21. Saison quatre, deuxième épisode: Le lion et la rose
Joffrey, se grattant la gorge, virant au violet, mourant. Top choses.
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54/73 20. Saison quatre, épisode six: Les lois des hommes et des dieux
Un excellent épisode de la mi-saison, construit autour du procès de Tyrion mais avec plein d’autres choses à admirer, qui fait allusion aux économies sous-jacentes de l’univers de Game of Thrones. Drogon fait griller du bétail, tandis que la Banque de fer de Braavos refuse de renflouer Davos et Stannis.
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55/73 19. Saison trois, épisode quatre: Et maintenant sa montre est finie
La dépravation totale de Ramsay Bolton est mise à nu alors qu'il se moque de Theon avec une fausse évasion, tandis que le commandant Mormont est badbadiné à Craster’s Donjon. Mais c’est vraiment tout au sujet de Daenerys, alors qu’elle et ses compagnons font flamber Astapor au sol.
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56/73 18. Saison sept, épisode sept: Le dragon et le loup
It turns out Jon Snow is actually the true heir to the Seven Kingdoms, the remaining Stark children finally team up to kill Littlefinger, admittedly in overwrought style, and the White Walkers use their new lizard hairdryer to destroy the wall. There is far too much going on, especially the odd scene where Jon shows Cersei the wight, but nevertheless it sends you reaching for the popcorn and cheering along, which is more or less where we are at with the whole series by now.
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57/73 17. Season three, episode five: Kissed by Fire
Most notable for Ygritte and Jon’s much-parodied love grotto scene, but also for the Hound’s duel with Bendric Dondarrion, which revealed his terror of fire. Nursing his stump in the baths, Jaime tells Brienne the truth about his badbadination of the Mad King. Mid-seasoner.
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58/73 16. Season five, episode 10: Mother’s Mercy
The denouement of the fifth series is the most sympathetic we ever see Cersei, as she completes her walk of atonement through the streets of King’s Landing, her hair cut and her clothes stripped. Strategically, humiliating Cersei proves not to be the masterstroke the High Sparrow thought it would be.
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59/73 15. Season seven, episode four: The Spoils of War
Spoils aplenty. Arya returns to Winterfell and sees Sansa, then fights a brief duel with Brienne that shows just how much she’s learnt. It’s nothing on one of the great shots of the whole series, however: Daenerys riding Drogon above a Dothraki horde in full charge before incinerating the Lannister lines.
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60/73 14. Season one, episode 10: Fire and Blood
We were promised dragons, and here they are, mewing atop the naked Daenerys. And one thing we know about baby dragons is they must grow up. This is Game of Thrones’ version of Chekhov’s rule about guns. You’ll keep watching until they torch something.
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61/73 13. Season five, episode eight: Hardhome
As the big battles go, the showdown between the Night’s Watch and wildlings and the wights at Hardhome doesn’t quite match some of the others, but it is still dead cool, especially when Jon realises his sword works against the snowmen. If that wasn’t enough, Sansa also learnt that her family might be alive.
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62/73 12. Season four, episode nine: The Watchers on the Wall
The big set-piece between the Night’s Watch and the wildlings. Not quite up to Blackwater’s standards, despite its battle specialist Neil Marshall being summonsed back to direct.
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63/73 11. Season seven, episode three: The Queen’s Justice
There is too much crammed into this episode, which could have been spread over several hours, but it’s wonderful stuff all the same. Jon meets Daenerys for the first time, Sam cures Jorah of greyscale, Cersei obliterates the Tyrells. Best of all is Diana Rigg, at a table in her tower, bowing out from what is perhaps Thrones’ best overall performance.
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64/73 10. Season eight, episode five
One of the most divisive episodes, as Dany’s frustrations spilled over into a holocaust in King’s Landing. Whatever you thought of the pacing, or the plot’s fidelity to the characters, it was quite a spectacle, and killed off several key figures in dramatic style.
