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by Eric Blume

In this season’s best episode yet, Game of Thrones head creatives David Benioff and D.B. Weiss display their astounding aesthetic taste and uncanny ability to know exactly what viewers want to see. This episode featured one powerhouse match-up after the next, giving us duet after duet of characters we want to see together, talking about what we want them to talk about, in exactly the way we want them talking about it. The episode also features particularly fine writing, an element of Game of Thrones that often goes unsung despite being one of the show’s strongest features.
The show opened with a funeral segment and an extended banquet scene that paid tribute to last week’s monumental battle...