The events at Hardhome start 30 minutes into the episode and the shit hits the fan just over 10 minutes later.
What's everyone's thoughts on season rankings to date? Season 4 still gets the number one spot for me - very enjoyable opening episode, one of the best finales and the season contains some of the best individual episodes. I think they balanced all the stories and paced the huge moments really well. The build-up to the battle at the Wall and the events in King's Landing were really good and I loved the pairing of Arya and The Hound.
Season 2 would be second on my list - I absolutely loved Tyrion and Bronn running King's Landing. Lots of other great stuff with Arya and Tywin meeting at Harrenhal, Jon going out beyond the Wall and Theon's seige of Winterfell - only slightly let down by Dany being stuck in Quarth. I'd put Season 6 as third, but maybe with a few more watches it could even creep up to second. On the one hand, I feel it gets a bit of an artificial bump from tidying up the shoddier elements of Season 5. The Sparrow and Arya storylines were handled much better and Dorne was thankfully given very little time. But it works like Seasons 2 and 4 in building up to a big battle (and delivering in spades) and I loved all the stuff with Bran. The rest of the list for me would be Season 1, Season 3 and Season 5.