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If you watched Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 6, then you know last week’s installment offered even more horrific nightmare-fuel than usual.

The show’s creators are no strangers to dealing with the fallout from particularly disturbing scenes (Remember last year’s Cersei-Jaime Lannister encounter? Our apologies if you managed to block it out.), but this time the fecal matter has hit the fan like never before.

When a senator threatens to boycott your show you know you’ve reached an almost unprecedented level of controversy. So maybe the writers anticipated the blowback and they’re planning to deliver a more subdued, crowd-pleasing episode this week.

Ha! If you believe that, you know nothing, Jon Snow…