Hardhome, the walk of shame and a Game of Thrones sex scene included on Best of 2015 lists

Game of Thrones makes it onto more End of Year lists celebrating 2015’s best TV shows, episodes, moments and even sex scenes.

HitFix’s annual TV Critics’ Poll places Game of Thrones at #6 on its Top 10 Television Shows of 2015, a list based on twenty-one critics’ top 10 lists.

Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times (one of the critics featured in HitFix’s poll, interestingly enough) includes Game of Thrones in her compilation of “the best things to happen on the flat screen this year.” Of Game of Thrones season 5 she wrote, “HBO’s astonishingly ambitious series continued to be astonishing and ambitious. There is still nothing like it on television.”

Showing off the show’s incredible social media power, Game of Thrones came in as the #1 most discussed TV show in Facebook’s annual Year in Review. Other buzzworthy shows included The Walking Dead, The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live

Neil Miller of Film School Rejects listed Game of Thrones at #4 on his 15 Best TV Shows of 2015 list, remarking that, “Thrones wasn’t perfect in season 5, but when it was on, it was way on. And it continues to reign as the biggest, baddest dragon in the land of televised entertainment.”

The Washington Post placed Game of Thrones as the third best TV show of 2015, with critic Hank Stuever saying, “I remain in awe of how many ways ‘Game of Thrones’ works as an epic piece of entertainment for both the casual viewer and the full-on obsessive fan.”

Variety’s Maureen Ryan includes Game of Thrones on her list of the 20 Best Returning Shows of 2015. She notes the controversies and issues that occasionally plague the show, but says, “Still, when it’s firing on all cylinders, whether in poignant and spectacularly acted character moments or in epic battles like ‘Hardhome,’ it’s one of the most transfixing shows on TV.”

On more specific lists, Yahoo has ranked “Hardhome” as one of 2015’s 26 best television episodes, describing it as a “remarkable, action-packed Game of Thrones episode that’s on par with any big-budget, big-screen blockbuster.” Buzzfeed crowned the White Walker resurrection scene from the episode as the #1 television moment of 2015.

Yahoo saluted Cersei’s walk of shame as the year’s 13th best TV moment, as “[t]he scene left your skin crawling, and made you feel something you never thought you would for Cersei — pity.”

Buzzfeed included Game of Thrones in another list- Sam and Gilly’s sex scene lands at #23 on its list of the 25 Hottest TV Sex Scenes, Ranked from Worst to Best … oh my!

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