TV: Art imitates life in a game of drones

'The increasingly heavy reliance on deus ex machina plot devices is siphoning suspense out of the story'

Scorched earth policy: Daenerys Targaryen’s dragon lays waste to the Lannister infantrymen in Game Of Thrones (Sky Atlantic)

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Hearing Donald Trump bellow one of his loony sermons in the general direction of North Korea last week, the thought idly occurred that he may have watched the extraordinary battle scene in last week’s Game Of Thrones (Sky Atlantic) a few minutes before threatening to turn the Hermit Kingdom into a giant ashtray. But US foreign ...