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65/73 9. Season six, episode five: The Door
Poor old Hodor. The death nobody wanted, as a wonderful character, played so sympathetically by Kristian Nairn, is finally given his due.
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66/73 8. Season four, episode eight: The Mountain and the Viper
Other things happen: Littlefinger takes over the Vale, and the Boltons move into Winterfell, but the episode is mainly memorable for the central duel, as Oberyn seeks justice from the man who murdered so many of his relatives, and for one image above all, of the Mountain’s armoured fingers crushing Oberyn’s skull like a grapefruit.
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67/73 7. Season one, episode nine: Baelor
Poor old Ned Stark. The death they said could never happen! Clearly they had not watched enough Sean Bean films.
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68/73 6. Season eight, episode three: The Long Night
After two scene-setting episodes, The Long Night finally delivers on the promise of season eight, with 90 minutes of marvellous blood and fire at Winterfell. The Night King’s hordes meet the badembled ranks of Westeros, wildlings, Dothraki and Unsullied. The defenders lose and lose and lose until they finally win, although not before a few spectacular deaths. If it lacks some of the strategic nuance of other battles, it compensates with stunning action sequences and CGI, especially on the dragons, who dogfight high above the plain.
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69/73 5. Season six, episode 10: The Winds of Winter
Winter has come. It opens with peak Cersei, as she eliminates all her remaining enemies in one enormous blaze. Arya kills Walder Frey. The Jon Theory is confirmed. Tommen walks out of the window.
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70/73 4. Season three, episode nine: Rains of Castemere
The Lannisters send their regards. Some would have this number one, and one could easily make the case. The Red Wedding was the scene that broke Game of Thrones out of its fandom and into broader popular culture, the point where it was no longer avoidable. Fury, anguish, love, surprise, pity, hate: it’s all here. The look Roose Bolton gives Catelyn Stark when she reveals the chainmail he is wearing to dinner might be my single favourite moment of the whole programme.
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71/73 3. Season six, episode nine: Battle of the Bastards
Anyone who has seen Mel Gibson’s Mayan drama Apocalypto knows that running in a straight line away from arrows rarely works. So it proved for Rickon, setting up one of the great battles not only on TV but on any kind of film. Where in previous seasons battles had occasionally felt hampered by budget, most egregiously when Tyrion was knocked out and missed the whole thing, this was the full belt and braces. It was brilliantly directed, with aerial shots, as well as face-in-the-mud close-ups to convey the full grinding horror of the battle, and the grim relief of victory.
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72/73 2. Season four, episode 10: The Children
The fourth season is the best all-round, I think, the high-point of character development before it started to be forced by the machinations of the plot in the later series. Brienne’s bloody brawl with the Hound leaves him bleeding and broken, as Arya heads off to Braavos. Tywin finally gets his comeuppance, a crossbow bolt on the loo, administered by his son, Tyrion, who then flees. And Stannis’s cavalry arrives to save Jon and defeat Mance Rayder and the wildlings in a pincer movement, having been persuaded by Davos.
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73/73 1. Season two, episode nine: Blackwater
This is purely a personal view, but if Ned Stark’s death was the moment you sat up and paid attention, Blackwater was the where you started cheering at the TV. The scale, the splendour, the depth of character brought to bear on grand events: they all felt new, somehow. This might have been the last moment where we were equally rooting for both sides, except for one side to be consumed in an eerie green glow. Wildfire doesn’t care who your favourite character is.
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After failing to be cleared up ahead of her death in the penultimate episode, fans were left scratching their heads wondering what the truth really was.
Headey shed some light on the storyline at ComicCon in Germany, revealing that an important moment in Cersei’s storyline would have cleared up that particular question.
“We shot a scene that never made it into season seven, which was where I lose the baby,” she said. “It was a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei, and it never made it in, and I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would have served her differently.”
1/35 Cersei Lannister
In Cersei, Game of Thrones has found somebody whose appearance on screen makes even the most relaxed viewer nervous. She's that terrifying type of villain who endangers the safety of anyone by merely being in the same scene – something a lot of film and TV shows shoot for with their villains, but struggle to achieve.
