Your Ultimate Guide to BingeWatching Every Game of Thrones Episode
Warning This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. The premiere of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is only 57 days away, which means that there's just enough time to catch up on  or rewatch  every single episode of the show before its final run. That is, if you can manage to fit in at least one episode per day. Getting through 67 Game of Thrones episodes in a little over two months may seem like a daunting task, but TIME is here to make your binge-watching journey as smooth as possible. Since Feb. 6  exactly 67 days before the premiere of Game of Thrones season 8  we've been updating this post with everything you need to know about that day's assigned episode. MORE Game of Thrones Season 8 Premiere Date What We Know So Far, From a recap to an analysis of each installment's most significant scene, we'll provide a rundown of the essential details from every Game of Thrones episode ahead of the series' April 14 return. Now, that's not to say that some viewers won't have different opinions about the episode's winner or most memorable quote. This is just one lens through which fans can examine everything leading up to Game of Thrones season 8. Check out TIME's guide to binge-watching Game of Thrones one day at a time below. "Winter Is Coming", The death of Jon Arryn John Standing, who serves as the Hand of the King, brings King Robert Baratheon Mark Addy and the Lannister clan north to visit the Starks at Winterfell. It doesn't take long for things to sour once the royal entourage arrives. From the moment Robert demands to pay his respects to Ned Stark's Sean Bean late sister, Lyanna Aisling Franciosi, in the crypts, it's clear there are some unresolved issues between the three families  something that becomes even more obvious when Jaime Lannister Nikolaj Coster-Waldau pushes Bran Stark Isaac Hempstead Wright out of a window for walking in on him with his twin sister, Cersei Lena Headey. Meanwhile, the White Walkers make their presence known beyond the Wall, while across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen Emilia Clarke is given three dragon eggs at her wedding to Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo Jason Momoa. Robert Baratheon, Ned Stark to Catelyn Stark Michelle Fairley about Bran Stark "He won't be a boy forever. And, winter is coming.", The White Walkers terrorize three Night's Watch rangers on a scouting mission beyond the Wall. "The Kingsroad", Although Jon Snow Kit Harington  who we currently know as the illegitimate son of Ned and a random, unknown woman  was introduced in the pilot, his storyline doesn't really pick up until the second episode. After gifting his half-sister Arya Maisie Williams with a small sword that she dubs "Needle," Jon leaves for the Wall  a 700-foot tall, 300-foot thick barrier of ice that spans all 300 miles of Westeros' northern border  with his Uncle Benjen Joseph Mawle and Tyrion Lannister Peter Dinklage. He intends to join the Night's Watch, an order of men who guard the Wall and protect the Seven Kingdoms from invaders. But first, he makes one last unsuccessful attempt to question Ned about the identity of his mother ahead of Ned's departure for King's Landing. While traveling south with their father, Arya and Sansa Stark Sophie Turner find themselves in the midst of an altercation with Prince Joffrey Baratheon Jack Gleeson that leads to the deaths of both Arya's friend Mycah Rhodri Hosking, the butcher's boy, and Sansa's direwolf, Lady. Luckily, Arya is able to set her own direwolf, Nymeria, loose in the wild before any harm can come to her. Elsewhere, Daenerys finds a way to connect with her new husband and Bran wakes up from the coma he has been in for over a month. Bran's direwolf, Summer, Ned Stark to Jon Snow "You may not have my name, but you have my blood.", A hired assassin carrying a Valyrian steel dagger attempts to kill a comatose Bran but is thwarted by Catelyn and Summer. "Lord Snow", In the early days of her arranged marriage, Daenerys is repeatedly raped by her husband a storyline that led to much controversy. But as she and Drogo develop mutual respect and admiration for one another, Dany begins to come into her own as Khaleesi  a development that upsets her older brother Viserys Harry Lloyd  and discovers that she is pregnant with Drogo's son. , Following Ned's first Small Council meeting as Hand of the King, he learns