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Game of Thrones – Episode One: “Winter is Coming” Directed by Timothy Van Patten Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss HBO sure could use an unabashed critical hit right now. Sure, True Blood is a ratings dynamo, and Boardwalk Empire and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce proved they can mount a lavish period piece like …

Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance spoke to Vulture in December about a new series he was working on with HBO: “I can’t tell you what [the show’s] about, but I can tell you that we’re gonna try to give new meaning to the word ‘character development.’” Now some light has been shed on Cianfrance’s HBO …