Note: This article contains “Game of Thrones” spoilers from Season 8, Episode 5.

“Game of Thrones” has gifted us one of our culture’s few remaining unifying forces. For a show about prophecies, dragons, and zombie armies, critics are often too fast to accuse the fantasy drama of jumping the shark. But Sunday night’s episode took turns so outlandish that viewers were forced to suspend not just a semblance of disbelief, but any and all rational thinking.