Miles Surrey

Jon Snow and a band of misfit warriors are heading north of the Wall to capture one of the Night King’s wights and present it to Cersei Lannister at King’s Landing as proof the ultimate evil exists. So yes, it’s not the best plan a character has…

In the fourth and final season of AMC’s period tech drama Halt and Catch Fire, its lead characters are deeply concerned with morality. The Don Draper-ish salesman Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace, great as always) is reading John Updike’s 1962 short story…

There’s always a show that critics will berate people for not watching. At the end of 2016, we mourned the quiet departure of Sundance’s Rectify; in spring 2017, it was HBO’s criminally unseen drama The Leftovers. And look, I totally get it —…

It feels like the fantasy genre’s version of The A-Team: Jon Snow, Gendry Baratheon, Tormund Giantsbane, the Hound, Thoros of Myr, Beric Dondarrion and Jorah Mormont are heading north of the Wall. Game of Thrones doesn’t typically succumb to the…

What a difference a week can make. As of last week’s episode of Game of Thrones, it looked as though Littlefinger’s scheming was finally coming up short: Bran Stark threw Littlefinger’s most infamous phrase (”Chaos is a ladder”) back in his face and…

There are certainly characters on Game of Thrones who have suffered more than Gilly, but are there any that are as underserved as she is? While Samwell Tarly’s time at the Citadel has been memorable thanks to clever editing and an endless supply of…

Can’t wait to see the fallout from the epic, fiery dragon battle that ended Sunday’s Game of Thrones? Worried about Jaime Lannister, since last we saw the Kingslayer he was unconscious, sinking into the depths of a river? Well, HBO has just…

One of my favorite things about Rick and Morty, Adult Swim’s irreverent Doctor Who pastiche, is that the characters’ actions have real consequences that ripple out into later episodes. That sounds like standard fare for a TV series nowadays, but…

When he first meets Daenerys Targaryen in the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow spends the better part of their conversation rambling on about an army of undead ice zombies that are threatening to wipe out humanity. Not a great ice-breaker…

In the third episode of Game of Thrones’ current season, the enigmatic Littlefinger delivers one of his strangest monologues to date — and that’s saying something. Speaking to Sansa Stark, who’s currently in charge of Winterfell while Jon Snow is at…

Let’s just make something clear right off the bat: The final battle sequence for Sunday night’s Game of Thrones, which HBO inexplicably dubbed the “loot train attack” in its post-episode featurette (I can think of 100 better names, like “Drogon’s…

After a painstakingly complicated decoding process, USA Network has just released the first trailer of Mr. Robot’s third season — a clip that was uncovered thanks to the impressive detective work of the show’s most passionate fans on Reddit. The…

When we pick up with Luke Cage (Mike Colter) in Netflix’s superhero-crossover series The Defenders, he’s finishing the stint at Seagate Prison that he was sentenced to at the end of Luke Cage’s first season, and reuniting with Claire Temple (Rosario…

The backlash to Netflix’s Marvel series Iron Fist was swift and severe. At one point, the negative reaction to the show caused actor Finn Jones to temporarily delete his Twitter account after an ironically timed tweet about the importance of…

With respect to Big Ed Hurley, all of the major characters from the original Twin Peaks have now reappeared in Showtime’s revival. Since Twin Peaks: The Return has a slate of 18 episodes, this task took longer than most fans probably expected,…

NEW YORK — “I didn’t tell you this, I got punched in the face on Wednesday.” That was the first thing actress Krysten Ritter teased about the upcoming second season of Jessica Jones, turning to her co-star on Netflix and Marvel’s…

Characters on Game of Thrones don’t often die gracefully, but Olenna Tyrell (played by Dame Diana Rigg, excellent as always) went out on her own terms in spectacular fashion during Sunday night’s episode. After the Tyrell soldiers are wiped out by…

It was a face-to-face more than six seasons in the making. Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen finally shared the screen on Sunday’s Game of Thrones, and the difference between the two is laid out by their respective introductions. Missandei presents…

As much as Game of Thrones seems defined by its fire-breathing dragons, ice zombies and, most recently, time travel, the heart of the show is its complex human characters. Enter Jon Snow, the know-nothing bastard who becomes a reluctant, but…