It's time to look back at season 2.

It's our end-of-season special. Just before Christmas 2020, we spoke to the lovely Sam (@kinda_cool, voice of undead Viserion and undead Ned Umber, presenter of Cry Wolf Pod & featured in the Burlington Bar videos). In the second half of this two-parter interview, we went deep on season 8 and found out just what Sam thought of those final six episodes.

It's the season two finale! Several characters go beyond the point of no return, we finally get some pay-off on Chekhov's Horn, and Theon really hasn't taken to the sound of the vuvuzela, even 11 years after the World Cup in South Africa. It's all happening.

It's the one you've all been waiting for since the start of season 2: it's time for the Battle of Blackwater. Tasked with breaking this episode up into parts so we could discuss it chronologically, Rob found this one particularly tricky to organise, but we got there in the end. It's time for one of Game of Thrones' classics.

The tumbleweed drifts through Qarth this week as 'The Prince of Winterfell' takes (what Gandalf would call) "the deep breath before the plunge". Jaime and Brienne are sent off on their journey to King's Landing; Jon Snow is introduced to the Lord of Bones beyond the Wall, while Sam and company find some dragonglass; Theon might not have killed Bran & Rickon after all; and Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie finally escape Harrenhal after a terrible few weeks there.

On this episode of The Longest Night, we take a look at season 2, episode 7 of Game of Thrones, entitled 'A Man Without Honor'. Characters across the map are running out of time, becoming obsessed with their legacies and reputations as the net closes and the clock ticks down.

Hey there, friends - we're back! Normal service is resumed after the first half of our lovely interview with the wonderful Sam went live during the week. What have we returned to? Well, there's a doings a transpirin' in King's Landing as the population fight back against the royal family; Winterfell plays host to some of its finest ever scenes as Theon takes the castle for the Grejoys; and Jon Snow endangers the safety of his opponent with reckless behaviour beyond the Wall.

Hello again, everyone. Welcome back to The Longest Night. This week, it's 'The Ghost of Harrenhal'. Arya and Tywin have their very first sparring match; there's snow falling on Snow in the farthest north while Sam says he's read something in a book; and there's shadow demons lurking about in the Stormlands. Oh, and the loquacious farmers are back with their petty complaints!

We're back! And it's time for nauseous dread! It's time for our first visit to Harrenhal, so strap yourselves to a rat-filled bucket for the best time of your life. We've got legs getting sawn off, we've got heads being hammered onto spikes, and we've got demon shadow babies. Game of Thrones takes its first big steps into pure magical fantasy, but there's always got to be a dark twist, hasn't there?