Randy Dankievitch

TV Over Mind February 11, 2020 [A]n hour that continues to bravely push Game of Thrones forward into unseen territory, in what's shaping up to be a magnificent season. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Alyssa Rosenberg

Washington Post Top Critic April 5, 2019 Tonight's "Game of Thrones" was a particularly powerful exploration of how the people who live through great events begin to shape those narratives even before their stories are finished. Full Review

Rob Bricken

io9.com April 5, 2019 I think there's a good chance that when the credits rolled on last night's episode, "The Door," ol' George stroked his beard and said, "Damn, I wish I'd thought of that." Full Review

Kayti Burt

Collider April 5, 2019 The heartbreaking, yet satisfying information drop made for the best episode of the season so far. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Jonathon Dornbush

Mashable April 5, 2019 Hodor, we hardly knew you. Full Review

Sarah Marrs

Lainey Gossip April 5, 2019 Hodor's sacrifice is a legitimately great moment, a heroic act from the most unlikely of people. Full Review

Jeff Spross

Brightest Young Things April 5, 2019 At this point, there have just been too many episodes to say "The Door" is the best hour Game of Thrones has ever produced. But it's got to be in the top five, and certainly the best of this season so far. Full Review

Catalina Combs

Black Girl Nerds June 26, 2018 Not only is [this episode's direction] as vast as space and as timeless as infinity, but a completely different dimension of sound, sight, and mind. Full Review

John DeVore

Decider June 26, 2018 This week's episode was full of great stuff. Full Review

William Evans

Black Nerd Problems June 22, 2018 They deserved better than this, man. Hodor. We all deserved better than this. Full Review

Kevin Fitzpatrick

ScreenCrush June 19, 2018 There's so much to take in and discuss with "The Door," but for all their revelations and various ends, no Season 6 episodes to date have felt particularly earned or measured, at least beyond the intended shock value. Full Review

James White

Empire Magazine November 7, 2017 Quite simply this was one of the best episodes of the show to date and a highlight in a season that has been building well after a sluggish start. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Soumya Srivastava

Hindustan Times August 30, 2017 The Door has set a lot of things in motion and guys, Bran is important. Full Review

Ned Lannamann

The Stranger (Seattle, WA) August 24, 2017 As thrilling and heartbreaking as the HBO show has ever been in all of its five and a half seasons. Full Review

James Hunt

What Culture July 6, 2016 The Door ... delivered not only the best episode of the season to date, but one that is likely to go down as an all-time favourite. Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10

Lenika Cruz

The Atlantic Top Critic June 21, 2016 I love it whenever the show shifts its attention from the usual, highly concentrated loci of power to the "regular folks" that populate the edges of Game of Thrones's world. Full Review

John Serba

MLive.com June 15, 2016 Finally, we get a glimpse of this winter that everyone has been droning on about, a winter that came and went, and is apparently coming again. Or so I hear. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Blair Marnell

CraveOnline June 6, 2016 On the whole, this was the strongest episode of the season to date, and by far the most affecting. Full Review

Michael Calia

Wall Street Journal Top Critic June 6, 2016 Well, have your eyes stopped crying and your mind stopped exploding after that ending? Full Review