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Game of Thrones will peel back at least a few layers of Season 6 mystery by Sunday’s premiere, but fans may have to wait even longer to answer questions dogging the franchise for years. That said, a new promo may confirm the flashback many have been hoping for, along with a few new sneak peeks to tide us over.

Game of Thrones whipped fans into a fiery frenzy with its second full trailer for Season 6, revealing several surprise returns and the biggest dragons yet, among other Snow-y secrets. We couldn’t help but dive way deeper into each frame of footage. So what new secrets of Game of Thrones Season 6 were hidden in the flames?

You could say that Game of Thrones is a popular television program. People tend to follow its production, from time to time, and speculate on its future, one might suggest. You could also say that Season 6 has some anticipation around it. This epic second trailer for the April premiere would not dissuade this notion. Please, remain calm as you watch.

We’ve just two weeks to go until Game of Thrones Season 6 finally pulls back the veil on its debut, but with some lucky folk already clued in by Sunday’s event premiere, even more footage has begun making the rounds. Check out our second official clip, as Dany makes some new friends, while another Jon Snow tidbit emerges from Castle Black!

Welp, if news that HBO would withhold Game of Thrones Season 6 screeners from the press weren’t enough a clue that Jon Snow’s fate would stay buried until April 24, the first premiere synopsis isn’t going to be much help. Will “The Red Woman” undo such a damning synopsis for Game of Thrones’ Season 6 return?

HBO’s Westworld adaptation has seemingly struggled in recent months, closing down production to retool scripts and placing a 2016 premiere in doubt, but there may finally be light at the end of the tunnel. Production has officially resumed, adding True Detective and Banshee alum Lili Simmons along the way.

We’ve had a taste of Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley Season 3 to date, and now Pied Piper’s return is at last out of beta. Richard scrambles to get back into his own company, and T.J. Miller rides a unicorn in our first trailer and poster for the April premiere of Silicon Valley Season 3.

More-so than ever, Game of Thrones Season 6 will take us into the Winds of Winter spoiler territory that George R.R. Martin himself has yet to schedule a date for, let alone publish. Already, the HBO drama has taken a few dark turns not yet found in Martin’s literary work, though the author admits a major Season 5 sequence will in fact unfold in one of the upcoming books.

Six years in, it’s still a bit complicated keeping up with all of Game of Thrones’ rich history, which could well leave us in the lurch if Season 6 changes the map as much as we’d expect. Thankfully, new animated shorts from the Season 5 Blu-ray have emerged, chronicling both Robert’s Rebellion and the Many-Faced God dominating Season 6's promotional campaign.

The current cycle of preparing for Game of Thrones’ Season 6 return has fans scraping every corner for news of Jon Snow’s revival, ostensibly spoiling George R.R. Martin’s books, though we sometimes forget how HBO’s divergence from the novels can backfire. Now, Martin reveals that HBO already killed one character he’s plotted a key Winds of Winter twist for, leaving Game of Thrones in the lurch.

If the ho-hum release of HBO’s Vinyl put a cap on the premium cable network’s difficulty launching a major hit in recent years, the well may run far deeper than we realized. HBO’s Westworld adaptation in particular may now end up pushed to 2017, reportedly owing to creative clashes with showrunner Jonathan Nolan.

No doubt Game of Thrones has shaped the manner in which political rivalries play out their bitter ends in the media, that the harshest of podium insults scarcely raise an eyebrow anymore. Well, with Game of Thrones and Donald Trump both on everyone’s minds, it’s no surprise the Orange King fits right in with the world of Westeros.