Warning! Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6 follow.
‘The Battle of the Bastards’ was many things. It was Game of Thrones‘ most expensive episode, costing around $10 million, and it took 25 days to shoot — another record for the show.
And judging by how much of it my wife spent with her eyes squeezed nearly shut and her fingers in her ears, HBO succeeded at making one of the most tense, violent episodes of TV ever.
It was also something of a history lesson. The episode schooled us in the strategies and the horrors of warfare throughout the ages, from the Roman Empire’s worst defeat to the American Civil War and its gruesome piles of corpses. Read more…
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