that Catelyn has snuck into King's Landing to show him the dagger that the catspaw assassin tried to use on Bran  a reveal that leads Master of Coin Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish Aidan Gillen to claim he recognizes the blade as one he lost to Tyrion in a bet. As for the Stark kids, Jon starts to understand the harsh reality of serving in the Night's Watch when he realizes that, unlike him, most of the recruits are untrained criminals who were forced into service, while Arya, who has no desire to become a "proper" lady, begins training with master Braavosi swordsman Syrio Forel Miltos Yerolemou and Bran struggles to come to terms with being paralyzed from the waist down. Arya Stark, Cersei Lannister to Joffrey Baratheon "Everyone who isn't us, is an enemy.", Old Nan Margaret John tells Bran about a dark and terrible winter known as the Long Night, foreshadowing the return of the White Walkers. , "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things", In King's Landing, Ned discovers one of Robert's illegitimate children while he's investigating the death of Jon Arryn. Separately, Sansa learns that Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane Conan Stevens is the one responsible for his brother and Joffrey's personal bodyguard Sandor "The Hound" Clegane's Rory McCann disfigured face, a detail that foreshadows the horrific cruelties that the Mountain is capable of inflicting on others. , Tensions continue to rise between Daenerys and Viserys upon their arrival in the holy Dothraki city of Vaes Dothrak, leading Dany to stand up to her brother for the first time. Farther north, Jon Snow helps Samwell Tarly John Bradley adjust to life at the Wall and Catelyn performs a citizen's arrest on Tyrion for Bran's attempted murder. Daenerys Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen to Viserys Targaryen "The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands.", Ned discovers that Gendry Joe Dempsie, the smith's apprentice that Jon Arryn was seen visiting shortly before his death, is Robert's illegitimate son. , "The Wolf and the Lion", After arriving in the Vale with Tyrion as her prisoner, Catelyn is concerned to find that her sister Lysa Kate Dickie  the late Jon Arryn's wife  seems to have lost her grip on reality. Lysa fled to the Vale following Jon's death and has been hiding out in the Eyrie since with their 6-year-old son Robin, who she obsessively dotes over. Lysa proceeds to lock Tyrion in one of the Eyrie's menacing "sky cells" after accusing him of conspiring to murder her husband. , But most of the episode's action really takes place in King's Landing, where Ned renounces his role as Hand of the King after learning that Robert has ordered a hit on Daenerys and her unborn child. But that's just the beginning of Ned's woes. Littlefinger takes him to visit the last person that Jon Arryn spoke to before he died  a prostitute whose baby daughter is another one of Robert's illegitimate children  and Ned is ambushed by Jaime Lannister and his men. A confrontation ensues over Tyrion's arrest. It ends with the slaughter of Ned's guards and Ned himself getting stabbed in the leg with a spear. Jaime Lannister, Robert Baratheon to Cersei Lannister about Lyanna Stark "I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind.", Robert and Cersei discuss their marriage, a union that has held the realm together but left them both miserable. Cersei asks Robert about Lyanna Stark for the first time in 17 years, leading him to reveal that his feelings for Lyanna prevented him from ever even trying to love Cersei. , "A Golden Crown", After Bran wakes up from a dream about a three-eyed raven  a recurring figure in his subconscious  he ventures out into the woods with his older brother Robb Richard Madden and Stark ward Theon Greyjoy Alfie Allen where they're attacked by four wildlings. Robb and Theon kill the three men in the group and take the woman, Osha Natalia Tena, as a prisoner. At the Eyrie, Tyrion demands a trial by combat after realizing he has no chance of being judged fairly. A sellsword named Bronn Jerome Flynn agrees to fight for him and defeats Lysa's champion, allowing Tyrion to walk free. In King's Landing, Ned awakens to Robert demanding that he resume his duties as Hand of the King before informing him that he's leaving for a hunting trip. Later, thanks to Sansa, Ned finally comes to the realization that Joffrey is actually the son of Cersei and