Review: Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere Proves the Show Has New Tricks

Warning: This post contains spoilers for season seven, episode one of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones is usually spoken about in the context of recent TV spectacles — both the shows that garner similarly huge ratings, like The Walking Dead, and those that shared its ambitious taste for high drama, like Mad Men or Breaking Bad. But the seventh-season premiere, which aired Sunday night, called to mind something far lower-brow: The final moments of a season of reality TV.