The ash has settled and new dawn rises over Westeros. The A.V. Club gives our final thoughts on this season of Game Of Thrones, how "The Iron Throne" did and did not work for us, and who the real winner of this whole game was. (It's Sansa.) Senior Writer

Katie Rife and Caity PenzeyMoog are a couple of mad queens themselves as they discuss Daenerys’ sacking of King’s Landing and offer predictions for the final episode.

We discuss the goodbyes at Winterfell, the many giant crossbows of King’s Landing, and one infamously sloppy piece of set dressing.

We discuss the cinematic qualities of “The Long Night,” whether that battle lighting was intentional, and who lived and who died in the Battle of Winterfell.

This week in Winter is Here with The A.V. Club we discuss how Arya can get it, Tormund is too good for this world, and whether it’s really a good idea to put Winterfell’s children in the crypts.

Body parts, Winterfell, Jaime and Bran: We dive into the many parallels between season eight’s premiere and the pilot episode of Game Of Thrones.

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