Game Of Thrones S08E05 recap: A different kind of Mother's Day

(From left) Kit Harington, Jacob Anderson and Liam Cunningham from a still in Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5. PHOTO: HBO
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SINGAPORE - Let's call this episode Mother's Day.

The second-last show of the final season of Game Of Thrones is a bitter victory. Viewers get what they want - the downfall of Cersei and King's Landing - but at the hands of an angry and possibly insane Mother of Dragon. It is now singular instead of plural.

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