The removal of trial by combat was a surprising one and all, but how much will it change the show? Cersei is no doubt frightened at how things could go for her during her trial.
Things may have been looking up for Arya, but things went the opposite way for Cersei.
Dickless homie got on that fresh Nike Tech Fleece armor.Lmao Tyrion got to SINGING real quick.Why is this Varys guy so eager to overthrow Dany? This show doesn’t make any sense.Just a casual treason conversation on the beach.LMAO Varys-is that his name?-is really doing THIS?.Bald headed homie clearly didn’t listen to YG. Opening up the episode with some SNITCHING.But how does it play on its own merit to a Cleveland boy who once asked me what a scanner does and regarded True Detective Season 3 as a bigger event? Let's see. These are Chopz's unfiltered, first-impression thoughts during a live viewing of Season 8, Episode 5, "The Bells." This is the penultimate episode of one of the greatest sagas of all time. He's going into each episode colder than the Night King.
The catch: he, despite being an HBO subscriber who purports to watch good TV, has never, ever seen this series before. He didn't binge any episodes or recap videos in the lead-up. So instead of me, a day one fan of the series over-prosing my musings on each episode and uselessly projecting where the series might go, I said yes when former Complex employee Zach "P Chopz" Frydenlund jokingly-but-also-seriously volunteered to review the episodes for us. We have one(!) episode to go and an audience that wants to be engaged in the six days between them, and a jillion other sites publishing the same episode recap. Complex threw its hat in the ring in the walk-up to the season premiere with this incredibly nerdy but fun-to-look-at glossary. Producing material that has a chance of standing out amidst the fray is the real challenge. It's a lot to sift through, a lot of it is redundant, some of it is barely more reputable than Reddit fanfic theorizing.
With the HBO juggernaut set to conclude one of the most blockbuster, united viewing experiences the TV medium has ever seen in a mere week, every online publication, magazine, blog, medium and the like is publishing takes, predictions, reflections, etc.