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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Winterfell
Sun, Apr 14, 201954 mins
SPOILER: Jon and Daenerys have a cold reception in Winterfell. Jon meets his brother and sisters and rides the dragons with Daenerys. Then she discloses to Sam the fate of his father and brother. When Jon meets Sam, he discloses who his parents are. Euron Greyjoy meets Cersei to collect his recompense for joining to her army. Theon rescues his sister Yara and decides to go to Winterfell. Jaime arrives in Winterfell and sees Bran Stark.
Episode 2
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Sun, Apr 21, 201958 mins
Jaime is faced by his past mistakes. Tyrion's decisions are seen with doubt. The Battle of Winterfell is discussed tactically. Sansa and Danaerys discuss the future. The remaining Night's Watch are reunited. Everyone prepares emotionally with thoughts of their fate.
Episode 3
The Long Night
Sun, Apr 28, 201982 mins
The allied living meet the vast Army of the Dead outside Winterfell. Despite swords ignited by the Red Witch, the initial Dothraki charge is decimated, and the Unsullied are quickly overwhelmed, despite the dragon-fire assist. Edd is killed saving Sam. Survivors retreat into the castle. Melisandre ignites last-minute the fire trench surrounding Winterfell to delay the advancing horde. Jon and Daenerys aerially engage the Night King, all three riding dragons. The wights fill the fire moat with corpses to invade Winterfell, storming at great effort the walls, then easily overpowering line after hideout of defenders. Jon and Rhaegal knock the Night King off Viserion, and Daenerys and Drogon burn him with dragon-fire in vain, the Night King raises the slain Winterfell defenders, including the dead entombed in the crypt, which attack the sheltered non-combatants. Wights pull Daenerys from Drogon, and Jorah is fatally wounded defending her. The Night King arrives at the Godswood and kills Theon, but just as he reaches Bran, Arya from ambush fatally stabs him with her Valyrian steel dagger. The Night King and his White Walkers shatter, creatures Viserion and all wights collapse. Her purpose served, Melisandre dies of old age.
Episode 4
The Last of the Starks
Sun, May 5, 201978 mins
After the funeral for the dead, there is a feast at Winterfell. Gendry is recognized as a Baratheon and asks Arya to marry him. Brienne and Jaime have a love affair. Daenerys asks Jon to keep his roots secret, but he decides to tell Sansa and Arya. Daenerys, her dragons, and her fleet are ambushed by Euron's fleet and are defeated; Missandei is taken captive. Daenerys decides to go to King's Landing to ask Cersei to surrender, but Cersei makes a tragic decision.
Episode 5
The Bells
Sun, May 12, 201978 mins
Jon refuses to 'betray his queen' by rightfully claiming the throne Varys urges Jon would be a better ruler, but after Tyrion reveals Varys' plot, Daenerys executes Varys by dragon fire. Jaime was captured, but Tyrion releases him to try persuading Cersei to surrender the city and escape Westeros together. Drogon destroys the Iron Fleet and most of the city's defenses, allowing Daenerys's army to enter. Cersei deludes herself the Red Keep never falls, but the Westeros forces and Golden Company are quickly overwhelmed. The city signals its surrender by a bells signal Tyrion proposed, but an enraged Daenerys ignores it, leveling the city, burning all. Despite Jon's pacifying efforts, the allied army follows her lead under Grey Worm, slaughtering soldiers and civilians in their path, horrifying Tyrion and Davos as badly. Jaime kills Euron who dared him to a duel but is himself mortally wounded. The Hound convinces Arya to abandon her longtime vendetta against Cersei and save herself; then he confronts his brother the Mountain, who disregards Cersei's orders to help her escape for the fraternal battle to the death, ultimately by falling from a tower into flames. Cersei and Jaime reunite but are killed as the Red Keep collapses on them. Jon calls for a retreat as frantic civilians flee the devastated capital.
Episode 6
The Iron Throne
Sun, May 19, 201980 mins
Jon is appalled by the Unsullied executing captured soldiers on Daenerys' orders. Tyrion finds Jaime and Cersei dead in the ruins. Daenerys rallies the Unsullied and Dothraki, proclaiming she will liberate the entire world. Tyrion resigns as Hand of the Queen and is imprisoned for treason. Arya and Tyrion separately warn Jon that Daenerys is a threat to him, House Stark, and the people. Jon confronts Daenerys. Unable to halt her destructive path, an agonized Jon kills her. Drogon, enraged, melts the Iron Throne, then carries away Daenerys' body. Later, Tyrion proposes that all future monarchs be chosen by Westerosi leaders, rather than familial succession. Bran Stark is proclaimed King Bran the Broken. He grants the North independence as a kingdom and appoints Tyrion his Hand. Jon is sentenced to the Night's Watch to appease the Unsullied, who set sail for Naath, Missandei's homeland. Tyrion reorganizes the Small Council - Brienne, Bronn, Davos and Sam - to rebuild King's Landing. Podrick is knighted. Sansa is crowned Queen in the North. Arya sets sail to explore unknown lands west of Westeros. Jon rejoins Tormund and Ghost at Castle Black, leading the Wildlings north of the Wall.
