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Line 102: On the review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the episode has an approval rating of 49% based on 105 reviews, and an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average rating]] of 6.33/10, with the critical consensus stating, "Death, destruction, and the deterioration of Daenerys' sanity make 'The Bells' an episode for the ages; but too much plot in too little time muddles the story and may leave some viewers feeling its conclusions are unearned."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/game-of-thrones/s08/e05|title=The Bells|last=|first=|date=|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango (company)|Fandango Media]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=June 10, 2019}}</ref> It is the lowest-rated episode on Rotten Tomatoes in the show's history.<ref name="Reilly">{{cite web|first=Nick|last=Reilly|title=Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ episode is worst reviewed in show’s history|work=[[NME]]|date=May 14, 2019 |accessdate=May 14, 2019|url=https://www.nme.com/news/tv/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-5-worst-review-history-rotten-tomatoes-2487709}}</ref><ref name="Charley Ross">{{cite web|first=Charley|last=Ross|title=Game of Thrones season 8, episode 5 is currently the worst-reviewed in the show's history|work=[[Digital Spy]]|date=May 13, 2019|accessdate=May 14, 2019|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a27450770/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-5-reviews-worst-show-history/}}</ref> Lenika Cruz of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' wrote that although she found the special effects stunning and the acting spectacular, this was "the worst ''Game of Thrones'' episode ever" because the plot was either too obvious or illogical, with the massacre seeming "an unearned negation of the identity [Daenerys] had spent years building for herself".<ref name=AtlanticReview>{{cite web |last1=Sims |first1=David |last2=Cruz |first2=Lenika |last3=Kornhaber |first3=Spencer |title=Game of Thrones Delivers Its Most Cataclysmic Episode |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/05/game-thrones-season-8-episode-5-review/589297/ |website=[[The Atlantic]]|date=May 12, 2019|accessdate=May 13, 2019}}</ref> Hugh Montgomery of [[BBC News|BBC Culture]] wrote that characters such as Tyrion, Jaime, Daenerys, and Cersei were "definitively sacrificed to the show's scrambled plotting", and that ''Game of Thrones'' was previously "a show that intelligently delineated a senseless world", but that it was now nonsense.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Montgomery |first1=Hugh |title=Game of Thrones: The Bells review |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190513-game-of-thrones-the-bells-review |website=[[BBC News|BBC Culture]] |accessdate=May 13, 2019}}</ref> VanDerWerff stated that Cersei and Jaime's deaths were not given much thought by the writers and were instead simply something to check off a list.<ref name="VanDerWerff"/> Kelly Lawler of ''[[USA Today]]'', saying that the episode lacked substance and was an "absolute disaster", argued that Grey Worm, Daenerys and Varys took actions which were wildly out of character.<ref name="USATreview">{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/05/12/game-thrones-recap-season-8-episode-5-daenerys-arya-tyrion-jaime-cersei/1166469001/|title='Game of Thrones' recap: The series just burned itself to the ground|last=Lawler|first=Kelly|date=May 13, 2019|website=USA TODAY|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=May 13, 2019}}</ref> | |||