Recap: 'Game Of Thrones' Season 6, Episode 1 Gets In Bed With 'The Red Woman'

Jon Snow is dead. Long live Jon Snow. 

We’re back in the land of Westeros, living in a post-Jon Snow world (for the moment? Maybe? We hope?) trying to pick up the wildly scattered pieces in Season 6 of “Game of Thrones.” The series, having transcended its book form, now has anywhere and everywhere to go.

So where do showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss want to go? In this first episode, which they wrote, and was directed by Jeremy Podeswa, they look to the women of the show, who are gathering themselves up from the shattering events of last season, and getting ready to step into their own power. 

If there’s a theme to “The Red Woman,” it might just be Girl Power, which is a promising turn. The show has always been interested in women in power, from Daenerys to Cersei to Catelyn Stark, though it’s been a rough go of it, and it seems like power for women often goes hand in hand with sexual humiliation, assault, and murder. It will be interesting to see how this...