Game of Thrones/Recap

Warning: these recaps are a bonanza of uncensored spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Season One (April 17th, 2011 through June 19th, 2011)

The first season of Game of Thrones is based off of Book One of the fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire. The book title, A Game of Thrones, is being used as the overarcing title for the whole TV series. The first season consists of ten episodes, written by the show creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, as well as Jane Espenson, Bryan Cogman and the author of the novels himself, George R.R. Martin.

1. Winter Is Coming
2. The Kingsroad
3. Lord Snow
4. Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
5. The Wolf and the Lion
6. A Golden Crown
7. You Win or You Die
8. The Pointy End
9. Baelor
10. Fire and Blood

Season Two (April 1, 2012 – June 3, 2012)

The series was renewed for a second season only a few days after the premiere of the first episode. The season is based off of Book Two, A Clash of Kings. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss continued to write most of the episodes, with George R.R. Martin writing one episode as well (#9, entitled "Blackwater"). There are ten episodes.

1. The North Remembers
2. The Night Lands
3. What is Dead May Never Die
4. Garden of Bones
5. The Ghost of Harrenhal
6. The Old Gods and the New
7. A Man Without Honor
8. The Prince of Winterfell
9. Blackwater
10. Valar Morghulis

Season Three (March 31, 2013 – June 9, 2013)

The show's ratings actually improved in season two, so that a third ten episode season was quickly greenlit. As the third book, "A Storm of Swords," is too long to properly fit into that time (having a similar word count to the entirety of The Lord of the Rings), and the ambitious scope of the series precludes making more within a year, Season Three will not contain the entirety of the third book. George R.R. Martin wrote episode #7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (formerly called "Autumn Storms")>

1. "Valar Dohaeris"
2. "Dark Wings, Dark Words"
3. "Walk of Punishment"
4. "And Now His Watch Is Ended"
5. "Kissed by Fire"
6. "The Climb"
7. "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"
8. "Second Sons"
9. "The Rains of Castamere"
10. "Mhysa"

Season Four (April 6, 2014 – June 15, 2014)

1. "Two Swords"
2. "The Lion and the Rose"
3. "Breaker of Chains"
4. "Oathkeeper"
5. "First of His Name"
6. "The Laws of Gods and Men"
7. "Mockingbird"
8. "The Mountain and the Viper"
9. "The Watchers on the Wall"
10. "The Children"

Season Five

Scheduled to premiere in 2015. George R.R. Martin has said he will not be writing any scripts for this season, and will focus on completing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter. Filming started in June 2014.

Season Six

A sixth season has been confirmed, probably to be aired in 2016.