Review of Stormborn

Game of Thrones: Stormborn (2017)
Season 7, Episode 2
6/10
"Here's my status update"
26 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was basically every character delivering their status update. A lot of exposition provided by contrived, cringy, uninspired, badly written dialogue and close-ups of cued facial expressions (Littlefinger I'm looking at you as you recycle your standard "smirking at Sansa as she's discontent with Jon Snow's status update" look). I felt like I was watching Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the clones. As early as the 20 minute mark I was starting to look at the clock to see if this episode was about to be over because it felt like it had dragged on forever and I just wanted it to be over.

There were some nice scenes involving Samwell Tarly.

The big finale of the episode was Theon and Yara Greyjoy getting their asses, and their fleet, wiped by their uncle, which could've been an intense scene if it weren't for the fact that the show has done such a p1ss poor job at establishing Euron Greyjoy as the powerful villain he now apparently is. Seriously, is this the guy the show-runners intend to follow in the footsteps of Joffrey and Ramsay?

This was easily the least good episode of GoT, so far.
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