Game of Thrones - Season 5 (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, George R. R. Martin
	Actors: Peter Dinklage (Xmen: Days of a Future Past), Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Emilia Clarke (Terminator: Genesis), Kit Harington (Pompeii)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: November-December 2015, HD VOD, Home Cinema
Synopsis: The games of power for the control of the Iron Thrones rage on.
Review: The structure of this TV-series is by now so well established and its quality so constant that it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish and review a season independently from another. People die including main characters, dragons are betting bigger, tough decisions are taken, battles are fought, characters are prisoner of their destiny, some others are born evil... Characters continue to grow up, like the two Stark daughters, while Daenerys is apparently more stuck in her position. For this fifth season I can focus on the bit of convergence I usually lacked in the first seasons: I appreciate that groups of characters converge while other leave on new missions, so that even though it looks like the series will never end, at least the viewer see some progression in the middle-term. I can also notice the apparition not of new alliances (always expected in the story) but of new themes, like the religious one starting in the Episode #5 High Sparrow. There has always been mention throughout the series of the seven Gods, the true God, the God of Fire, the many-faces God, but this time we see in action a legitimized group of religious fanatics not unlike the Catholic Inquisition. Some characters will learn that such power and fanaticism is not to be toyed with. The last three episodes (Hardsome, The Dance of Dragons and Mother's Mercy) are quite impressive both in terms of amplitude of the visual effects or of impact on some character's development, which deliver what the audience wanted although I found the ending a bit too open and not satisfying enough. But also how to close satisfactorily ten parallel story arcs?
Rating: 6 /10