Game of Thrones Season 6 Episodes Ranked
Every episode of Game of Thrones season 6 ranked. In my opinion, this season is the first season of Game of Thrones that is actually bad. It's still not terrible, but it's definitely not good like seasons 1-4, or even mediocre like last season. I started doing the best part worst part format with my season 4 ranking, and it worked pretty well there. Brief little best parts and worst parts with occasional runner up best or worst parts. But from episode 4 of the last season onward, every episode had multiple runner up worst parts, and I just went on forever ranting. Even the good parts began full paragraphs. So this season, I'll do one best part, one worst part, and then a full review of the rest of the episode.
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- DirectorMiguel SapochnikStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyCersei and Loras Tyrell stand trial by the gods. Daenerys prepares to set sail for Westeros. Davos confronts Melisandre. Sam and Gilly arrive in the Citadel. Bran discovers a long-kept secret. Lord Frey has an uninvited guest.7/10
Best Part: Obviously the Beginning in King's Landing. This is the best scene/sequence all season and one of the best of the entire show, and, beyond even the leadup to the red wedding, the most tense this show has ever been. My heart was going at 1000 bpm, I swear. It was so tense, and it was breathtaking in it's conclusion. Tommen's death was so beautiful. It was tense, thrilling, shocking, tragic, beautiful, and it saw an iconic villain return to form. The scoring was the best of the show. The acting is amazing, and Lena Headey gives her Toure de Force performance (a true feet considering that she has so many amazing moments). It's amazing, the second best scene of all of seasons 5 and 6, behind only Cersei's walk of shame (wow, king's landing has fantastic finales). Oh and it"s visually stunning.
Worst Part: Meereen is weird. Tyrion is weird. Dany really trusts Tyrion more than anyone else. It's still weird as it was in Hardhome. She doesn't know you! She leaves Daario in charge I guess before leaving with Varys by her side so that... makes sense. At least it looks really pretty.
Arya murdering Walder Frey after feeding him his children is fun. I'm satisfied. Cersei being queen of the Seven Kingdoms is a bit weird however it kind of makes sense assuming everyone's too scared to stop her for the moment. Jon being named the King in the North is a bit odd but the scene on it's own is decent I guess. Odd choice to put the revelation that R+L=J that has to happen in the finale after being forcibly postponed since episode 3 right here, but the cut to grown up Jon is really good. Oh, and Littlefinger sucks he's no fun he's been ruined like Tyrion and I hate it. Davos and Melisandre's pretty good though. Sam and Gilly at the Citadel is cute and that's that. Dorne is okay, however Varys showing up to say "or fire and blood" is a bit cringey and the Sand Snakes are there and they make everything worse. Overall, a mediocre at most episode brought up by one fantastic scene. - DirectorMark MylodStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyKit HaringtonJon and Sansa gather troops. Jaime arrives at Riverrun. Olenna Tyrell plans to leave King's Landing. Theon and Yara plan a destination. Arya makes plans to leave.5/10
Best Part: King's Landing has really returned to form this episode, wow. Margaery actually uses like... subtext and cleverness. Cersei's stupidity is actually fun. The tyrells are really sad. Wow.
Worst Part: Everyone knows that Braavos is awful in this one, and I don't want to have to talk about it.
Jon and Sansa searching for people to fight for their cause is actually pretty good this episode. Sansa giving up on her beliefs and writing to Littlefinger is pretty sad. Lyanna Mormont is amazing! The Hound and Ian McShane are also really great. Once you accept that the Hound is somehow alive it's really good. Yara and Theon are pretty good I guess though Yara's a bit weird. The Riverlands stuff is rather contrived but also pretty good. Wow, this is actually an okayish episode. - DirectorJeremy PodeswaStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyThe fate of Jon Snow is revealed. Daenerys is brought before Khal Moro. Tyrion gets used to living in Meereen. Ramsay sends his dogs after Theon and Sansa. Ellaria and the Sand Snakes make their move. Cersei mourns for Myrcella.4/10
Best Part: Surprise surprise, Lena Headey is a good actor. Great performance, very very sad.
