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The biggest 'Game of Thrones' mystery: Why are those 'Inside the Episodes' so boring?

"The Bells," the highly controversial fifth episode of "Game of Thrones'" final season, may have gotten the series' lowest Rotten Tomatoes score ever (along with its highest viewership numbers), but it did spark unusual interest in the creators' after-show commentary, which had until this week been regularly dismissed as astonishingly super-dull.

Season after season, HBO has offered a post-episode "inside look" called, with a decided lack of whimsy, "Inside the Episode." And season after season this turned out to be David Benioff and D.B. Weiss droning through a play-by-play recap of what viewers had just seen, with such dazzling insights as "Tyrion has made a lot of mistakes and Dany really is at the end

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