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Kit Harington Was Just As Surprised About Jon Snow's Fate on Game of Thrones As You


This post contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned.

It’s been three months since HBO aired the series finale of Game of Thrones and many people, including the show’s cast, are still processing the fates of their favorite characters.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kit Harington who played Jon Snow, finally reveals how he felt about the decision to have Jon kill his lover/aunt Daenarys (Emilia Clarke) after she went “mad” and unleashed dragon fire across huge swaths of King’s Landing.

Harington went into the final table read for season eight without having read the ending, with Clarke warning him that he was in for a surprise. “I didn’t realize what was going to happen the whole way through until maybe half a page before Jon kills Dany. I remember my mouth dropping open and looking across Emilia at the table, who was slowly nodding as I went, ‘No, no, no!'” he said. “It was a ‘holy f*ck’ moment, pardon my language. Jaw dropping. I was completely surprised by it, even though you can kind of see the path through the season of how it was getting there—and even the previous couple of seasons before that, once you can look back. But it was still a big shock to me.”

He says they shot the scene where Jon stabs Dany for almost three weeks, but that it was important to really get it right. And while Jon’s decision was a tough one, Harington saw the logic in his character’s choice. “But what it really comes down to, the real crux of it, is the decision is made when she puts it between her and his family,” he explained. “Jon essentially sees it as Daenerys or Sansa and Arya, and that makes his mind up for him. He choose blood over, well, his other blood. But he chooses the people he has grown up with, the people his roots are with, the North. That’s where his loyalties lie in the end. That’s when he puts the knife in.”

While many fans took issue with how the show ended, Harington disagrees.

“I loved it. When I read it [Jon leading the Free Folk back to the North], that bit really made me cry. What really made me cry was on the paper: ‘End of Game of Thrones,'” he said. “But as far as an ending for Jon Snow, this character that I loved for so many years and had grown so close to, and had meant so much to me … seeing him go beyond the Wall back to something true, something honest, something pure with these people he was always told he belongs with — the Free Folk — it felt to me like he was finally free. Instead of being chained and sent to the Wall, it felt like he was set free. It was a really sweet ending. As much as he had done a horrible thing [in killing Daenerys], as much as he had felt that pain, the actual ending for him was finally being released.”



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Alyssa Milano Interview Lifetime Tempting Fate Movie


As I sat and watched an early screener of Alyssa Milano‘s new Lifetime movie, Tempting Fate, I lost track of how many times I actually said out loud, “Oh shit.” In fact, there’s so many twists and turns I probably said worse than that. But when I meet up with Milano to talk about the movie and tell her this very story, she smiles in delight. “It’s really captivating, right?! This movie could have gone in a very exploitative, sensationalized direction, but there was a lot of depth and nuance. Plus, there’s the scandalous aspect of it.”

She’s not kidding. Tempting Fate is based on author Jane Green’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, and tells the story of what happens when wife and mom-of-two Gabby (Milano) is tempted by another man. It’s the kind of story that has been done a thousand times before, but under the direction of Kim Raver (Grey’s Anatomy) and Manu Boyer, it draws you in faster than one of Hannah Brown’s rose ceremonies on The Bachelorette.

Milano wanted to put her own spin on the character, and for that reason, didn’t read Green’s book ahead of filming. “I get really nervous reading books that people love and then going in and playing those characters,” she says. “I think I would obsessed over making sure I was giving the fans of the book what they felt they needed rather than giving the character what it needed to be a successful character.”

What the character is though is a flawed, multi-dimensional woman coming to terms with a not-so-honest husband, teenage daughters, and a life not quite as fulfilling as she’d like. “What struck me most is this is someone that was truly accountable for their actions,” she says. “Gabby’s like, ‘Yeah, I made a choice, my entire life blew up, and I gotta put the pieces back together even though I know it’s never going to be what it was.’ We don’t really see that so much in films.”

And you don’t see many actors like Milano, who are willing to pull back the curtain on the process, and what happens when life imitates art and vice-versa. Here, the impassioned activist opens up about all of that and more.

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Sophie Turner Hints At Sansa Stark's Fate Ahead of GOT Series Finale


In a new Sunday Times magazine article, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner touched on mental health, her relationship with her now-husband Joe Jonas, and the series finale of GoT, which airs Sunday (May 19) on HBO. Specifically, she dropped a rare hint about how everything will wrap up for her character, Sansa Stark—and to be honest, it’s hard to know what to make of it.

Fans are still in shock from last week’s episode, which had a massive twist that left viewers reeling and wondering how it will all end (no spoilers here about all that, but feel free to read more on that here). As the end of the series approaches, Turner told the UK-based paper that the ending of the 8-year long television show was “satisfying” for her. However, there’s a huge “but” in there for the rest of us.

Stark’s long been considered a contender to take the throne—as is Daenerys, Jon Snow, and Arya. And while she’s definitely not giving anything away with her statement on the ending, it does leave us wondering. “It’s a great ending, from my perspective, it’s very satisfying,” she told The Sunday Times magazine. “But I think a lot of people will be upset too.”

