Extended Game of Thrones season 6 trailer teases Snow’s fate, a recap of revenge

The first extended trailer for Game of Thrones season 6 is here, and it picks up exactly where season 5 left off — with (spoiler alert!) Jon Snow (played by Kit Harington) bleeding on the ground. The tease offers some sought after hints into what will happen in the upcoming season, as much as some of the plot details burn like hot steel.

“He’s gone,” we hear Davos say after Snow’s corpse is shown. Anything is possible on Game of Thrones, of course, but the outlook looks pretty grim for the return of the former Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. We can’t say we weren’t warned; Kit Harington recently revealed that he is “not in the show anymore,” highlighting that he plays dead in season 6 scenes.

Between the news about Snow and the sad sounds of the Wicked Game cover that serves as the trailer’s score, the tone is somber, to say the least. This bleakness won’t be accepted without a fight, though. “Everything they’ve taken from us, we’re going to take back and more,” Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) tells his twin-slash-lover, Cersei (Lena Heady), likely referring to the death of their daughter Myrcella (Nell Tiger Free), who was poisoned. It appears that Cersei is onboard with payback when she announces that she chooses violence later in the trailer in rebuke of the Sparrows.

Numerous other hints are dropped throughout the 90-second preview. We see a flayed man being burned by the Boltons, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) as a prisoner in a long march, Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) making his return after a season’s absence, and more. It isn’t until roughly the one-minute mark that we see GoT’s usual violence flare up, but once it does, it is fast-paced and abundant.

Game of Thrones season 6 is clearly not going to be short on action when it premieres on HBO on April 24. Stay with us for every new twist and turn leading up to the new season.

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Stephanie Topacio Long