I AM THE DRAGON'S DAUGHTER, AND I SWEAR TO YOU THAT THOSE WHO WOULD HARM YOU WILL DIE SCREAMING: A bold statement from Matt Zoller Seitz, but I think he's right: "This was the best first season of a cable series, and surely the best first season finale, since "Deadwood" back in 2004."
As someone who came into Game of Thrones as a complete novice (and generally anti-fantasy at that), I was blown away by this season. No, I didn't quite follow who everyone was (thank you, Internet recappers), and I do rue the amount of spoilers that did leak into my consciousness over the past few months, but this was just damn gripping television.
(Heck, why limit himself to cable-only? Season one of Lost comes close, but not showing us the next scene of what's in the hatch was a regrettable error.)
