The Game Revealed: Go behind the scenes of Episodes 607 and 608 (Video)

HBO continues to release segments in The Game Revealed, its five-part docuseries about the making of Game of Thrones Season 6. This most recent one deals with the two episodes directed by Mark Mylod: “The Broken Man” and “No One.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL8DBHIJoLE

That initial bit where Rory McCann (the Hound) is furiously mining chopping wood is worth the price of admission by itself, but let’s make note of some of the other interesting bits.

• I completely see where supervising art director Paul Ghirardani is coming from when he says that the team wanted to make Riverrun “a little bit more fairy tale.” It’s one of the most striking locations in the show’s history, and with a working drawbridge, no less. It’s also cool that production designer Deborah Riley was aware of the strategic nature of Riverrun’s location, what with being able to create a moat for itself by drawing from the two nearby rivers.
• I didn’t really like the long scene in “No One” where Tyrion, Missandei, and Grey Worm tell each other jokes, but I get that it came from wanting the characters to build more of a rapport. At least the actors were enjoying themselves.
• Mylod on the siege at Riverrun: “It is that synthesis of the epic and the intimate that is so beguiling.” That’s a nice way of putting it. I think the siege at Riverrun was a little hard to get into simply because we hadn’t seen many of those characters in years, but the whole thing was very well done.
• Mylod has a way with words in general. Points for describing the relationship between Jaime and Brienne as “the most reluctant love story in history.”
• Props to Maisie Williams for doing some of those jumps in the chase scene herself. And even she compares the Waif to the Terminator, so fans weren’t wrong when they drew that connection.

Also, Williams confirms that Arya was indeed trying to lure the Waif to her hiding spot, if anyone was still fuzzy on that.

We have one more of these to go. The final installment of The Game Revealed will be released after the two episodes helmed by “Hardhome” director Miguel Sapochnik, “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Winds of Winter” have aired.