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Review: Game of Thrones season five opener

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This article contains spoilers for the first episode of Game of Thrones, Season five.

“The future is shit, just like the past,” remarks Tyrion, not long after he first appears in season five of Game of Thrones. It’s a line that echoes through the first episode, The Wars to Come. Written by show-runners...

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