GAME OF THRONES RECAP: "Walk of Punishment"
1. The Blackfish. Tonight, we open on a funeral that’s nearly botched. It’s one of those ancient, send-you-off-on-a-boat-downriver Viking kind of funerals, where a guy lights the boat on fire with a burning arrow. But for a long, silent, awkward 2 minutes, we watch the guy whose job it is to light up the floating pyre extinguish his arrows with useless splashes into the river. After three failed attempt, the Blackfish (as he’s called) exasperatedly rips the bow out of the incompetent archer’s hand and carries out the job himself with one try. In a world that’s always gambling between life and death, this is an "Office" like moment of awkwardness.