Worst Part: Dorne. Wow, more great surprises from the Red Woman. Dorne is always bad, this is one of the worse episodes for Dorne but not one of the very worst just because Dorne is always so terrible. Doran is just dead now, with his guards watching. Obara and Nymeria are somehow on the ship with Trystane. Nymeria has her infamous whip which is apparently the most effective weapon against a sword, Obara steals Nymeria's kill of Trystane and they make cringy joke. Never to be seen again (I hope). Yeah, they somehow disappear from the boat after this, but I don't care because at least they're gone. I wish they had just ended it earlier, since I don't see why it matters that Trystane is dead, but I'm still just glad this stuff is over.
Okay, this episode is actually tolerable. It's worse than all but 2 episodes of season 5, but it's still tolerable. Ramsay grieving for Myranda is pretty good. Davos doesn't really need to get into the room with Jon Snow's buddies, but that's fine. Don't know why Ser Alliser confessed to treason, but him trying to break into the Jon Snow-room is pretty good. Melisandre questioning her faith and revealing that she is actually old without the necklace is good, I don't see how it's relevant, since it doesn't seem to be what's keeping her alive or anything, but it's pretty good. The House of Black and White is awful, Blind Training peasant Arya is stupid, but that's nothing new. Brienne has now stumbled apon Sansa too many times and her entire tragic story from the last season's finale is destroyed but at least it's kind of cool. Dany's fleet burns I guess, so that's fine. "Mhysa" of course, does not meen mother in Valyrian, but that's certainly not a major problem. Dany's journies are technically fine, but it's all just kind of lame and boring. Daario and Jorah are fun, and that's just that. Overall, not a good episode, but mediocre. Not worse than much of season 5. I hope it stays at this quality until the beginning of season 8, when I'm sure it will fall off a cliff. - DirectorMiguel SapochnikStarsPeter DinklageKit HaringtonEmilia ClarkeJon and Sansa face Ramsay Bolton on the fields of Winterfell. Daenerys strikes back at her enemies. Theon and Yara arrive in Meereen.4/10
Best Part: Ramsay Bolton. Iwan Rheon gives it his all, Ramsay is so despicable and his death is so satisfying. And Rickon's death is so sad.
Worst Part: Yes, Sansa didn't tell Jon about the Knights of the Vale and let's try to all forget about it as quickly as possible.
Wow, this episode looks amazing, like amazing. Jon almost being crushed is so claustrophobic. Jon running at Ramsay, while some have accused it of being manipulative or bad, is actually a very emotional and realistic gut reaction. His survival is not as flawless, but as I've always argued, Jon has had plot armor since day 1. The siege of Meereen is so awful and rushed and later Tyrion makes stuff up about season 1. Overall, a very mixed episode. - DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyDaenerys arrives at Vaes Dothrak. Sam and Gilly sail for Horn Hill. Arya trains as No One. Varys finds information on the Sons of the Harpy. Ramsay receives a gift. Tommen meets with the High Sparrow. At Castle Black, a miracle occurs.4/10
Best Part: The Wall! Jon executing the traitors is great stuff, poor Olly. Alisser Thorne's last words are great.
Worst Part: Again, I really want to say Braavos, but now I just have to say the cave. The whole trip to the tower of Joy is just... ugh. Why does he need to see this stupid fight if he's heard about it a thousand times. To see that the fight was actually won by someone else who stabbed Arthur Dayne? What significance is that? Oh I guess it's just to setup a future big revelation about what is actually in the tower of joy. Of course, it must be saved for later because the stupid Three-Eyed Raven pulls Bran out of the vision to keep the intrigue pulling us back to the show as it declines. I'm betting the big reveal will suck anyway.