HBO
2/35 Jim Fenner
Despite being on the other side of the bars in Larkhall women's prison, Bad Girls' officer Jim Fenner was just as villainous as its inmates. His misdeeds led to his murder in the ITV drama's seventh series.
Warner Bros Television
3/35 Gaius Baltar
The debate over whether or not Battlestar Galactica's Gaius Baltar is actually a villain rages on. But the fact that he sells out humanity to the cybernetic creations they're at war with throughout the show's four seasons earns him a place on this list.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
4/35 Gustavo Fring
Breaking Bad is a show with many selling points, but sitting at the top of the heap is Giancarlo Esposito's performance as Gus Fring, the pleasant fast-food restaurant owner who, behind closed doors, is a fearsome drug kingpin not to be messed with.
Sony Pictures Television
5/35 Gyp Rosetti
Prohibition gangster Gyp Rosetti came into Boardwalk Empire like a wrecking ball. Cannavale's performance as the maniacal self-asphyxiating character intent on destroying the world of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) won Cannavale a well-deserved Emmy.
HBO
6/35 Doug Judy
A good villain returning after an absence can be an exciting moment in a television show, but it's certainly rare for the lead hero to be as excited as the viewer. Well, not when that show is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Craig Robinson plays the affable "Pontiac Killer" Doug Judy whose elusive criminal skills leave Andy Samberg's cop Jake Peralta in awe every time he guest stars. Not all villains come in evil forms.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
7/35 The Gentlemen
Camden Toy, Don W Lewis, Charlie Brumbly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fourth season episode "Hush" is considered by many to be one of the show's best, and it's no doubt partly thanks to the malevolent Gentlemen. Inspired by Nosferatu, Hellraiser's Pinhead and Mr Burns, the creatures would cut out people's hearts, a smile etched on their face the entire time. Chilling.
20th Television
8/35 Richard Hillman
Coronation Street villain Richard Hillman had many faults (arson, murder, etc) but it was abducting his step-family and driving them into a cbad that truly cemented him as one of soap's most memorable baddies.
ITV Studios
9/35 JR Ewing
For 12 years, scheming Dallas character JR Ewing lied and cheated his way through the show so much that by the time he was gunned down – as part of the renowned "Who shot JR?" storyline – everyone was a suspect.
Warner Bros.
10/35 Al Swearengen
Al Swearengen was Deadwood's beating heart, a character whose dealings are so murky it's a wonder you actually found yourself want to to catch up with him in every new episode.
HBO
11/35 The Demon Headmaster
Despite being on screen for just three years, the Demon Headmaster – a disciplinarian who attempts to use hypnosis to control the children in his school – has wedged his way into the history books as one of children television's most chilling villains of all time.
BBC
12/35 Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell – also known as The Trinity Killer – was a key part of why the fourth season of Dexter was its greatest. Though he was a loving family man by day, Mitchell's murderous ways would come to the fore at night and an Emmy-winning Lithgow balanced that tightrope to disturbing degrees. His ultimate clash with Dexter led to one of the show's most heartbreaking climaxes.
Showtime
13/35 The Daleks
As one of Doctor Who's longest-running villains, the Daleks – a race of emotionless machines bent on universal conquest and domination – are beloved by pretty much everyone thanks to their spine-tingling wail: "Exterminate!" Whenever they return to the BBC show, it becomes headline-worthy news.
BBC
14/35 Trevor Morgan
Perhaps of all the villainous characters EastEnders has had over the years, Trevor is an unexpected choice, but none came more malevolent. His storyline of domestic abuse against wife Little Mo (Kacey Ainsworth) was heralded as one of the soap's most accurately depicted, and the country wasn't just celebrating the arrival of 2002 when she beat him with an iron in a special New Year's Eve episode in 2001. So successful was actor Alex Ferns's depiction of Trevor that he received death threats and had to travel the London underground in disguise.
