Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3: “The Long Night” winners and losers -

 


"Game of Thrones season eight, episode three, “The Long Night,” contains the biggest, most important battle in the history of the series. It’s filled with thrilling moments, last-second heroics, and characters escaping death by the skin of their teeth.

It’s also frequently completely incomprehensible. Sometimes, this is intentional — a lot of the episode takes place under cover of a snowy blizzard cloud the White Walkers call in to disorient the living, for example. But at other times, it seems incomprehensible for the sake of being incomprehensible.

It also creates a situation where Game of Thrones essentially has to reboot itself with three episodes left in its run. That’s not the end of the world — Game of Thrones, of all shows, knows how to completely reset its dramatic stakes — but after “The Long Night,” it feels a little harder to imagine that Cersei Lannister will pose much of a threat to the characters who remain alive. "

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