<em>Game of Thrones</em>: Sansa Stark Will Be Heard
Her forcing Littlefinger to hear of the violence that she endured was a moment of catharsis—not just for the character, but for the show.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Game of Thrones has been very fairly criticized, again and again, for its rampant depictions of violence—against kids, against women, against random characters, against everyone. The criticism generally involves a subsidiary accusation: not just that the show revels in its violence, but that it isn’t thoughtful about the way it deploys it. That it depicts blood and gore and death—and the human pain that comes with it—wantonly and gleefully. Sadism, without strategy.
Sunday night’s episode—definitely, as my colleague Spencer Kornhaber , “one of the most memorable episodes in history”—offered something of a rebuke to those criticisms, and also.
