There are probably a couple hundred fan-made or entertainment-site made Game of Thrones series recaps out there as we heard toward the premiere of season six tomorrow, but you unless you want to spend a solid chunk of your day catching up on the last sixty episodes of the show, you might want to take a look at the only one that HBO has made itself.
The “series trailer” is a recap of sorts of the last six season, formatted in a way that more resembles a blockbuster movie trailer than anything for a TV show, but that’s the epic nature of Thrones I suppose. The trailer is incredibly adept at dodging around spoilers, as there isn’t a single character death from the show shown. Rather, its focus is on the main players of Game of Thrones and backstory of their characters, namely the Starks, the Lannisters, the White Walker invasion and Daenerys’ claim to the throne, mainly. Jon, Cersei, Arya, Tyrion and Dany get the most screen time, and given the five minute length, many characters are barely there at all like Littlefinger or Sam or Brienne. Even primary characters are only glimpsed like Sansa and Jaime.
Still, it’s a pretty solid look at the over-arching storylines of Game of Thrones since the start, and it’s the only one edited by HBO itself, so that aspect of it is top notch