Alan Taylor
Taylor is the OG who directed the last two episodes of Season 1 (including "Baelor," the big Ned Stark ep) and four episodes in Season 2. As EW noted, this will mark his first return to GoT since 2012.

Jeremy Podeswa
Got himself an Emmy nomination for directing Season 5's controversial (Sansa rape, Sand Snakes fight) "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken." In Season 6, he did the premiere and Episode 2, "Home."

Mark Mylod
Four-time director for GoT, he most recently brought back The Hound in "The Broken Man," and did Arya's chase scenes in "No One."

Matt Shakman
As EW wrote, he's new to GoT and "best known for his work on FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a comedy loved by Benioff and Weiss (the showrunners even wrote an episode, "Flowers for Charlie," although it's not one of the 39 episodes Shakman has directed). Shakman has also helmed episodes of AMC's Mad Men, CBS' The Good Wife and FX's Fargo."



No offense, but if Miguel Sapochnik can't do all/any, why not Jack Bender, who did Hodor's big hour, "The Door," or David Nutter, Michelle MacLaren, or Neil Marshall? Instead, we have a newbie, the guy who did "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" (which has the lowest IMDb rating at 7.8), and the guy who made the also not-very-popular "No One" (which still doesn't make sense for the Arya storyline).



But, anyway, it's the writing that really makes or breaks the show, and that's on showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss. Let's hope their plan for Season 7 and Season 8 stays the course of "The Winds of Winter" and doesn't get bent or broken along the way.



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