Jaime  not Cersei and Robert. Over in Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys declares her unborn son to be the Stallion Who Mounts the World after completing the sacred task of eating a raw horse heart. When a drunken Viserys shows his true colors by threatening to cut the child out of her womb, she allows Khal Drogo to pour a pot of molten gold on her brother's head, killing him. Khal Drogo, Daenerys Targaryen about Viserys Targaryen "He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon.", Ned pieces together everything he has learned during his time in King's Landing to figure out the truth about Joffrey's parentage. "You Win or You Die", Following his introduction at the Lannister army's camp in the Riverlands, Tywin Lannister Charles Dance sends Jaime  who fled King's Landing after attacking Ned  to lay siege to Riverrun, Catelyn's childhood home and the seat of House Tully. At Castle Black, the day begins with Benjen's horse returning without him from beyond the Wall and only gets worse for Jon when he is assigned to be Lord Commander Mormont's James Cosmo personal steward rather than a ranger like his he has always dreamed. But after Sam suggests that he was given the job so that the Lord Commander can groom him for command, Jon decides to go through with swearing his Night's Watch vows. Despite receiving a pardon that would allow him to return to the Seven Kingdoms, Jorah Mormont Iain Glen, who has clearly come to deeply admire Daenerys, prevents an assassination attempt on the khaleesi that was orchestrated by King Robert. An enraged Khal Drogo then vows to cross the Narrow Sea with his khalasar to conquer Westeros for his unborn son. , The saga in King's Landing continues with Ned confronting a defiant Cersei with his newly acquired knowledge of her children's true parentage. But when Robert's brother Renly Gethin Anthony returns to the Red Keep to inform Ned that Robert was gored by a wild boar while hunting, things quickly spin out of control. A dying Robert asks Ned to write a letter declaring himself Lord Protector of the Realm until Joffrey  or as Ned writes, Robert's "rightful heir"  comes of age. Ned then tries to ensure that Robert's brother Stannis Stephen Dillane will be the one to ascend the Iron Throne by sending him a letter detailing his findings about the Lannisters. However, his attempt to do the honorable thing backfires when Littlefinger betrays him to the Lannisters, allowing Joffrey to lay claim to the throne. Cersei Lannister, Cersei Lannister to Ned Stark "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.", Littlefinger betrays Ned when he is summoned to the throne room following Robert's death and secures Joffrey's succession. , "The Pointy End", After receiving a letter from Sansa urging him to pledge fealty to King Joffrey  a scheme that Cersei orchestrated  Robb calls on the Starks' bannerman to head south to war with the Lannisters. He later reunites with Catelyn in the Neck and sends a captured Lannister scout to tell Tywin that 20,000 Northern troops are marching on the Lannister army  which has been joined by Tyrion, Bronn and a group of hill tribesman. Jon and Sam return from the weirwood grove north of the Wall where they took their Night's Watch vows with the bodies of two men who were members of Benjen's ranging party. That night, Jon saves Lord Commander Mormont's life by throwing an oil lamp at the reanimated corpse of one of the dead rangers to set it on fire  an incident that alerts the Lord Commander to the growing threat of the White Walkers. After Khal Drogo's khalasar raids a Lhazareen village, Daenerys claims several of the women as her own to protect them and angers many of the Dothraki warriors. When one of the riders confronts Drogo about his wife's defiance, the Khal kills him but is injured in the process. Daenerys calls upon one of the women she saved, a healer named Mirri Maz Duur Mia Soteriou, to tend to his chest wound despite the Dothraki's hesitance to trust a "witch.", After her father is taken prisoner by the Lannisters, Arya avoids capture with the help of Syrio, who sacrifices his life for her. Joffrey names Tywin as the new Hand of the King and dismisses the long-serving Ser Barristan Selmy Ian McElhinney as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard in favor of Jaime. Sansa comes forward to beg for her father's life and Joffrey tells her he will spare Ned if he confesses to treason. After receiving a letter