The swords are sharp, and the blood is plentiful. Within minutes of "Winter is Coming," we knew that heads were going to roll on the road to Westeros' War of the Five Kings.
HBO, the same network that tosses blood buckets at True Blood, didn't pull any punches with the brutality of the series. Decapitations spurt blood, boys get pushed out of windows, and there are plenty more crowning moments of violence to come.
