It was beginning to seem like nothing on “Game of Thrones” is sacred.
Last season, a pregnant woman was stabbed in the belly. This season, a child king died, and his father raped his mother alongside his corpse. (Did I mention they’re brother and sister?) On Sunday’s episode, a baby was sacrificed to the show’s ice-zombie White Walkers.
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But there was one place that “Game of Thrones” did not go: An adult woman came close to having sex with a young boy — and didn’t.
“Game of Thrones” certainly skated the line, though, employing a famously gross phrase of child molesters.