Vox.com Culture Editor Todd VanDerWerff joins Winter Is Coming's Rowan Kaiser to discuss critical perception of the fourth season, the potential for greatness or disaster in the fifth, and the joys of Mark Addy.

Critics On The Throne episode 1: Todd VanDerWerff

Welcome to the second episode of Critics on the Throne, this time starring freelance writer Laura Hudson. Hudson has written about Game of Thrones primarily for Wired, and is also a member of the Council of Editors for the Game of Thrones Compendium.

In this episode, we talk about how Laura was picked for the Compendium; comparisons between the adaptations of GOT and The Walking Dead; the strengths of the Telltale adventure game and how it "got" us once again; whether Cersei's playing the same game as Varys and Littlefinger; the advantages and disadvantages of short-term thinking; and who we want to see winning the Game of Thrones.

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