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Watch A Bar Full Of Game Of Thrones Fans React To New Season's Shocking Cold Open

By Rachel Cromidas in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 17, 2017 9:20PM

Spoilers ahead.


As you hopefully know by now (or else, don't say we didn't warn you), winter came for House Frey last night during Game of Thrones Season 7's epic cold open, featuring a vengeful Arya Stark disguised as Walder Frey, exacting poetic revenge on a room full of Freys.

It was no Frey pie, but it was a particularly satisfying way to begin the new and penultimate season of our favorite dragon and ice zombie show.

The Burlington Bar in Chicago's Logan Square has been screening each episode of the show as it airs, all the while recording fans' gleeful and horrified reactions for our viewing pleasure. Above, you can watch as the crowd's faces turn from confusion (isn't Walder Frey dead?) to bloodlust as they realize Arya is about to go all The North Remembers on a banquet hall full of Freys.

Watch, above, as Arya in disguise deadpans: "Leave one wolf alive, and the sheep are never safe," while Burlington Bar patrons clink glasses, clap and shout in celebration. Winter is here, and we couldn't be more excited.