In its first-season finale, Game of Thrones tied up its loose ends as well as a sprawling fantasy epic could be expected to. More importantly, it left us wanting more by introducing us to Daenerys Targaryen's little ... friends. We bid our spoiler-filled goodbyes below.
TVGuide.com's Hanh Nguyen is an avid scripted-TV watcher, a horror-avoider and someone who's read George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, on which HBO's Game of Thrones is based. Colleague Rich Juzwiak rarely watches scripted television, is a gorehound and became alerted to Martin's existence just recently, as he started researching this new swords-and-sandals (well, boots) series. He knows nothing of these sorcerers (if that is indeed what they are), while Hanh is something of an expert (read: fantasy/sci-fi nerd). Each week, he'll try to make sense of this crazy new show by enlisting Hanh's expertise. It may turn out to be a test of tolerance: in this case, the Games begin after the TV is off...
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The X-Files alumna Gillian Anderson is exploring strange new territory again — but this time it's not from the otherworld but the Old World.
In her long-awaited comeback to television — PBS' Bleak House, airing Sundays at 9 pm/ET — Anderson trades in the tailored pantsuits of an FBI agent for the demure Victorian gowns of a 19th-century aristocrat with a checkered past.
The Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House represents a 180-degree turn from
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