'Game Of Thrones' Just Got Its WORST Critic Score Since SEASON 5 -- Find Out Why!!

Sunday night’s episode of Game Of Thrones was the most tense, breathtaking 82 minutes of television we’ve ever seen.
Fans were having hourlong anxiety attacks as the life of nearly every beloved character left on the show hung in the balance,
And yet, somehow, TV critics are crapping all over it!
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Um… are they watching the same show we are??
OK, “crapping all over it” is a touch hyperbolic, but for real — The Long Night is the worst rated episode of the show since SEASON FIVE.
Y’all remember Season Five, right?

Yep, according to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the Battle of Winterfell is currently sitting at a 74% fresh, with 88 reviews counted (and yes, that is likely to be its final score).
Compare that to Episode One’s score of 92% and Episode Two’s 88%.
The last episode to be lower was Season Five’s Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken, which is widely considered to be the worst in the show’s history — and the only one deemed “rotten” by the site’s rating system.
(It was the one where the Sand Snakes try to kidnap Myrcella, and Sansa has her wedding night with Ramsay.)
OK, so did critics overall think The Long Night wasn’t as good??

Actually, not exactly.
For this we need to explain how Rotten Tomatoes works for a sec:
RT doesn’t show you the average critical score, it give you a number that is the percent of critics who gave it a positive rating.
So if you have ten critics, and they ALL give a movie a C+, three out of five, however they say “it was aight” — the movie will get a 100%. Not a single one of those critics thought the movie was an A+ perfect masterpiece, but now it kind of looks like it because hey — what’s better than 100%?
But if you have a movie where 8 out of 10 critics thought it was a perfect A+ masterpiece, but two thought it was bad, the movie gets an 80%. Lower score, even though way more critics loved it.

OK, turns out that’s exactly the case with this Game Of Thrones ep.
The average critic score for the episode is 9.04/10. (That’s almost exactly the same as the average of The Mountain And The Viper, btw.) What that tells us is, the critics who liked it LOVED it. Much like the fans.
There were just more critics this time around who disliked it. So… why??
Here are a few of their complaints:

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone: “If the war with the army of the dead was just meant as misdirection for the real final fight, then the least it could have given us was better spectacle than most of what “The Long Night” had to offer.”
Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic: “It’s either a testament to a portion of Thrones fandom or a criticism of the show (or both) that most of the theories floating around — that Bran is the Night King, that the Night King would instead fly down and wreak havoc on King’s Landing — were more groundbreaking than what ended up happening.”
Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe: “I do love “Game of Thrones,” but in the middle of “The Long Night,” my love was tested. The effort to pepper the battle with human set pieces lost out to shadowy bluster.”
A.J. Willingham, CNN: “They were all bad. These were all bad scenes and none of them were pleasant.”

What do YOU think of the critics’ hot takes on winter’s arrival??
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