There’s one real issue with Game of Thrones’s habit of making Episode 9 of each season a powerful, high-budget shocker – they have to follow it up. Season finales tend to lean more towards setup than on other prestige dramas, which works well with the overarching nature of the story. But “Mhysa” had a hard row to hoe, both following up the powerful “Rains of Castamere” and trying to put a season cap on a story that’s actually at its midpoint – about 60% of the way through A Storm of Swords, at a glance.
And it’s hard to rate it a full success. There were a couple big missed opportunities, an ending sequence that certainly didn’t live up to the last two years, and some scenes that really just seemed excessive use of screen time. Yet “Mhysa” also had a level of thematic cohesion that was missing from other episodes this year, and served as something of a come-down; an after-dinner scotch after we gorged ourselves on Holy-Shit-Quotient last week.
The new album from KHALEESI, with Dany on vocals, Daario & Jorah on guitar, Missandei on keyboards, Barristan on bass, and Grey Worm on drums.
