The sixth season of Game of Thrones premiered lasted night and boy was it shocking!
The show had us gasping till the very last second!
While Jon Snow still may be very much dead (be still his no longer beating heart), hope may lie within one the series’ creepiest characters -the Lady Melisandre.
As the first episode is titled The Red Woman, after her nickname, it seems GoTs resident witch may have something up her sleeve.
But before we could find out, something more pressing than the potential revival of Jon Snow occurred… Lady Melisandre revealed that she’s been keeping a very big secret since she first appeared on the series.
Oh boy… That is some MAJOR glamour magic!
Unveiled in the episode’s final scene, Melisandre has been keeping her appearance magically disguised all along. Her true visage isn’t that of 39-year-old actress Carice van Houten — instead, she is immensely older.
Apparently the magical object helping her weave her illusion is all thanks to a ruby necklace she always wears. Fingers crossed there something in that choker that can revive our favourite dead character.
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This is the first time the television series has overtaken George RR Martin’s original novels.
Somehow it was more jam packed than ever featured many more of our beloved and hated characters.
Jon Snow’s sister Arya Stark seems to be having a real poor time but her sister Sansa may finally got some sense! Having leaped to freedom over the Winterfell battlements with poor Theon, the pair were rescued by Brienne Tarth and Podrick.
Jon – still dead. Arya – still blind. Sansa – still alive. And Khaleesi … well she’s still the Mother of Dragons!
In sunny Meeren, Tyrion Lannister makes being confused a very attractive quality, while his lost queen Daenerys seems to have landed herself in a whole lot of trouble.
Her reunion with the Dothraki didn’t go as planned and it seems Khaleesi might have a one way ticket to death… and her dragons are nowhere to be seen.
What’s a Game of Thrones episode without the vile Cersei and her kind yet misguided brother and lover Jamie?
The secret parents are mourning the loss of their daughter Myrcella. No doubt Cersei will be going full Lannister very soon, and heads will roll for kingdom come!
What a beauty!
The English star is a famed theatre actress.
So what could possibly top all that… the discovery that Septa Unella is actually breathtaking.
During a pre-show interview for HBO, Hannah Waddingham discussed her infamous shame scene… and fans were delighted to see the English star out of costume!
“Lena and I had a great laugh doing that, I have to say. We absolutely got on like a house on fire, and at times, we were told off by the director because we were just having way too much fun!”
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The starlet also chatted to Vulture about the lack of vanity in the show.
“I’m sure Septa Unella doesn’t have any vanities, but come on! Can I have a little bit of concealer? Or bronzer, or something? A little bit of mascara? ‘No!’”
“The first time I went into the makeup trailer, we braided my hair really tight, so that you wouldn’t see any of it at all, put the wimple on, and then they brushed my eyebrows the wrong way, and then added in some hairs where most women would take them out!”
“Like, seriously, is there a hidden camera somewhere, testing me? And that was it.”
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