Game of Thrones season 6 premiere: 3 winners and 7 losers from "The Red Woman"

 

Such an episode was "The Red Woman." In the wake of season five's ever-tightening spiral of chaos, the sixth season opened with a firm focus on the idea that maybe the patriarchal structures of the show's world were part of the problem, and the best thing for women to do would be to kill all of the men they saw.

I'm exaggerating slightly, but outside of a scene with Tyrion and Varys striding around Meereen (in which a beggar woman is prominently featured), every other storyline in the episode was either directly centered on a woman who stood up to have her revenge or tangentially about that.

So were women the winners of this week's Game of Thrones episode? Not so fast. Here are three winners and seven losers from the season six premiere. (There are always more losers.)

Game of Thrones season 6 premiere: 3 winners and 7 losers from "The Red Woman" - Vox