BBC
15/35 VM Varga
Thewlis was rightly Emmy-nominated for his role as the very British VM Varga in the third season of Fargo, a cunning and manipulative mastermind who has a knack for leaving destruction in his wake without ever getting his hands too dirty. Impressive.
20th Television
16/35 Godmother
It's testament to Olivia Colman's acting ability – and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's writing – that someone so likeable can play someone enough so appalling, but her role as Fleabag's sneering, judgemental and domineering Godmother in the series is one of comedy's most detestable creations in quite some time.
BBC
17/35 Mr Bronson
Mr Bronson was every Grange Hill viewer's worst nightmare, arriving as part of the eponymous school's merging with another in 1985 eight years after the show first began. Bronson became a fan favourite and, despite leaving in 1987, remained a legend of the show right up until it ended in 2008.
BBC
18/35 Aunt Lydia
Further proving that Ann Dowd's niche is playing villains is her role of Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale. As the God-fearing matriarch who polices the fertile “handmaids” who bear children for the brutal theocrats of a government called Gilead, she is all the more unnerving for occasionally showing the tiniest glimmer of humanity.
Hulu
19/35 Hannibal Lecter
Taking on a role made famous by acting heavyweights Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins is no mean feat, but it's one that Mads Mikkelsen feasted upon with relish. As the Dr Hannibal Lecter in the short-lived TV series, he was able to, er, flesh out the role in a way that the aforementioned were unable to do in just four films, respectively.
Sony Pictures Television
20/35 Skeletor
Skeletor's willingness to put up with useless henchmen may have made him less scary than his face would suggest, but he caused enough of a problem for the heroic He-Man to warrant a placement here.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
21/35 Villanelle
Are villains meant to be this likeable? Thanks to Comer's performance as the sprightly badbadin in Killing Eve, she certainly bridges the gap.
IMG
22/35 Patti Levin
The Leftovers may not be a show in which its characters are distinctly good or bad, but the Rapture – an event that saw two per cent of the world's population disappear into thin air – certainly sent some on a darker path than others. None came more ominous than Patti Levin, the leader of a cult who smoke, dress in white and communicate only in writing.
HBO
23/35 Lindsay Denton
Line of Duty wouldn't have gained half as much attention if it wasn't for the critical frenzy badped up by Keeley Hawes for her portrayal of DI Lindsay Denton in the show's second and third outings. She was the perfect emblem of the show's (initial) premise that kept fans guessing whether she was good or bad right until the very end.
BBC
24/35 Benjamin Linus
The writers of Lost were such a fan of Michael Emerson's guest performance in season two that they ensured his character, Benjamin Linus, became the show's central villain right through to his final episode. As the one-time leader of the mysterious Others residing on the island, Ben was a master manipulator who played everyone off of each other and constantly remained five steps in front of the characters – and viewers – in the process.
Disney–ABC Domestic Television
25/35 Alice Morgan
Alice Morgan may have started out as the primary villain in BBC show Luther, but over time, she became the perfect foil – and Hannibal Lecter-style adviser – to Idris Elba's titular detective.
BBC
26/35 Alfie Solomons
Peaky Blinders isn't the same without Alife Solomons. It's Tom Hardy who breathed life into the volatile yet loveable baker who, thanks to the pitch perfect writing from creator Steven Knight, was the television equivalent of a lion waiting to pounce on the BBC drama's characters.
BBC
27/35 Montgomery Burns
Could Mr Burns be the greatest animated villain of all time? Quite possibly. As the wealthiest man in Springfield – loyally backed up by sidekick Smithers – he's also the town's most evil and the source of many of the long-running show's most "excellent" moments.
28/35 Livia Soprano
The Sopranos was a show full of villains, but none came more Machiavellian than Tony's mother, Livia. The first few seasons saw her conspiring with brother-in-law Junior (Dominic Chianese) to bump off her own son. Nihilism at its coldest.
HBO
29/35 Malcolm Tucker
Don't be mistaken – The Thick of It's sweary spin doctor Malcolm Tucker may be one of the funniest characters to ever appear on television, but he's also one of the most awful. The kind of character you're happy to sit back and watch take down others, but would be trembling at the thought of encountering yourself.
