The Long Night

Here are a few words from a 49 year old teenager. Those who have not yet seen The episode, please do not read those lines. I purposefully do not use the word “s.....” because this social network would immediately block my publication. Only to say... A few days after my first viewing - I watched it twice - I still feel overwhelmed by the intensity of what I saw and heard. It almost never happens to me in front of a television set. For sure, there were a few minutes of “The Walking Dead” that were genuinely heartbreaking. But what GOT’s producers managed to tell in that episode offered me the greatest television experience I have ever lived. I think I feel grateful for the emotions I felt. And I also feel sad as I wonder what might follow. I was extremely impressed by the dramatic journey the producers took me through. The first assault towards Death led by Jorah Mormont is impossible to forget, as lit swords rapidly fade away in the dark, and the traumatic sound of gallops rushing back from a failed battle, bruised bloody faces, and already a sense of doom... The strongest and most heroic knights now confronting an enemy with unlimited resources seem to experience genuine despair for the first time... Miguel Sapochnik, the director of that episode, did a fantastic job taking the cast to new emotional places, breaking features otherwise dignified, and now seemingly confronted by archaic terror as the end of the world is near. “The Long Night” is by far GOT’s best episode.