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<em>Game of Thrones</em> Premieres, Just in Time for Easter

The last in a five-part series about HBO’s new show, which begins this weekend
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HBO’s new series, Game of Thrones, premieres on Sunday. This week, we’re featuring five different takes on the show, which is the first foray into fantasy for a network that has built its programming on grimly realistic stories like The Sopranos and The Wire. Atlantic correspondent Alyssa Rosenberg began the conversation, and The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer, Mother Jones’s Nick Baumann, and Amber Taylor continued it. Now, The Atlantic’s Eleanor Barkhorn picks up the thread:

It’s appropriate that is premiering just before

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