BBC
30/35 Maryann Forrester
True Blood was a show that may have outstayed its welcome, but it was never more brilliantly bizarre than in the days of Maryann – an ordinary women until she transformed into a bullheaded Maenad who wanted to turn The fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps into a Dionysus-worshipping bacchbadian wasteland. As you do.
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31/35 Nina Myers
24 featured many notable villains over its 10 seasons, but Nina Myers sits top of the list. Why? Because she was first introduced as Jack Bauer's most trusted colleague at intelligence agency CTU before a huge season one finale twist that saw her unveiled as a corrupt deep-cover spy working for the bad guys.
32/35 Killer BOB
It would be hard for Twin Peaks' nightmarish Killer BOB not to go down in history as one of TV's best villains, considering he's an inter-dimensional entity who possesses humans and commits heinous acts of murder in their name.
33/35 Dick Dastardly
You've got to respect Dick Dastardly. The Wacky Races baddie, alongside his canine pal Muttley, was intent on wreaking havoc upon his fellow racers, despite his ploys always backfiring. He was as resilient as villains come.
34/35 Marlo Stanfield
In The Wire, unpredictability reigned whenever Marlo Stanfield was on screen. The character, introduced in season three, overtook Avon Barksdale as overseer of the Baltimore drug trade, and his quiet intensity made for unbearably tense television. Marlo was the kind of villain who had someone killed for merely "talking back" to him.
HBO
35/35 Cigarette Smoking Man
Such was the success of Cigarette Smoking Man that he was one of very few X-Files characters away from Mulder and Scully to return in the recent Fox revival series. He's a mysterious representative for the shady corporation hiding the truth behind alien existence on Earth.
1/35 Cersei Lannister
In Cersei, Game of Thrones has found somebody whose appearance on screen makes even the most relaxed viewer nervous. She's that terrifying type of villain who endangers the safety of anyone by merely being in the same scene – something a lot of film and TV shows shoot for with their villains, but struggle to achieve.
HBO
2/35 Jim Fenner
Despite being on the other side of the bars in Larkhall women's prison, Bad Girls' officer Jim Fenner was just as villainous as its inmates. His misdeeds led to his murder in the ITV drama's seventh series.
Warner Bros Television
3/35 Gaius Baltar
The debate over whether or not Battlestar Galactica's Gaius Baltar is actually a villain rages on. But the fact that he sells out humanity to the cybernetic creations they're at war with throughout the show's four seasons earns him a place on this list.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
4/35 Gustavo Fring
Breaking Bad is a show with many selling points, but sitting at the top of the heap is Giancarlo Esposito's performance as Gus Fring, the pleasant fast-food restaurant owner who, behind closed doors, is a fearsome drug kingpin not to be messed with.
Sony Pictures Television
5/35 Gyp Rosetti
Prohibition gangster Gyp Rosetti came into Boardwalk Empire like a wrecking ball. Cannavale's performance as the maniacal self-asphyxiating character intent on destroying the world of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) won Cannavale a well-deserved Emmy.
HBO
6/35 Doug Judy
A good villain returning after an absence can be an exciting moment in a television show, but it's certainly rare for the lead hero to be as excited as the viewer. Well, not when that show is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Craig Robinson plays the affable "Pontiac Killer" Doug Judy whose elusive criminal skills leave Andy Samberg's cop Jake Peralta in awe every time he guest stars. Not all villains come in evil forms.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
7/35 The Gentlemen
Camden Toy, Don W Lewis, Charlie Brumbly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fourth season episode "Hush" is considered by many to be one of the show's best, and it's no doubt partly thanks to the malevolent Gentlemen. Inspired by Nosferatu, Hellraiser's Pinhead and Mr Burns, the creatures would cut out people's hearts, a smile etched on their face the entire time. Chilling.
