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Season 8 – Game of Thrones

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Apr 2019

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George R.R. Martin's best-selling book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" is brought to the screen as HBO sinks its considerable storytelling teeth into the medieval fantasy epic. It's the depiction of two powerful families -- kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men -- playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Martin is credited as a co-executive producer and one of the writers for the series, whose shooting locations include Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia and Spain.

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Critics Consensus

Game of Thrones' final season shortchanges the women of Westeros, sacrificing satisfying character arcs for spectacular set-pieces in its mad dash to the finish line.

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Matthew Rozsa

Salon.com

Mar 17, 2020

3/4

There is something courageous about a television series that is brave enough to reimagine Richard III as a hero.

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Graeme Blundell

The Australian

Dec 17, 2019

Game of Thrones finally finished, the last episode aptly titled The Long Night and it was a terrible ending, disappointing for fans, causing a collective cringe around the globe.

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

May 22, 2019

[This season] made choices that I just didn't understand...you have to wrap it up somehow, and this season is just full of more extremes and it just doesn't work anymore or fit in with the rest...

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Geordie Williamson

The Saturday Paper

Sep 3, 2026

It is one of the weirder phenomena of our current situation, that this exquisitely virtualised fairytale for grown-ups should be a vehicle of reconnection with some more urgent, vivid sense of human conflict and connection.

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Nathan Mattise

Ars Technica

Jul 28, 2021

After George RR Martin's books ended, the show's mojo seemed to follow. It may have still constituted event TV, but in retrospect that was based on the strength of the fan community and massive marketing more than the material itself.

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Kshitij Rawat

The Indian Express

Mar 9, 2021

SHOCKING things happened just because they had shock value. They bore no connection to anything else that had happened before them. There was hardly any organic, believable storytelling leading up to those moments. Thus, they felt shallow.

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William O

@RT29553543 5 days ago

With just six episodes they somehow managed to kill the rewatchability of one of the best shows on television. I’m still not over it.

Dusty O

@opticboy57 Oct 3, 2026

One of the most disappointing final seasons you will ever experience. What a shame to a once in a lifetime first 7 seasons of a show.

Nina P

@NinaP681 Sep 27, 2026

In a show that is infamous for killing off your favorite characters in all its glorious hard-R bloody bliss, the final demise of the most loathed characters turns out to be so embarrassingly skimmed over and unsatisfyingly PG.

Esqueleto5678 T

@RT15316404 Sep 12, 2026

I don’t know how they managed to ruin an entire series in just six episodes. Not a single episode is good, and the final stretch is awful. On an action level, it’s a 10/10, but when it comes to logic and the ending, it’s terrible. Almost no character got a satisfying conclusion, except for The Hound. Easily the worst season I’ve ever watched. 1/10.

Johan Sebastian T

@RT55760276 Aug 25, 2026

recently I watched the whole serie for the first time, GOT OG 1-8, and there is no way that someone in his right mind throws everything overboard by chance in just 6 eps (8S) disgusting. shifted the narrative towards the end, in an story that was naturally falling into place well by itself for the audience, portraying the villains as the stars of the show and dying like heros in the most merciful way possible, while the main character that carried and keep interesting the whole proyect ended like a supporting character would do. I understand the new wave of writting less Disney endings and less predictability, nevertheless, to ruin something this big, in the last season knowingly there is nothing else, you got to be a DU BI in order to do it, this case reminds me of what happened with POWER OG once the fking writter got carried away thinking she was the star, that was the worst thing I had seen until now, this GOT 8-6 was 100 time worst than that, waste of time, worst ending ever done.

Connor S

@CWSutherland Aug 17, 2026

Borderline comical at times how bad it is, although not without elements that made you love the show to begin with.

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Peter Dinklage

Tyrion Lannister

Lena Headey

Queen Cersei Lannister

Emilia Clarke

Daenerys Targaryen

Aidan Gillen

Petyr Baelish

Kit Harington

Jon Snow

Sophie Turner

Sansa Stark

Episode 1

Aired Apr 14, 2019

Winterfell

Arriving at Winterfell, Jon and Daenerys struggle to unite a divided North.

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Episode 2

Aired Apr 21, 2019

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Jaime presents his case to Bran, Daenerys and Sansa to answer for his mistakes; the gathered armies continue to prepare for battle against the White Walkers.

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Episode 3

Aired Apr 28, 2019

The Long Night

Brienne and Jaime prepare the armies for battle; Arya is desperate to prove her worth as a fighter as the dead draw near.

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Episode 4

Aired May 5, 2019

The Last of the Starks

Jon and Daenerys look to the South in the wake of a costly victory; Tyrion proposes a compromise which could help to ease tensions.

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Episode 5

Aired May 12, 2019

The Bells

Daenerys and Cersei weigh their options after their confrontation at the city gates. Their armies await instructions as they sit on the edge of battle.

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Episode 6

Aired May 19, 2019

The Iron Throne

After much turmoil and bloodshed across the Seven Kingdoms, the battle for the Iron Throne comes to an end, and the kingdom's true fate is revealed.

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