Game of Thrones Recap: The Broken Man

Season 6 / Episode 7 / HBO First off, can we talk about how this shit don’t even look like Game of Thrones? What is this, fuckin’ Middle Earth? They building a church for St. Samwise? They go with the cold open, and for what, a Pillars of the Earth spinoff? Yes, how does one make their way to the twins without getting murdered for no reason at all? [divider type=”space_thin”] The only thing that can save that shit is DA GAWD OF MONOLOGUE, ask about me / [dj scratch] / ask about me, Ian McShane. Dude still one of the best actors alive man and he out here patting folks on the back, handing tools to hardworking folk, rockin’ the iced out seven piece around his neck straight from Jacob. And then, as the people were smiling, wiping sweat from their brows, damn near whistling while they worked, and Ian McShane stared up into the sun, over the church they were building and the music built into a nice sweeping crescendo of hope and rebirth…I realized it. I remembered what show I was watching. And 3 minutes in I already knew all these fuckers were gonna die horrible deaths. Thrones is about that equivalent exchange. If you see hope, that means somebody, somewhere is getting disemboweled. Of course the big reveal is that Sandor Clegane aka The Hound is still alive. Dude out here getting his John Henry on and walking with that limp that Brienne left him under the Christmas Tree. So McShane, or Earth-2 Swearengen, giving The Hound shit about finding him all but dead in the spot where A…