Daario and Jorah are pretty fun and Daario finding out about Jorah's greyscale is a good moment. Vaes Dothrak is still boring and annoying. Sam and Gilly are cute and a bit nonsensical, like you're on the ship and she doesn't know! King's Landing is a bit boring and Tommen gives into the High Sparrow way too easily, but it's tolerable. Braavos still sucks, but that's nothing out of the ordinary. Winterfell is odd. Direwolf = Rickon, Rickon is offered AFTER Ramsay agrees to be friends and it's just odd. Varys blackmailing a sexworker is fine I guess, but Meereen still sucks. - DirectorJeremy PodeswaStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyBran trains with the Three-Eyed Raven. Tommen meets with Cersei. Tyrion makes a bold move. Theon leaves while at Pyke new issues arise. Ramsay's brother is born. Davos asks Melisandre for a miracle.3/10
Best Part: King's Landing I guess? Tommen locks his mother in the red keep which is weird but pretty good and Jaime really hates the High Sparrow, so that's fun.
Worst Part: Oh wow this is a hard one... I want to say Braavos, but... the Wall. Davos trying to convince Melisandre to save Jon when he didn't pay that curtesy to Stannis, as if that would help him get out of the room. The door not being watched enough to prevent Mel from getting into it in the first place. Just walk out, guys! Well, the wildling ex machinas get there. I guess that solves the problem of needing to be able to get out of that room with their lives, and the urgency to revive Jon since he was somehow supposed to help them live. And then comes Jon's elaborate haircut, far different from what was shown in the brotherhood cave in season 3, before coming back to life and destroying the emotional impact of the last season's finale. This season really has a thing for doing that.
This episode really doesn't have much of... anything going for it. Daario and Jorah are still pretty fun, and once again that's all I need to say about that. Dany and Khal Moro is still kind of uninteresting and annoying, but technically okay I guess. Ramsay kills Roose, Walda, and the baby, which is sad and Iwan Rheon is a good actor, but Roose is stupid and Ramsay is too but it's pretty tolerable. Euron is already kind of stupid and Balon just dies like that. Like they bring up the tension between Balon and Yara for one scene and then kill him off just because. Bran is back and after getting me excited for half a second I want him to go away again. The Three-eyed Raven is already stupid, Hodor is Wylis until we say bye bye to him out of nowhere, and Meera thinks this whole thing is stupid. I hate how Tyrion's being done dirty, and now he says "he makes dwarf jokes, I make eunuch jokes" clearly admits his flanderization and is a lie, but it's not as damning as "That's what I do. I drink and I know things" and also Grey Worm and Missandei are so boring. After killing her own story, Brienne has a boring but fine conversation with Sansa before Theon decides that he's going to travel to the Iron Islands somehow, which is just stupid. Braavos needs to stop. NOW. I haven't talked about the Waif yet, but she is clearly not No One and everyone knows it. Blind Training is still stupid. - DirectorJack BenderStarsPeter DinklageEmilia ClarkeKit HaringtonSansa and Jon make plans. Arya is given another chance to prove herself. Jorah confesses a secret to Daenerys. Tyrion meets with a red priestess. Yara finds her rule tested. Bran discovers the origin of the White Walkers.3/10
Best Part: Wait, it's Braavos? I never thought I'd say that but yeah. The Bloody Hand play is really great funny and impactful for Arya's story, Richard E. Grant is fantastic, my only complaint is actor man picking warts off his dick. Why did they need to include this?
Worst Part: The Iron Islands no doubt about it, it's awful, I hate it, I hate the Kingsmut and everything else. Euron is so awful, I hate him so much, and not in a love to hate way, I just hate that his charachter exists. The whole thing has bad dialogue too and some really cringy speaches. Then Theon and Yara somehow take all the ships so Euron pledges to make the greatest fleet the world has ever seen which totally 100% makes sense.