from Sansa urging him to pledge fealty to King Joffrey  a scheme the Cersei orchestrated  Robb calls on the Starks' bannerman to head south to war with the Lannisters. He later reunites with Catelyn in the Neck and sends a captured Lannister scout to tell Tywin that 20,000 Northern troops are marching on the Lannister army  which Tyrion, Bronn and a group of hill tribesman have all joined. Jon and Sam return from the weirwood grove north of the Wall where they took their Night's Watch vows with the bodies of two men who were members of Benjen's ranging party. That night, Jon saves Lord Commander Mormont's life by throwing an oil lamp at the reanimated corpse of one of the dead rangers to set it on fire  an incident that alerts the Lord Commander to the growing threat of the White Walkers. After Khal Drogo's khalasar raids a Lhazareen village, Daenerys claims several of the women as her own to protect them and angers many of the Dothraki warriors. When one of the riders confronts Drogo about Dany's defiance, the Khal kills him but is injured in the process. Daenerys calls upon one of the women she saved, a healer named Mirri Maz Duur Mia Soteriou, to tend to his chest wound despite the Dothraki's hesitance to trust a "witch.", , After her father is taken prisoner by the Lannisters, Arya avoids capture with the help of Syrio, who sacrifices his life for her. Joffrey names Tywin as the new Hand of the King and dismisses the long-serving Ser Barristan Selmy Ian McElhinney as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard in favor of Jaime. Sansa comes forward to beg for her father's life and Joffrey tells her he will spare Ned if he confesses to treason. Robb Stark, Syrio Forel and Arya Stark "What do we say to the god of death? Not today.", Daenerys asks the witch Mirri Maz Duur to heal Khal Drogo after he is wounded in a fight to the death with one of his riders. , "Baelor", The hour that established each season's penultimate episode as something that fans both eagerly await and outright dread culminates with Joffrey executing Ned in spite of his false confession of treason. Things don't go so well for Daenerys either, who goes into labor just as Mirri Maz Duur begins performing a blood magic ritual that she claims will save Khal Drogo's life but there's a catch  it must be paid for with the life of another. But there are some bright spots leading up to the bad. At the Lannister camp, Tyrion connects on a deeper level with a prostitute named Shae Sibel Kekilli. Tyrion tells her about the complicated relationship he has with his father and she comforts him before he heads into battle. Tywin has ordered him to fight in the vanguard alongside the hill tribesman, an assignment that Tyrion sees as a suicide mission. With his army stuck at a crossroads literally, Robb agrees to marry one of Walder Frey's David Bradley daughters in exchange for passage across the river at the Twins. He then successfully outmaneuvers the Lannisters by sending 2,000 of his troops to divert Tywin while he and the other 18,000 capture Jaime at Riverrun. At the Wall, Lord Commander Mormont gives Jon a Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw, to thank him for saving his life. But Jon finds himself struggling to reconcile his love for his family with his commitment to the Night's Watch after news of his father's imprisonment and Robb's campaign south reaches Castle Black. His predicament prompts Maester Aemon Peter Vaughan to reveal that he is actually Aemon Targaryen, an uncle of Aerys "The Mad King" Targaryen David Rintoul who remained at the Wall when the Targaryens were slaughtered during Robert's rebellion. Ultimately, this episode served as a warning that, in the world of Game of Thrones, no character  no matter how beloved by fans  is safe. Joffrey Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon about Ned Stark "Ser Ilyn, bring me his head!", King Joffrey orders the executioner Ser Ilyn Payne Wilko Johnson to chop off Ned's head despite promising to show mercy if Ned confessed to treason. "Fire and Blood", Ned is dead and word is spreading across the Seven Kingdoms. After the tragic news reaches the Stark camp, the Northmen decide to back neither Stannis nor Renly Baratheon's claim to the throne and instead declare Robb the King in the North. Meanwhile, Tywin orders Tyrion to return to King's Landing to act as Hand of the King and keep Joffrey in check while Tywin himself regroups with what's left of