Top 10 'Game of Thrones' Episodes

Let's remember the good times.

By Cronan ParryPublished 5 years ago • 5 min read

With the biggest show on the planet having ended why don't we have a look back at it's finest episodes?

SPOILERS

10. Season 4 Episode 10: "The Children"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.7/10 / 35,000

RECAP:

Jon, Mance, and Stannis have a bit of a meet up. Cersei lets Tywin in on the incest, verbally, he doesn't get involved. Viserion and Rhaegal get locked up. Bless them. Ygritte is cremated. Bran and clan get attacked by skeletons and meet up with the tree boy. The Hound and Brienne battle it out and Arya could not give a fuck.

Now we're into the peak of this episode.

Jaime and Varys help Tyrion escape but not before he kills his lover, Shae, and his father, Tywin.

After that Arya gets on a boat but who cares. Tyrion just up and murdered some people.

BEST LINES:

Tywin: You're no son of mine.

Tyrion: I am your son. I have always been your son.

9. Season 9 Episode 2: "Blackwater"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.7/10 / 36,500

RECAP:

This whole episode is prep for the battle of Blackwater and the actual batle of Blackwater.

Sansa wrecks Joffrey with her excellent sass skills. There's lots of great interaction between Sansa and Cersei in this episode. Wildfire does heavy lifting in this episode. Like it does in every episode it's in. Green fire looks cool there's no denying it. I'm pretty sure the music takes cues from Pirates of the Caribbean. There's also a great interaction between Sansa and the Hound towards the end.

There's lots of great lines in this episode but I would have to give it to this little speech by the one and only.

BEST LINES:

Tyrion: Don't fight for your king and don't fight for his kingdoms. Don't fight for honour. Don't fight glory. Don't fight for riches because you won't get any. This is your city Stannis means to sack. That's your gate he's ramming. If he get's in it will be your houses he burns, your gold he steals, your women he'll rape. Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them.

8. Season 4 episode 6: "The Laws of God and Men"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.7/10 / 39,000

RECAP:

Stannis and Davos chat with a bank. Theon's dick gets sent to Yara. Theon rejects being rescued. Dany rules badly as per usual. Tyrion has a trial it's a real good one.

Tyrion's whole speech is absolutely brilliant but there's one line I love in particular.

BEST LINE:

Tyrion: Watching your vicious bastard die gave me more relief than a thousand lying whores.

7. Season 4 episode 8: "The Mountain and the Viper"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.7/10 / 42,750

Honestly I'm noticing a pattern of the best line being from Tyrion. Let's see how this one goes.

RECAP:

Gilly gets harassed. Tormund, Ygritte and clan murder some people. Missandei and Grey Worm have a spark. Littlefinger does something but honestly I don't care, sort your voice out and get out of here you irritating fuck. Jorah gets caught out for spying. The Hound and Arya show up for it which is nice. Arya even laughs. Finally we're at the fight between the Mountain and the Viper. It does not go well.

Honestly I don't recall a particularly great line in this pone so let's go with.

BEST LINE:

Arya: Laughs.

6. Season 4 episode 2: "The Lion and the Rose"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.7/10 / 43,000

RECAP:

Ramsay goes people hunting. Bronn and Jaime train. Joffrey gets some presents. Shae and Tyrion have a fight. The Red Woman burns a dude. Bran plays wolf. Joffrey and Margaery get married. Olenna and Tywin have a chat. Joffrey continues to be terrible and Margaery, Tyrion and Sansa continue to be done with it. Joffrey dies.

I'm not doing a best line for this one. Because I can't think of one.

5. Season 7 episode 4: "The Spoils of War"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.8/10 / 74,500

RECAP:

Jaime and Bronn prepare for battle. Littlefinger speaks and it is horrible as per ushual. Bran continues to be not a man. Arya comes home and meets up with Sansa and Bran. Jon shows Dany some white killing material and some drawings from the past. Dany gets angry that Tyrion fucks up. She also gets told not to use dragons and then does. Arya and Brienne have a play fight. Also I'm trying not to be angry but they talk about a lack of food at two points in this episode and then in Season 8 no one thinks about the lack of food except Sansa. Voting anything from Season 7/8 this highly is honestly ridiculous. But if you take this one episode as is and ignore everything around it, it is a good one. Missandei gets absolutely owned by Jon and Davos but let's keep pretending Dany was only ever shown to be good. Until that one episode where you were all upset as if it came out of nowhere. It absolutely did not. Season 8 just didn't do anything well and Season 7 is a bloody nightmare. If I have to write up about this whole damn thing I will but that's not what's happening right now. Enjoy your 9.8/10. Jon meets Theon after quite some time. Dany takes her armies and a dragon on a teleport mission to fight the Lannisters. Bronn shoots a dragon. Jaime falls to the bottom of a body of water in full armour, not dead.

4. Season 3 episode 9: "The Rains of Castamere"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.9/10 / 82,500

RECAP:

Death, horrifying death. Even for Game of Thrones this is just a real gut punch of an episode.

3. Season 5 episode 8: "Hardhome"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.9/10 / 83,500

RECAP:

The Night King raises some dead people like is it actually that good I don't think so, but apparently all of you do.

2. Season 6 episode 10: "Winds of Winter"

IMDB Rating / Votes : 9.9/10 / 124,250

RECAP:

Cersei fucks everyone up in what is simply one of the best episodes of television I've ever seen. Even if you've checked out because you don't like the plot and character choices the show made at this point it doesn't mean that this isn't incredible in every possible way. This is also my favourite piece of music in the show bar possibly music from "The Long Night."

1. Season 6 episode 9: "Battle of the Bastards"

IMDB Rating / Votes: 9.9/10 / 179,500

RECAP:

It's just one massive battle. It's incredible. It's well shot. It makes sense. It doesn't need to last more than one episode. Fuck Ramsay. Literally the peak of television. Also, I couldn't view the episodes after number five on this list so we've powered through them based on memory. Still the greatest piece of television I've ever seen. The end of season six is just magic.