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10 Best 'Game of Thrones' Episodes, Ranked
Game of Thrones' best episodes, from "The Rains of Castermere" to "Blackwater," show why it dominated pop culture in the 2010s.
In 2011, HBO released Game of Thrones, an adaptation of George R. R. Martin'sA Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. Set in a world where winters can last for decades, it follows several noble houses trying to survive in a world of cutthroat political intrigue on the brink of war. Yet as the great houses battle over which bloodline has the right to rule, cold winds from the north herald an army of the dead, with only a wall of ice manned by an understaffed order between them and the Seven Kingdoms.
