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Ani Bundel

Ani Bundel is an TV watching anglophilic pop culture fashion junkie with a penchant for snark. Hufflepuff 4eva.
The ending of Game of Thrones' penultimate Season 8 episode was as shocking as the penultimate episode of Season 1. The series that killed off Ned Stark to the horror of viewers was back at it again, this time with a dragon fire-bombing of King's…
Viewers were shocked by how Game of Thrones' penultimate episode ended. After years of believing Daenerys was the savior Queen who would break the wheel and end the game of thrones once and for all, it turned out the cry "Khaleesi is coming to…
Game of Thrones' series finale will mark the end of the story of Westeros. It's a story the show started back in 2011 when it first premiered on HBO. But it's also telling the end of the story which began in August of 1996. Having beaten author…
If it is the Wednesday before an episode, then it is Game of Thrones Photograph Drop Day. Thus has it been since 2011, until now, when the final photos for the last installment ever arrived. The production has worked hard to keep what happens in the…
The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones broke the wheel, but not in the ways fans were expecting. Rather than end the fight for the Iron Throne once and for all, the way she promised, Daenerys decided to upend the game board Cersei…
The last episode of Game of Thrones ever airs on Sunday, May 19. The final season has been nothing but twists and turns, with contenders for the Iron Throne suddenly becoming a much hotter commodity than who kills the Night King. Many viewers have…
Game of Thrones' penultimate episode upended expectations when Daenerys destroyed King's Landing. Suddenly, the hero of the story, who fans had been rooting to take the Iron Throne, wasn't such a good guy anymore. The murder of thousands of…
It wasn't a scene that happened in the books, but it was a riveting one nonetheless when Melisandre met Arya in Game of Thrones Season 3. The show had cut down the number of Baratheon bastards in the books to just Gendry, necessitating Melisandre to…
Game of Thrones may be ending, but that doesn't mean the men who created it are calling it a career. Those in front of the camera, like Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams are not the only ones moving on to other hit genres like…
Game of Thrones only has one episode to go before the series is over. As part of the penultimate episode, "The Bells," fans said goodbye to two of the longest surviving characters, the Lannister twins, Cersei and Jaime, played by Lena Headey and…
It was the shocking moment of Game of Thrones' penultimate episode, "The Bells," when Daenerys suddenly began to have Drogon firebomb King's Landing, street by street. For fans who assumed the Battle of King's Landing would result in a Daenerys…
There are many different aspects of Game of Thrones that draw in viewers. Some love the fantasy take on the political landscape, others are big into the world building of Westeros and Essos. For some fans, the magic and the dragons are the draw, for…
Fans only have one week left before Game of Thrones ends for good. It's a hard one for those who have followed the show from the very beginning. I personally have been writing about the show for a decade, and am not sure what I'll do with myself…
The final scene of Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5 "The Bells" was a shocking vision of King's Landing, utterly destroyed. Daenerys Targaryen had essentially firebombed the city from one end to the other, turning it to rubble, charcoal, and ash.…
Game of Thrones Season 8 staged the Battle of King's Landing to be a horror show. The Battle of Winterfell, which aired only a few weeks before, was the battle between good and evil. There was no question about which side was right and which were…
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5 shocked the world with Daenerys descent into a "heel turn," aka becoming the bad guy. When the bells began to ring across King's Landing, something inside her shattered, and the cold insanity embedded within her…
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 4 ended on a sour note. Daenerys, having once again listened to the "wisdom" of Varys and Tyrion and not attacked King's Landing, was rewarded with the loss not only of her dragon Rhaegal but her advisor Missandei.…
This week's episode of Game of Thrones was far more horrific than anyone expected. The Battle for King's Landing wound up rivaling the Battle of Winterfell, though perhaps not in the ways anyone was expecting. In the end, many characters lay dead.…
Fans of Game of Thrones have been waiting for Cersei's death since the very first season; for some, since the pilot episode. Despite both the boos and the series working to make the Lannister sibling a more three-dimensional character beyond just a…
When it comes to Game of Thrones, there are long-standing theories fans have held onto for years, and there are prophecies, either from the books or the show, which viewer have been puzzling over. Then there's Clegane Bowl. Warning: Spoilers for…