Even when done well, the penultimate flashback episode has become such an endemic storytelling strategy in TV dramas that it should be abandoned on principle. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: ...

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One brilliant way flashbacks can be used is in special episodes. Flashback episodes take place almost entirely in the past and can be used to upend viewer expectations about what they have been ...

It all kicked off for Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) in “In the Name of the Mother,” episode 5 of the Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. After striking the cruel Aerion ...