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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Gwendoline Christie on the Education of Brienne of Tarth | ARTICLE

  With the possible exception of the bear she battled, it's tough to think of a performer on Game of Thrones more perfect for the part they're playing than Gwendoline Christie as the towering, glowering Brienne of...

  May 22, 2013 2:05 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: Call of Duty | ARTICLE

  "We must do our duty," Stannis Baratheon says before averting his eyes. For one telling moment, the man who would be king – who technically is king – can't even look his lowborn, ex-smuggler advisor-turned-prisoner Davos Seaworth in the...

  May 20, 2013 8:30 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: To Ser, With Love | ARTICLE

  "Goodbye, Ser Jaime." I didn't expect to be moved to tears by Game of Thrones last night any more than Jaime Lannister himself did, I don't think. But all it took was a...

  May 13, 2013 8:20 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Aidan Gillen on the Life of Littlefinger | ARTICLE

  When Aidan Gillen talks about Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, he speaks in the first person. Not gonna lie: It's . . . unnerving to talk to an otherwise amiable and insightful actor when he uses the word...

  May 8, 2013 1:25 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: The View From Up Here | ARTICLE

  You're Melisandre and Beric Dondarrion, bartering a bastard's life for the greater good. You're Tywin Lannister and Olenna Tyrell, wielding both innuendo and the laws of inheritance like a sculptor's mallet as you try to hammer the...

  May 6, 2013 7:40 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Maisie Williams on Arya Stark's Trial by Fire | ARTICLE

  When you talk to Maisie Williams, the first thing you want to say is "Congratulations." The talented young performer had never acted before landing the role of Arya Stark, but instantly imbued the character with personality...

  May 1, 2013 12:50 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: Perfect Game | ARTICLE

  Whatever it is you like about Game of Thrones, this episode gave you something to like. Written by perpetual standout Bryan Cogman and directed with real power by Alex Graves, "Kissed by Fire" marks Season Three's halfway...

  April 29, 2013 7:55 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Alfie Allen on the Passion of Theon Greyjoy | ARTICLE

  You may not know what, exactly, just happened to Theon Greyjoy on this week's episode of Game of Thrones. But you do know one thing: Whatever that was, it wasn't good. After confessing his deepest,...

  April 23, 2013 11:30 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: 'King of the Ashes' | ARTICLE

  Plenty of big ensemble dramas hit a point mid-season where it's all they can do to keep all their balls in the air. Game of Thrones is the only one where they can toss a dragon up...

  April 21, 2013 10:05 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on the Hand of the Kingslayer | ARTICLE

  He's a golden god of Westerosi society, but Jaime Lannister has spent a lot of time getting tarnished. "The mud is my friend," says actor Nicolaj Coster-Waldau of the substance his twice-captured character has seemingly been covered...

  April 16, 2013 11:35 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Punishers | ARTICLE

  It only lasted a moment, but a moment was all it took. At the very end of this episode, the instant after a certain event took place to a certain character, there was a pause, a brief...

  April 14, 2013 10:05 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Sophie Turner on Sansa Stark's Survival Skills | ARTICLE

  Can someone please start an "It Gets Better" project for Sansa Stark? After arriving in King's Landing with visions of queendom dancing in her eyes, Ned Stark's eldest girl lost her father to an executioner's axe, the...

  April 9, 2013 8:00 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Recap: Ladies' Night | ARTICLE

  "The Lords of Westeros want to burn the countryside," says guerrilla fighter Thoros of Myr to runaway Stark child Arya Stark at one point. Maybe we should look to the ladies to put out the fire. "Dark...

  April 7, 2013 10:05 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Natalie Dormer on Playing 'the Kate Middleton of Westeros' | ARTICLE

  Step aside, Lannisters: There's a new player in town. Last night's season premiere made it clear that Lady Margaery Tyrell, the gorgeous new fiancée of King Joffrey (and the widow of his closeted rebel uncle, Renly),...

  April 1, 2013 11:55 AM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Premiere Recap: One Giant Leap | ARTICLE

  Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Granted, this is kind of an odd thing to say about a television program that featured graphic onscreen nipple mutilation and a house of 200 corpses. But as Game of Thrones literally...

  March 31, 2013 10:05 PM ET
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  'Game of Thrones' Cheat Sheet: What You Need to Know for Season Three | ARTICLE

  If the plot of Game of Thrones were a Facebook relationship status, it'd be, "It's complicated." HBO's epic fantasy, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R.R. Martin, is...

  March 27, 2013 12:10 PM ET
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  Q&A: 'Game of Thrones' Insider Bryan Cogman on the Biggest Season Yet | ARTICLE

  Game of Thrones fans, meet your man on the inside. Bryan Cogman's as diehard a devotee of A Song of Ice and Fire, the sprawling series of epic fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin upon which...

  March 20, 2013 11:45 AM ET
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  'Downton Abbey' Season Finale Recap: 'I Just Can't See a Happy Ending' | ARTICLE

  So. That happened. Lots of other things happened, too, by the way. They kind of had to, seeing as how this movie-length episode (which originally aired in the U.K. not as the finale but as a traditional Christmas...

  February 17, 2013 10:45 PM ET
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  'Downton Abbey' Recap: You're Out | ARTICLE

  All you really need to know about this week's double-sized episode of Downton Abbey you can learn from Cousin Rose – or, as I like to call her, "Cousin Oliver: Downton Edition." Less a character than...

  February 10, 2013 11:05 PM ET
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  'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'The World Isn't Going Your Way' | ARTICLE

  The costumes were the black color of mourning. The outdoor light was cold and gray. The Crawley women's pale faces were made up to look sickly, even ghostly, rather than porcelain-radiant. Even in raw visual terms, the...

  February 3, 2013 10:05 PM ET