![]() The final episode dealt with death and its consequences, indicating that we are still in the first act of a very long story. And like some seasons of The Sopranos, it used its penultimate episode to show us the big whacking–that of Ned Stark. But like that show, Game of Thrones has had a stellar first season that built and built and built. ![]() I’ve always resisted the shorthand that Game of Thrones is “fantasy Sopranos.” To me, the series has more in common tonally with a range of other HBO dramas–a mix of Deadwood, Rome, The Wire, even Carnivale–than the very ironic and modern Sopranos. Follow ALERT: Before you read this post, get a crackling fire going and sit down to watch the season finale of Game of Thrones.
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