20th Television
8/35 Richard Hillman
Coronation Street villain Richard Hillman had many faults (arson, murder, etc) but it was abducting his step-family and driving them into a cbad that truly cemented him as one of soap's most memorable baddies.
ITV Studios
9/35 JR Ewing
For 12 years, scheming Dallas character JR Ewing lied and cheated his way through the show so much that by the time he was gunned down – as part of the renowned "Who shot JR?" storyline – everyone was a suspect.
Warner Bros.
10/35 Al Swearengen
Al Swearengen was Deadwood's beating heart, a character whose dealings are so murky it's a wonder you actually found yourself want to to catch up with him in every new episode.
HBO
11/35 The Demon Headmaster
Despite being on screen for just three years, the Demon Headmaster – a disciplinarian who attempts to use hypnosis to control the children in his school – has wedged his way into the history books as one of children television's most chilling villains of all time.
BBC
12/35 Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell – also known as The Trinity Killer – was a key part of why the fourth season of Dexter was its greatest. Though he was a loving family man by day, Mitchell's murderous ways would come to the fore at night and an Emmy-winning Lithgow balanced that tightrope to disturbing degrees. His ultimate clash with Dexter led to one of the show's most heartbreaking climaxes.
Showtime
13/35 The Daleks
As one of Doctor Who's longest-running villains, the Daleks – a race of emotionless machines bent on universal conquest and domination – are beloved by pretty much everyone thanks to their spine-tingling wail: "Exterminate!" Whenever they return to the BBC show, it becomes headline-worthy news.
BBC
14/35 Trevor Morgan
Perhaps of all the villainous characters EastEnders has had over the years, Trevor is an unexpected choice, but none came more malevolent. His storyline of domestic abuse against wife Little Mo (Kacey Ainsworth) was heralded as one of the soap's most accurately depicted, and the country wasn't just celebrating the arrival of 2002 when she beat him with an iron in a special New Year's Eve episode in 2001. So successful was actor Alex Ferns's depiction of Trevor that he received death threats and had to travel the London underground in disguise.
BBC
15/35 VM Varga
Thewlis was rightly Emmy-nominated for his role as the very British VM Varga in the third season of Fargo, a cunning and manipulative mastermind who has a knack for leaving destruction in his wake without ever getting his hands too dirty. Impressive.
20th Television
16/35 Godmother
It's testament to Olivia Colman's acting ability – and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's writing – that someone so likeable can play someone enough so appalling, but her role as Fleabag's sneering, judgemental and domineering Godmother in the series is one of comedy's most detestable creations in quite some time.
BBC
17/35 Mr Bronson
Mr Bronson was every Grange Hill viewer's worst nightmare, arriving as part of the eponymous school's merging with another in 1985 eight years after the show first began. Bronson became a fan favourite and, despite leaving in 1987, remained a legend of the show right up until it ended in 2008.
BBC
18/35 Aunt Lydia
Further proving that Ann Dowd's niche is playing villains is her role of Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale. As the God-fearing matriarch who polices the fertile “handmaids” who bear children for the brutal theocrats of a government called Gilead, she is all the more unnerving for occasionally showing the tiniest glimmer of humanity.
Hulu
19/35 Hannibal Lecter
Taking on a role made famous by acting heavyweights Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins is no mean feat, but it's one that Mads Mikkelsen feasted upon with relish. As the Dr Hannibal Lecter in the short-lived TV series, he was able to, er, flesh out the role in a way that the aforementioned were unable to do in just four films, respectively.
Sony Pictures Television
20/35 Skeletor
Skeletor's willingness to put up with useless henchmen may have made him less scary than his face would suggest, but he caused enough of a problem for the heroic He-Man to warrant a placement here.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
21/35 Villanelle
Are villains meant to be this likeable? Thanks to Comer's performance as the sprightly badbadin in Killing Eve, she certainly bridges the gap.
IMG
22/35 Patti Levin
The Leftovers may not be a show in which its characters are distinctly good or bad, but the Rapture – an event that saw two per cent of the world's population disappear into thin air – certainly sent some on a darker path than others. None came more ominous than Patti Levin, the leader of a cult who smoke, dress in white and communicate only in writing.
