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    'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Premiere: 'Shall We Begin?'

    'Dragonstone' saw the disparate plot threads of HBO's hit series pulling together as Daenerys Targaryan returned to Westeros to claim the Iron Throne.
    by Glen Weldon Jul 17, 2017 6 minutes
    <em>"Pinot Noir!/Lann-is-star!/Have-I per-haps gone too-far?"</em>: Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) takes a sip or twelve of wine in the premiere episode of <em>Game of Thrones'</em> seventh season.

    We'll be recapping Season 7 of HBO's Game of Thrones here on Monkey See. We'll try to turn them around overnight, so look for them first thing on Mondays. And of course: Spoilers abound

    After a deck-clearing, barn-burner (Sept-burner, technically) of a season finale like "The Winds of Winter" — a towering achievement by any metric, not least of which, you know: body count — you'd be forgiven for expecting a season premiere that would concern itself with placing Game of Thrones' scattered, wildfire-singed gamepieces back on the board, methodically and meticulously.

    And yet: Things are ostensibly speeding up, right? This seventh season is an abbreviated one — 7 episodes, not the usual 10 — and we've got only a total of thirteen episodes to go. Granted, some of those later episodes will reportedly clock in with runtimes that'll seem positively Apatowian, but the point is: Now is not the time for shilly-shallying.

    No, now is

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