We might not know exactly what’s happening, but at least one person outside of the cast does: Turner told the outlet that she spilled the beans to Jonas—much to his chagrin.

“I’ve just told Joe. But he’s so mad at me—he loves the show!” she said. “Well, I have to tell someone, otherwise I’ll burst.”

This isn’t the first time Turner’s dropped hints about tonight’s episode. She told 60 Minutes earlier this year that “some people will be satisfied, others not so much.”

Luckily, we only have to wait a few more hours to find out exactly what’s going to go down in Westeros.



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Sophie Turner Might Have Just Dropped a Major Clue About Sansa Stark's Fate on 'Game of Thrones'


Tomorrow (Sunday, April 14), the eighth and final season of the global phenomenon that is Game of Thrones will begin airing—and we’ll finally start to get some answers about how the heck this thing is actually going to end. In the meantime, even the more casual fans like myself have taken to analyzing the frames of whatever footage HBO sees fit to release, not to mention deep-diving the promotional interviews the cast has given for hints. Hey, you have to look for clues where you can with this show—after all, its cast and creators are famously tight-lipped about revealing spoilers.

Take Sophie Turner‘s recent interview with Entertainment Weekly: Is she perhaps leaving us clues to Sansa Stark’s fate? When asked about her character’s storyline for the upcoming season, Turner had this to say: “Sansa this season is very much enjoying becoming a leader in her own right and the leader of Winterfell, and this year there are certain challenges of people who come into her life that threaten that. She has to go behind a few backs and risks tearing apart her family.”

It already seemed pretty clear that Daenerys (and her dragons) would present at least one of those challenges. Co-star Emilia Clarke, who plays the powerful character, has also hinted at tension between the two characters.

Turner also almost seems to confirm a popular fan theory about Sansa and Jon Snow: “Her [Sansa’s] relationship with Jon [Snow] is struggling because he’s so clearly in love with Daenerys and believes in her completely. Sansa thinks she’s power-hungry and not the rightful queen. There’s a huge amount of fighting between Sansa and Jon.”

Plus, Sansa doesn’t exactly love the idea of having dragons around. “She’s not happy because she’s going to have to feed these dragons,” Turner says. “They require a lot of food, and they have limited resources.”

This all sounds pretty ominous—especially because we know that no character, big or small, is ever safe on Game of Thrones. It’s Turner’s quote about going behind a few backs that sounds like a clue that she might either go all the way to the Iron Throne or die because she betrays someone close to her. And as Cersei Lannister famously says in season one, “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”



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'Riverdale' Season 2 Episode 1 Recap: Fred Andrews' Fate Is Finally Revealed


Today’s the day! The sun is shining! And Riverdale is finally, finally back! Tonight’s episode was a doozy, to say the least. We learned more about Fred Andrews’ shooting, plus Bughead and Varchie turned up the heat. So let’s just dive into the details, because I know that’s what you care about. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

We open the episode with a pretentious voiceover from Jughead. I forgot how much I disliked his beanie until this exact moment. Anyway, Archie—who is better than Jughead, don’t @ me—doesn’t have a license but is driving his father, Fred, to the hospital because, remember, Fred was shot. Whether or not he lives or dies is still a mystery, but a psycho dream about Fred missing Archie’s graduation makes me think it’s bad news.

Pan to Betty, who’s awkwardly telling her mother (Alice) about her almost-sex with Jughead, whom Alice loathes. Alice makes some shady remarks about the Southside Serpents, which I love because I’m not Team Jughead. Meanwhile, Veronica is drinking the champagne her mother got for her father because she’s a queen. Their fun is interrupted, though, when Archie calls them—and Jughead—about Fred’s shooting. There’s a shot of Jughead dramatically hopping onto a motorcycle and rushing to the hospital, which is just ludicrous. Who is he? The Dark Knight?

At the hospital, Archie tells his friends about the shooting; he feels guilty, but Jughead makes him feel better by calling him “Pure Heart the Hero,” which is cringe-worthy. My new favorite character, Alice, gives Jughead the stink eye at the hospital and insinuates the South Side Serpents had something to do with Fred’s shooting. Archie calls his mom—Molly Effing Ringwald—to tell her the news.

The salt-and-pepper snack sheriff (Kevin’s dad) pulls Archie aside to get more information about the shooter. Jughead tags along because he’s nosy and lives for the drama. When the sheriff insinuates a South Side Serpent did the deed, Jughead flips out. The sheriff asks Archie what the assailant did after shooting his father; Archie hesitates, like he knows something, but doesn’t say anything. Jughead catches onto this fuckery and suggests the shooter’s motive wasn’t just robbery. Jughead asks Archie why he hesitated to tell the sheriff the full story, and he says it’s because he thinks one of the South Side Serpents who worked for Fred could’ve done something. Jughead agrees to check this out, because of course he does.

In another weird almost-death dream, Fred has visions of his dead relatives literally knocking on his trailer to take him to the afterlife. These are eerie, and I want them to stop.

