Recap: 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Episode 8 is Gonna Take You To The 'Hardhome'

This week’s “Game of Thrones,” “Hardhome,” is a definitive turn from the last couple of episodes. As the pen-penultimate episode of Season 5, ‘GoT’ turns the action on hard with the help of Wildlings, White Walkers, and Night’s Watch in the North. But director Miguel Sapochnik and writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss keeps the pots stirring in other lands, checking in on our main characters, who are forging new alliances, trapped in dungeons, and learning new trades. It’s a doozy of an episode, so let’s jump right in.

Meereen
Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) and Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) are standing before Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) because they have got some serious ‘splainin to do. Tyrion makes his case to Dany, including in his bonafides that killed both of his parents, which in any other place wouldn't be a plus, but then he also negs her, saying he’s not even sure he wants to work for her, anyway. She puts him on the spot, asking him to give advice about what to do with...