the Lannister army at Harrenhal. He orders Tyrion to leave Shae behind  a command that Tyrion defies. Disguised as a boy, Arya joins up with a group of Night's Watch recruits, including Robert's illegitimate son Gendry, who are headed north to the Wall, while Sansa remains in King's Landing as Cersei and Joffrey's prisoner. After learning of his father's death, Jon attempts to desert the Night's Watch in order to join Robb's army but Sam, Grenn Mark Stanley and Pyp Josef Altin convince him to stay. The next day, Lord Commander Mormont asks Jon to ride out with him on a ranging mission beyond the Wall and prove his loyalty to the Watch. Daenerys wakes from giving birth to learn that her son was both stillborn and horribly disfigured. She asks to be taken to Khal Drogo to see what she paid for with her son's life and finds her husband in a vegetative state. She later smothers Drogo with a pillow to put him out of his misery and orders Jorah to tie Mirri Maz Duur to the funeral pyre  on which Dany also places her three dragon eggs  as punishment for her betrayal. Daenerys sets the pyre alight and walks fearlessly into the flames. Hours later, Jorah and the remaining Dothraki watch in awe as an unburnt Daenerys rises from the ashes with three newly-hatched dragons. The Mother of Dragons has officially arrived. Daenerys Targaryen, Mirri Maz Duur to Daenerys Targaryen "When the sun rises in the west, sets in the east. When the seas go dry, when the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.", Daenerys emerges unscathed from a massive inferno with her three newborn dragons. "The North Remembers", As the fallout from Ned Stark's death continues to echo throughout the Seven Kingdoms, the War of the Five Kings, the central conflict of season 2, gets underway. It quickly becomes clear that Joffrey's penchant for cruelty is only growing when he sentences the bumbling Ser Dontos Hollard Tony Way to die during his own name day tournament. Luckily, Sansa, who is slowly learning how to play the game of court life, is able to convince Joffrey to make Dontos his fool rather than kill him. After arriving in King's Landing, Tyrion interrupts a small council meeting to throw his promotion to Hand of the King in Cersei's face, but he's dismayed to learn that Arya has escaped and left the Lannisters with only Sansa to trade for the still-captive Jaime. At Winterfell, Osha, who has become Bran's caretaker of sorts, questions him about the strange and prophetic dreams he has been having before telling him that the mysterious red comet streaking across the sky means that dragons have returned. Cue Daenerys' first scene of the new season, which sees the Mother of Dragons heading east across the Red Waste with the remaining members of her khalasar. , Beyond the Wall, Jon Snow and the rest of Lord Commander Mormont's ranging party arrive at Craster's Keep, where Jon bristles at Craster's Robert Pugh rudeness and abusive habit of marrying his daughters. Craster tells the Lord Commander that the King-Beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder is assembling an army of wildlings. On the island of Dragonstone, the Red Priestess Melisandre Carice van Houten names Stannis the Lord of Light's chosen one, a prophesied savior in the religion of R'hllor who is the reincarnation of legendary hero Azor Ahai and is destined to lead mankind against a darkness. Stannis sends out a letter to all the high lords of Westeros announcing his claim to the throne and proclaiming Joffrey  as well as Cersei and Jaime's younger two children, Myrcella Aimee Richardson and Tommen Callum Wharry  to be the product of incest. After he gets the letter, Robb sends Theon to Pyke in hopes of forming an alliance with Theon's father, Balon Greyjoy Patrick Malahide, and Catelyn south in hopes of forming one with Renly. Meanwhile, following the letter's arrival in King's Landing, the City Watch murders all of King Robert's illegitimate children. When they can't find Gendry, who is still en route to the Wall as a Night's Watch recruit, the Gold Cloaks torture master armorer Tobho Mott Andrew Wilde to learn his former apprentice's whereabouts. It seems that Joffrey is turning out to be exactly the type of king everyone thought he would be. Melisandre, Melisandre "For the night is dark and full of terrors.", Melisandre proclaims Stannis to be the Lord of Light's chosen warrior, a.k.a. The Prince That Was Promised a.k.a. the reincarnation of Azor Ahai.