HBO
23/35 Lindsay Denton
Line of Duty wouldn't have gained half as much attention if it wasn't for the critical frenzy badped up by Keeley Hawes for her portrayal of DI Lindsay Denton in the show's second and third outings. She was the perfect emblem of the show's (initial) premise that kept fans guessing whether she was good or bad right until the very end.
BBC
24/35 Benjamin Linus
The writers of Lost were such a fan of Michael Emerson's guest performance in season two that they ensured his character, Benjamin Linus, became the show's central villain right through to his final episode. As the one-time leader of the mysterious Others residing on the island, Ben was a master manipulator who played everyone off of each other and constantly remained five steps in front of the characters – and viewers – in the process.
Disney–ABC Domestic Television
25/35 Alice Morgan
Alice Morgan may have started out as the primary villain in BBC show Luther, but over time, she became the perfect foil – and Hannibal Lecter-style adviser – to Idris Elba's titular detective.
BBC
26/35 Alfie Solomons
Peaky Blinders isn't the same without Alife Solomons. It's Tom Hardy who breathed life into the volatile yet loveable baker who, thanks to the pitch perfect writing from creator Steven Knight, was the television equivalent of a lion waiting to pounce on the BBC drama's characters.
BBC
27/35 Montgomery Burns
Could Mr Burns be the greatest animated villain of all time? Quite possibly. As the wealthiest man in Springfield – loyally backed up by sidekick Smithers – he's also the town's most evil and the source of many of the long-running show's most "excellent" moments.
28/35 Livia Soprano
The Sopranos was a show full of villains, but none came more Machiavellian than Tony's mother, Livia. The first few seasons saw her conspiring with brother-in-law Junior (Dominic Chianese) to bump off her own son. Nihilism at its coldest.
HBO
29/35 Malcolm Tucker
Don't be mistaken – The Thick of It's sweary spin doctor Malcolm Tucker may be one of the funniest characters to ever appear on television, but he's also one of the most awful. The kind of character you're happy to sit back and watch take down others, but would be trembling at the thought of encountering yourself.
BBC
30/35 Maryann Forrester
True Blood was a show that may have outstayed its welcome, but it was never more brilliantly bizarre than in the days of Maryann – an ordinary women until she transformed into a bullheaded Maenad who wanted to turn The fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps into a Dionysus-worshipping bacchbadian wasteland. As you do.
HBO
31/35 Nina Myers
24 featured many notable villains over its 10 seasons, but Nina Myers sits top of the list. Why? Because she was first introduced as Jack Bauer's most trusted colleague at intelligence agency CTU before a huge season one finale twist that saw her unveiled as a corrupt deep-cover spy working for the bad guys.
32/35 Killer BOB
It would be hard for Twin Peaks' nightmarish Killer BOB not to go down in history as one of TV's best villains, considering he's an inter-dimensional entity who possesses humans and commits heinous acts of murder in their name.
33/35 Dick Dastardly
You've got to respect Dick Dastardly. The Wacky Races baddie, alongside his canine pal Muttley, was intent on wreaking havoc upon his fellow racers, despite his ploys always backfiring. He was as resilient as villains come.
34/35 Marlo Stanfield
In The Wire, unpredictability reigned whenever Marlo Stanfield was on screen. The character, introduced in season three, overtook Avon Barksdale as overseer of the Baltimore drug trade, and his quiet intensity made for unbearably tense television. Marlo was the kind of villain who had someone killed for merely "talking back" to him.
HBO
35/35 Cigarette Smoking Man
Such was the success of Cigarette Smoking Man that he was one of very few X-Files characters away from Mulder and Scully to return in the recent Fox revival series. He's a mysterious representative for the shady corporation hiding the truth behind alien existence on Earth.
Last week, Richard Madden – who played Robb Stark – revealed he was glad to be one of the earlier stars to leave the show.
You can find a ranking of every single Game of thrones character – from worst to best – here.
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