The Mummer's Farce

With teasers and a trailer (maybe the only one) for season 8 of Game of Thrones out in the wild, it's time for Kate and Dan to get back on the mics and play some bingo. No seriously, we made bingo boards with our predictions for season 8 and you should too. Come listen to speculation about whether the Night King will speak, if Bran will become a tree or a dragon, and how the truth about Kinvara's past will be revealed (spoiler: it won't). Check out our Twitter account to see images of our full bingo cards @mummersfarcepod!

The Mummer's Farce returns for a hot minute (er 48) to talk about all the news that's been firmed up over the past 6 months around potential Game of Thrones spin-off shows and the final season of the main series. Join our intrepid mysterious socialites, Kate and Dan, as they sift through the most salient details and even read a few excerpts from *gasp* internet comment sections. We've still got some time to wait until Season 8 begins, so pull up a chair as we collectively wonder about fan demand for a return of Thoros of Myr and other hot button issues.

It's the final pre-hiatus episode of The Mummer's Farce as Kate, Dan, and the rest of the world sit tight in anticipation of Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Here our hosts dig into final season gossip and lay out their predictions for the wars to come. The return of Daario? Cersei the ice queen? Kinvara joins with Young Griff to ride ice spiders against the zombie hordes? All are likely. There's also a look back at this very podcast and what the future of TMF could behold. Tune in for one of those bittersweet endings you've heard so much about!

Kate and Dan wrap-up Spring Break this week with planning some future travel plans. Where shall we go and who should we bring? Perhaps we should set sail with Davos or go off galavanting with Bronn. Flying first class with Dany would certainly have some perks. Or maybe we should all just take it easy and go on a cruise with Gilly. Wherever you choose, just don't let Stannis drive; dude will follow bad GPS directions right into a lake.

Spring Break continues on The Mummer's Farce as Kate and Dan detail the best and worst moments of adaptation from George R.R. Martin's source material across seasons 4-6 of Game of Thrones. And yes, much to everyone's surprise, there are moments where the showrunners have shifted the trajectory of certain storylines and added new original characters than genuinely benefit the plot. That said, don't expect Dorne to get off the hook so easily.

Grab some margars and join The Mummer's Farce as the pod embarks upon Spring Break for the next 3 weeks in celebration another trio of Game of Thrones seasons on the books. For starters, Kate and Dan pick their favorite episodes from seasons 4-6. Will the winner be a big spectacle piece like Battle of the Bastards? Or perhaps a quieter, gorgeously staged Michele MacLaren episode? If it's not too much of a giveaway, I'm pretty sure neither host says the word "Dorne."

Hachi machi is there a lot to talk about in the explosive conclusion to Game of Thrones season 6, where revenge is served like it's going out of style. Jon attends a very violent Woodstock festival, Daario gets dumped so he can he can run Meereen's special elections committee, and Cersei stays home from church. Elsewhere, Bran touches yet another tree, Arya bakes a pie, and pretty much every main character except for Brienne gets to do something. Maybe next year, Brienne!

It's time to get matters sorted before the big finish to season 6, so let's go back to Riverrun apparently. Hey, at least it gives Jaime something to do and you can't go wrong with more Blackfish. The Hound returns with a vengeance and Jon and Sansa hit the road to play some pretty rough sets. Arya's story in Braavos also very messily wraps up, and most surprisingly, Jaqen tells her, "Now you are truly Toeman;" whatever that means.

Game of Thrones gets a shot in the arm in its sixth season with a Bran-heavy episode of all things, We're as surprised as you are. Elsewhere in this pair of mid-season excursions directed by series newcomer Jack Bender, Arya takes in a play, Yara and Theon attend the kingsmoot and get the king's boot, and Sansa has apparently been sewing like her life depends on it (maybe it does). Also we meet Kinvara, the very definitely important character in Meereen that will certainly have a wide-reaching impact on the saga of ice and fire. We are quite sure about this so keep your eyes and ears open for more Kinvara in the seasons to come.

The overall quality of season 6 tilts upward in this pair of episodes from GoT rookie Daniel Sackheim. Or perhaps the show has just resettled into a new normal. Either way, Our Heroes are reborn in these two episodes, signaling the start of the endgame. Arya gets a training montage, Bran's training is slow going, and Robin Arryn's training is halted when Littlefinger shows up with a cool bird. There's honestly too many character check-ins to rattle them off here, so listen in and grab those frequent flier miles*.

*Frequent flier miles good for all Westerosi destinations except Dorne. Don't go to Dorne.