

As someone who has watched this season of Game of Thrones and zero others (I know), I have come to understand the characters in a few ways: 1) Cultural osmosis, i.e, what has incidentally seeped into my head over the last 20 years I’ve been forced to listen to conversations about the Starks and the Neds and the Winterfells; 2) What I have extracted from my boyfriend during the show (Who is that? Which relative did he fuck? etc.); and 3) How many people in the cast were formerly on a show I actually watched and loved, Skins.
By my count, the number is two: Cassie (Hannah Murray) is a brunette who got knocked up by the chap who loves books and should probably be dead after that big battle; and Chris (Joe Dempsie), who boned/loves Arya and used to live in a furnace making weapons until he got promoted to being some sort of lord.