maisie williams played ned stark's wife in game of thrones.
maisie williams played ned stark's wife in game of thrones.
who played ned stark's wife in game of thrones?
maisie williams
the episode was widely praised by critics and cited as one of the best of the series. rotten tomatoes, a prominent review aggregator, surveyed 21 reviews of the installment and judged 100% of them to be positive with an average score of 9.9 out of 10. the website's critical consensus reads, "the most unforgettable episode of game of thrones thus far, 'the rains of castamere' (or as it shall forever be known, 'the red wedding') packs a dramatic wallop that feels as exquisitely shocking as it does ultimately inevitable." the majority of the comments were directed at the massacre at the end of the episode, where praise was especially given to michelle fairley's performance, leading to the disappointment of many critics when she was not nominated for the primetime emmy award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for the 65th primetime emmy awards. ign's matt fowler gave the episode a perfect 10/10, calling it "an exquisitely awful event that managed to out-do the unpredictable and horrifying death of ned stark back in season 1". fowler also said he believed that the episode's depiction of the red wedding was more powerful than its depiction in "a song of ice and fire".
the rains of castamere
in a review of the "game of thrones" tv episode "baelor", james poniewozik wrote in "time" that "the execution of eddard stark is crucial to the story and its themes and everything that follows, but it's also a meta-message to the reader: don't take anything for granted here". james hibberd of "entertainment weekly" stated that tricking the audience into thinking ned is the hero and then killing him makes the series' story better. writing that "the big twist here isn't that ned stark dies, but who the true protagonists of "game of thrones" are", hibberd pointed out that the series' focus proves to be the "new generation" of leaders, in particular the stark children but also daenerys and even tyrion. he noted:
ned stark