Jon Snow and Ygritte’s goodbye at the climax of season three ought to have been much sadder.
This is true in season one, as the machinery creaks to set up the beheading they didn’t think could happen.
The final series of Game of Thrones attracted an amazing amount of opprobrium online, including a petition for the whole thing to be rewritten and shot.
After some calm reflection, we can present this, a comprehensive and highly objective ranking of every single episode.