In the face of death what do we hold on to, and what do we let fall away? Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) bestows a knighthood on his friend Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) in defiance of Westerosi gender roles and centuries of martial tradition. But when it does work, when it digs its fingers into the living tissue of human connection and yanks at the things we hold closest to our hearts, it really sings. For a season with six episodes it feels oddly like it’s marking time, running out the clock on the last hours of the human race with paint-by-numbers scenes like Arya (Maisie Williams) exchanging gruff hellos with Sandor “The Hound” Clegane (Rory McCann) and Gilly (Hannah Murray) feeding soup to orphans. Nor is it the most thrilling, or the saddest, or the most visually accomplished. “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” isn’t the tightest episode of Game of Thrones ever aired.
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