The Rains of Castamere – Season 3 Episode 9
Top 10 Most Shocking Game of Thrones Episodes
Of course, who can forget this episode, possibly the most heart-breaking and shocking episode of the entire series. The Red Wedding is infamous in Game of Thrones, and for good reason. This doozy of an episode mostly focuses on Robb and the Stark army arriving at The Twins, where Walder Frey rules. The Freys grant the Starks their hospitality, as that night is the wedding of Edmure Frey. Things take a chilling turn however as deception begins to show its head. The musicians at the wedding start to play “The Rains of Castamere,” and then the bloodshed starts. Robb’s pregnant wife, Talisa, is the first to go, brutally stabbed in the stomach repeatedly. Then Robb falls, Catelyn falls, and the rest of the Stark bannermen both inside the castle and out are brutally murdered. For anyone that didn’t know this event was coming, it was a nightmarish picture that saw our heroes completely and utterly annihilated.
For whatever else may have happened in the episode with other characters, you can only sit in shock and awe as the credits roll to The Rains of Castamere, and the song takes on a whole new meaning.
