Audio Commentaries (Discs 1-5): The Blu-ray release of Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season offered seven audio commentaries. Not too shabby. Upping the supplemental ante considerably, though, The Complete Second Season offers twelve, and what a twelve they are. There's a bit of hitting and missing to be had, sure, most notably in regards to some of the actors (who occasionally drift off on small tangents), but you'd be hard pressed to find an inch of the sophomore season and its production that isn't covered. Of particular note: the overviews from the executive producing powers that be, among them George R.R. Martin, who's engaging, frank and thorough. Best of all, the commentaries are just the beginning.
Tracks include "The North Remembers" with executive producers/writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, "The Night Lands" with actors Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy) and Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy), "What Is Dead May Never Die" with writer Bryan Cogman and director Alik Sakharov, a second stab at "What Is Dead May Never Die" with actors Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), "Garden of Bones" with actors Carice Van Houten (Melisandre) and Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth), "The Old Gods and the New" with co-executive producer/writer Vanessa Taylor and actors Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Rose Leslie (Ygritte), "A Man Without Honor" with Benioff and Weiss, "The Prince of Winterfell" with actors Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister) and Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), "Blackwater" with author/co-executive producer George R.R. Martin, a second take on "Blackwater" with director Neil Marshall and actors Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) and Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), "Valar Morghulis" with visual effects team members Rainer Gombos and Steve Kullback, and a second "Valar Morghulis" chat with co-executive producer/director Alan Taylor and actor Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen).
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