Game of Thrones TV Club | Ep 1, Season 8: Return to Winterfell

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3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this latest episode of Slate’s weekly Game of Thrones podcast, Sam Adams, June Thomas, and Dan Kois recap the season 8 premiere, “Winterfell.” The three chat about all the reunions, Dany’s faults, Cersei’s war strategy, whether the Night King is actually a good leader, and the Worst Person in Westeros. To subscribe to the Game of Thrones TV Club and follow all of Slate's Game of Thrones coverage, visit slate.com/gameofthrones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Slate Game of Thrones podcast.
0:14.0	Today we are going to be discussing season eight, episode one, Winterfell.
0:19.3	Joining me is Dan Cois, who is an editor at Slate.
0:22.4	Dan, hello.
0:23.0	Hey, guys.
0:24.2	And June Thomas, who is the senior managing producer of a podcast here.
0:27.6	Hello, June.
0:28.2	Hello, Sam.
0:29.7	All right.
0:30.3	Let's start right off.
0:31.4	It's been almost a year and a half since the last time we saw Game of Thrones,
0:35.8	and we returned to Winterfell on the episode title,
0:38.7	which HBO kept from us until 10 p.m. last night, so suspenseful and then so boring,
0:45.8	as Just Winterfell. But what do we make of this episode?
0:49.7	Just Winterfell, the new episode of Game of Thrones.
0:54.0	The things I liked about it were all the things that were sort of callbacks to the premiere,
0:58.1	like everyone gathering at Winterfell and all these people getting together,
1:01.8	and even like a kid climbing a tree, for God's sake,
1:04.7	there were like all these fun callbacks to that pilot.
1:07.5	And also some limb art by the artists of the white walkers.
1:12.7	Right.
1:13.0	We also had that in season one episode.
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