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We’ve GoT so many endings

Article Shaun De Waal - 24 May 2019

More than a million fans have signed a petition to have the last season of Game of Thrones redone

An evening routine unsullied

Article Hans Mackenzie Main - 18 Apr 2019

By the time Game of Thrones is scheduled to air on Showmax, I’m asleep. That’s just the way I roll and no amount of suspense is going to change it.

Netflix has big appetite for growth

Article Staff Reporter - 4 May 2018

The entertainment giant is disrupting the industry but its rivals are not giving up without a fight

Islam and the first feminists

Article bogdan TagDiv - 13 Apr 2018

Though laws might no longer be interpreted this way, women have always been powerful

An inconvenient review of An Inconvenient Sequel

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Sep 2017

"How poetic, how meta, how annoyingly terrific. As a young filmmaker myself, I may be having an existential crisis. Staving off the jealousy".

Something rank about ratings

Article Ulrike Kistner - 1 Sep 2017

The logic of governance at these institutions is that of neomedievalism in the war of excellence

Editorial: DisGrace – and a diplomacy one too

Article Editorial - 18 Aug 2017

Nothing in the incident and what followed leaves Zimbabwe’s first lady with any shine at all

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Creators behind ‘Game of Thrones’ stir race controversy with ‘Confederate’

Article Thomas Urbain - 2 Aug 2017

What if the South had won the American Civil War?

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5 reasons why Game of Thrones satisfies our needs (apart from sex and violence)

Article Tom Van Laer - 24 Jul 2017

The series meets deeper, more fundamental human needs than just a romp through bedrooms and battlefields

Winter is here: ‘Game of Thrones’ begins season seven

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 Jul 2017

Spoiler alert: This story contains minor details from Sunday's season premiere of HBO's 'Game of Thrones'

Close encounters with alien sex

Article Gwen Ansell - 6 May 2016

Alien relations served writer Alice Bo Sheldon well as a metaphor for the gender obtuseness and sexual obsessions of dominant human males on Earth.

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Television’s intrigues (nearly) rivalled local politics

Article Shaun De Waal - 22 Dec 2015

Shaun de Waal looks at TV shows that had us hooked with cliffhangers and plot twists.

Five worst TV moments of 2015

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Dec 2015

This year television gave us silly story ideas, cringeworthy narratives, damning decisions and rotten casting, writes Rebecca Davis.

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Game of Thrones tourism hits the mark

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 Dec 2015

Game of Thrones has put Northern Ireland on the map as fans flock to act out their medieval fantasies.

Game of ideological thrones

Article Alison Flood - 23 Apr 2015

George RR Martin believes right-wing science fiction writers have wrecked the Hugo Awards.

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