Game of Thrones It's Like 'Rains' on Your Red Wedding Day

Dread is an underutilized emotion on TV. This is most likely due to the shackles of serialized storytelling that, impossibly, demand both constant forward momentum and deeply settled consistency. Most shows, even the very best of them, traffic in the illusion of change, not the thing itself: The Sopranos was never really going to whack Tony.

What's most interesting to me as this third season of Game of Thrones bleeds out all around us is the way its creators — Martin, certainly, as well as his able adaptors, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss — are playing with more than just television storytelling conventions. They're playing with storytelling itself.

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Game of Thrones, Season 3, Episode 9: It's Like 'Rains' on Your Red Wedding Day - Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland: