Winter may be coming, but spring is here, and that means a new season of Game of Thrones is just around the corner.
We've all been dying for the smallest glimpse at what season six may bring, grasping to the splittest of seconds that flash across our screen in the few trailers that have been released so far. Now, there are actual clips, allowing us to check in with a few of our Westeros faves. (No, Jon Snow is not among them. Did you really think he would be?)
In the first clip from the premiere episode above, Cersei (Lena Headey) has learned of the death of her beloved daughter, Myrcella, at the end of last season, and she finds herself reminiscing about the way bodies decompose. It's so very gross, so very Cersei, and so very sad. However much we've hated this woman over the years, watching her and her brother-lover, Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), deal with the loss of their child is no fun at all.
In the second clip, from a later episode, we join Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and her Dothraki kidnappers as they arrive at a city, and Dany is welcomed "home." We kind of wonder if that welcome is actually sincere, given the way she arrived and fact that only moments earlier, she was told to "move your ass," but we'll have to wait to find out just what is in store for the Khaleesi.
In the third clip, once again from the premiere, titled "The Red Woman," Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Theon (Alfie Allen) are on the run, presumably just after they escaped from Winterfell in the season five finale. Dogs and voices can be heard behind them, so clearly they are being chased by Ramsay's (Iwan Rheon) men, but things don't look so good for them when they arrive at an icy river with no boat in sight.
Game of Thrones returns Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on HBO.