The Night Lands
(or a Song of Ice and Fire
or on HBO Sunday night is Onion knight)

Religion, theology and the supernatural figured prominently in the second show of the second sesason of Game of Thones. Rakharo could or could not enter the Dothraki afterlife. The Greyjoys uttered their religious callout-saying*: "What's Dead May Never Die" to their Drowned God. The small council pondered how do you kill a dead man. With fire apparently, replied Tyrion. He said he believes Mormont whom he met on his trip to the Wall, while Maester Pycelle said the notherners have always been superstitious. Davos Seaworth told his "True Believer" son Matthos that prayer doesn't work, but no reflection on how Melisandre the Red Priestess survived drinking the poison last episode? Melisandre tells Stannis he must give all of him to the Lord of Light in exchange for victory while Jon Snow stumbled upon the arrangement Craster has with The Others.

One thing mind-blowing about the first season what how the premiere episode had The Others arranging wildling body parts in a gnostic circle for the luckless Nightswatch ranger to find.** And then the season finale had a shot of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre which formed a gnostic circle also. And the dragon eggs hatched.

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*I can't find what this is called and it's making me feel stupid (although maybe there isn't a specific word for it). It's a religious phrase automatically said in response to some other religious word or phrase, usually in unison by everyone present. I now it's done in Islam and Catholicism. In this episode, the Greyjoys are saying in response to the naming of a deceased relative.
**And then The Others quickly took the wildling body parts back (to eat?).