Veronica’s shook because she doesn’t know how to deal with Archie being sad. She can only handle him when he’s, like, hot and shirtless. They leave the hospital together to get Archie some non-blood-splattered clothes, and Veronica’s uneasy about how to handle the situation.

The first thing Archie wants to do when he gets home is walk his dog. He doesn’t want to change his bloody clothes. He just wants to walk his damn dog. Veronica’s creeped out, but goes along with this anyway.

Meanwhile, Jughead confronts the South Side Serpents about what Archie told him at the hospital. They agree to look into it, but who the hell cares about this because minutes later Veronica gets naked and hops in the shower with Archie. (!!!) Keep in mind that Archie is washing his father’s blood off his skin. And Veronica’s turned on! This isn’t hot! This is deranged! WTF kind of vampire shit are Archie and Veronica into?!

Betty tells Kevin that Jughead told her he loves her—and that she said it back. Kevin, the genius he is, tells Betty she needs to stay far away from Jughead because he’s a South Side Serpent. I mean, I get that’s the logical reason to stay away, but I think Betty should ditch Jughead just because he’s insufferable and wears beanies.

Then, Chery Blossom shows up in the hospital looking bomb AF and spews some lies about how a candle started the fire at Thornhill. (Remember, she torched her house in a rage last season!) Her mother is burned really badly and is rushed into a hospital room; Cheryl hovers in the hallway and smiles, looking iconic, as per usual.

Meanwhile, post-sex, Archie flips out on Veronica for losing Fred’s wallet—which she didn’t even do. Archie’s just being a jerk. Archie tells her to leave, but because Veronica’s a saint she refuses and instead comforts him as he cries into her arms. It’s tender. OK, Archie’s back in my good graces.

The salt-and-pepper snack sheriff makes Archie pick from a line-up of masked robbers, which seems like a pointless exercise. These men…are wearing masks, and Archie saw the shooter for a split second. How could he possibly identify someone? This is dumb, but they’re doing lots of close-up shots of Archie’s beautiful eyes, so I’m fine.

Jughead goes on a convoluted rant about how it’s “entirely conceivable” Fred’s shooting was intentional. Veronica asks Jughead and Betty to go to Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe to look for Fred’s wallet. They go. I’m bored.

Veronica insinuates that her mother could’ve shot Fred because she has a motive: She knew Hiram Lodge and Fred wouldn’t get along, and because Fred wouldn’t sell his half of his construction company to them, it’d be easier if he was gone.

But good news: Fred Andrews is stable! Archie goes to his hospital room and starts saying positive things in the hopes he’ll wake up. Fred has another scary death dream. Wow, they’re dragging this out.

Pop, who owns Pop’s Chock’lit Shop, tells Betty and Jughead that he doesn’t think the assailant was a robber. Betty confronts Jughead about joining the South Side Serpents; he says he isn’t going to join and says that he’s moving into F.P.’s trailer—not with his foster parents. He wants to wear F.P.’s jacket and ride his motorcycle and live in his trailer to be close to him. Betty’s worried. I’m worried. The bottle of water I just finished is worried. Betty doesn’t want him to get hurt, which is understandable. Side note: Why am I so bored by their relationship?

Cheryl goes full-on Baby Jane and threatens to kill her mother if she tells anyone the truth about the fire. It’s a really creepy scene, but I love Cheryl and would jump off a cliff for her. Yas, queen. Read your awful mom for filth! You look so good!

Archie tells his friends that he was paralyzed with fear when the assailant shot Fred. He just got on his knees in the moment and closed his eyes until he heard the shooter leave Pop’s—so it’s totally possible this guy nabbed Fred’s wallet. Archie’s ashamed, but he honestly needs to go easy on himself.

Then Archie walks in on Cheryl creepily kissing Fred on the forehead. She says she’s giving him the kiss of life, which would sound weird coming from anyone but Cheryl. Again, Cheryl can do no wrong.

Oof! Another psycho-death dream. This time it’s Veronica in that wedding dress, which explains all those photos that leaked a few months ago. Minutes later, Fred wakes up…unsurprisingly.

Betty comes around and tells Jughead she’s cool with him “exploring” the South Side Serpents if it’ll make him feel closer to his dad. This is a horrible idea. My evidence? The bloodied-and-beaten dude the Serpents interrogated in F.P.’s trailer about Fred’s shooting! These guys are bad guys! Take your beanie and run, Jughead!

Veronica comes home, and guess who’s waiting for her?! Her father, Hiram Lodge, who eerily says it’s “disrespectful” that she wasn’t there to greet him. Her dad is hot. This family is hot. Veronica shadily tells her parents that Fred Andrews woke up and saunters off.

Holy shit! Ms. Grundy is back! And she’s making out with another student! Also, WTF again! But Fred’s shooter is now killing Ms. Grundy! Who is this guy?! This is literally how the episode ends, and I just can’t.

Parting thoughts: This show is so goddamn magnificent. I’ve missed you, Riverdale.

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