Okay, most people would put the cave at the top of their list. But I think that from a logical point of view the sequence is pretty flawed but I can really appreciate it from an emotional point of view. Also the build up with Bran not being told about the Night King's touch is so stupid. Dany likes Jorah for some reason but I can kind of appreciate her banishing Jorah out of love. Sansa doesn't trust Jon for some reason I guess. The scene with Sansa and Littlefinger in Molestown is awful for so many reasons I can't talk about here. The Red Priestess Kinvara sucks. In conclusion, not as bad as the previous episode, but... the third worst episode of the show so far. - DirectorJack BenderStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyEmilia ClarkeBran and Meera find a new ally. Gilly meets Sam's family. Arya makes a difficult choice. The Lannisters and Tyrells march against the High Sparrow.2/10
Best Part: Wait, Braavos has been the best part of two episodes in a row? Yeah, I never thought it would come true. But the Bloody Hand is still so much fun. While this episode has a bit more bad, with the Waif being still stupid, this storyline is even more impactful for Arya's emotional arc and it's really compelling, and also the play is just barely even better than in the first part.
Worst Part: Beyond the Wall. After Bran and Co. are saved by a Deus Ex Benjen, he takes the time to explain to them his mind-numbing survival. Truly nonsensical.
Mace Tyrell marching into king's landing is useless but fine okay, everything works out great, Margaery sadly sacrifices her morals before they go up and make an announcement that they've... joined the faith? Sure. Sam and Gilly are cute as always but their whole plot here is so stupid. Writers, Sam is not an idiot! Dany randomly discovers her dragons and then gives the cringiest speech since the Sand Snakes in Sons of the Harpy. Edmure being a prisoner of Lord Frey is just weird and I have nothing else to say about that. Takes the Door's spot as the 3rd worst episode of the show yet. - DirectorMark MylodStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeyBrienne arrives at Riverrun. Arya seeks shelter. Jaime meets with Edmure Tully. Cersei challenges the Faith. Sandor Clegane hunts for revenge. Tyrion faces the consequences of earlier decisions.2/10
Least Bad Part: King's Landing. Yeah, it's beginning to become a bit more clear that Tommen is a little too underdeveloped, and yeah it's a bit boring, but you have to admit that Tommen's coldness in front of his mother is pretty good.
Worst Part. Bravos. Like in The Broken Man, everyone knows it sucks and makes no sense and I don't want to talk about it.
The Blackfish dying offscreen is so awful but the boat scene with Brienne and Jaime is pretty okay. Missandei and Grey Worm and Tyrion are boring before the entire season of attempted diplomacy go to waste and the siege of Meereen begins. - DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsPeter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena HeadeySansa arrives at Castle Black. Tyrion makes a deal with the slave masters. Jorah and Daario sneak into Vaes Dothrak. Ramsay sends a letter to Jon. Theon arrives at Pyke. Cersei and Olenna Tyrell plot against the High Sparrow.2/10
Least Bad Part: The Vale. Petyr's now resorted to being solely involved in Sansa's storyline's but he's pretty fun and manipulative here and not stupid so that's a plus..
Worst Part: This is another really tough one but... Vaes Dothrak. Why did you already forget about that Khaleesi you converted to your side in your plan? Why did your plan rely on the Dorhraki being stupid and how did it work? Fire does not work like that, shut up. Wait why do the Dothraki love the woman who just burned down their sacred temple and shed blood in their holy city? None of it makes any sense.
The Iron Islands look awful and feel bad and Yara's a bit weird but it's fine I guess. Sansa's reunion with Jon is really sweet but everything after that is bad. Really, Sansa, you KNOW that Ramsay sent the pink letter and that he has Rickon. Also after Davos asks Melisandre a hard question the writers get out of having to cause that tension to effect the plot until the finale, as Brienne walks up and just tells Davos that she killed Stannis I guess, so that's great. Meereen sucks, Tyrion is being ruined by the writing, the whole situation with the Sons of the Harpy and the Masters in slavers bay is stupid and I'm tired of even thinking about it. Oh my god King's Landing is so boring, why does the High Sparrow need to go on about shoes. I HATE Osha's death, good actors though. In conclusion, this is the second worst episode of the show so far. Hooray!