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We’re going to remember this episode for a long time. Westeros – we have lift off. Jon Snow lives, Roose Bolton dies and the latest series has, with practised verve, plunged us into a tailspin all over again.
Make no mistake, this will go down as one of the most seismic 60 minutes in the annals of Game of Thrones, up there with the Red Wedding and last year’s epic White Walker battle at Hardhome.
Seeing Ramsay calmly eliminate his family was wrenchingly gruesome while, after months of speculation, Snow’s resurrection had a genuine bolt-from-the-blue quality.
The question now is: across the rest of the season, how can Game of Thrones possibly top this?
You guessed it: Jon Snow lives
Jon Snow’s return played out like a piece of sublime fan fiction. As the internet had long suspected, the task of coaxing the Lord Commander back from the void fell to Red Witch Melisandre (Carice van Houten), thus fulfilling a script many of us had already written in our heads.
Director Jeremy Podeswa had fun lingering over the bizarre specifics of the ritual. Beard-trimming, hair-washing, a sponge across Snow’s midriff – was this a necromantic conjuring or a pamper package at the Castle Black spa?
Yet there was tension, too, as seconds stretched to minutes and still Snow lay motionless on that slab. When all but loyal direwolf Ghost had deserted, his eyes finally snapped open – a visual cliche that Game of Thrones somehow invested with actual, edge-of-couch oomph
Source http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/02/game-of-thrones-season-6-episode-2-home-brans-return-and-things/