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    <em>Game of Thrones</em>: Jon Snow Finally Learns the Truth

    And in the process, he—and the show that has shaped him—reckons once again with the totalizing power of lies.
    by Megan Garber Apr 15, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: HBO

    This story contains spoilers through Season 8, Episode 1 of Game of Thrones.

    It was Sam who shared the news. Reeling from the discovery that Daenerys had summarily executed his father and brother after they had refused to pledge their loyalty to her, ’ resident intellectual finds Jon in the crypt of Winterfell, where the bodies are buried and the myths of the dead live on. Sam, his voice cracking with rage, relays the political consequences of his family’s tragedy: that the queen who has portrayed herself as an agent of justice might be, also, the opposite. Had Jon been in Daenerys’s position, Sam insists, pivoting to the reason he has sought Jon among the tombs, Jon

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