Warning: This post contains spoilers for season seven of Game of Thrones.
Following a year-long hiatus, Game of Thrones returned for its seventh season Sunday night with a premiere that did not disappoint.
The episode — dubbed “Dragonstone” — was a definite crowd-pleaser, offering a slew of plot twists, callbacks and emotional turns throughout its hour-long run. It not only shattered Thrones‘ previous ratings record — drawing 16.1 million viewers across all HBO platforms — but also quickly became the show’s most-tweeted about episode of all time — garnering 2.4 million tweets to date.
According to Twitter, here were the top three most tweeted-about moments of the night:
- Disguised as Walder Frey, Arya Stark poisons the remaining Frey family during the opening scene
- Ed Sheeran makes a cameo
- Daenerys and Tyrion land at Dragonstone in the last scene of the episode
“Stormborn,” the second episode of Game of Thrones‘ seventh season airs July 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
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