Not usually my sort of thing, but so far, I'm impressed. Getting right into it now.
"Tell them that winter came for House Frey"
The winter is coming now soon for season 2.
A show that left me waiting every minute for the next episode for the past 9 years, binged watched Season 7 in one night leaving me in a zombie state the next day but well worth it. Seeing the end coming had me anxious and we would religiously watch each episode of Season 8 as it is released, and the episodes were damn good. It was so good it brought people who are not into this Genre to love it and be invested in it as the story unfolds
The ending is not what I was expecting, and I was left unsatisfied and wanting more. I still loved every season of the show but for a show that always set the standard high, it wasn't what I was expecting at the end for such a phenomenal show which was true thrilling roller-coaster. I'm trying not to ruin it for anyone with a spoiler but I loved this show and still do even with the ending that we saw
Lets hope that a show can match the story telling of Game Of Thrones, with an ensemble of fantastic actors, amazing visual effects, and fantastic story telling to fill this void at HBO
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The last half was really good!
I'm really looking forward to the next season.
Finally saw the finale, epic, now I gotta read the books...
Absolutely the best television show ever made. Superb is doing it an injustice
Loved it I mean I hated watching the last season but all I do is watch history of Westeros. Lol. Indeepgeek. And order of the green hand so I would have hated it no matter what I've read the books some 4 times some less each around 2 times tho all of them from song of fire and ice and there other books . I'm hardcore when it comes to this world so ya. I dunno it's great but it's hard to enjoy a final season of something u love no matter how it goes
GoT is set in a complex fictional world with an incredible array of characters, strong, with a depth hard to find in most shows let alone one based in a fantasy world. Each actor has put their all into their part. Winter is Coming.
I love this show
one of the top shows of 2011. so many twist and turns it kept me watching till the end.
ending wasn't the best but it definitely was "bitter sweet" as told.
8 - Great
This would've gotten a 20 if it hadn't been for the... less than stellar last seasons. Such a great show the first 4 seasons and you never knew where it was going to go to but after the show ran out of book material it got a bad less, still good, but not on the amazing level the first 4 seasons where. What a show.
Yeah, agree it is the best show ever, effects, acting, scenery etc, fantastic. Watching it for the second time before season eight arrives and seeing and learning more than first time round, but.......I just hope it is not just going to end up as another bloody zombie, (white walkers), show, hate them.......Season six episode 5 shows intent.......
I really hope there is a bit more depth and interest than killing zombies.........
i can’t fucking breathe
This is the first show ever to make me go from a 9/10 for the first 5 seasons to a 10/10 for the sixth one!
There will be a before and an after Game of Thrones in television history. Must watch! And several times!
absolutely the most amazing show ever!
Perfect series but the 8th season is a huuuuuge disappointment
A a a a a 89
Fantastic show! I recommend not skipping any episodes. Put on your seatbelt and hang on!
It is not by oversight that I have not written a review of this series, before today. I was a late adopter, having been initially repulsed by the lasiviousness, lewd, violent coarseness of the show (I think I watched one random episode and recoiled). Then, when the popularity of the show skyrocked, my curiousity lead me to start at the beginning and give the show a chance. I binged what I'd missed, then watched it episodically as it was broadcast, then, just before the beginning of each new season, I would binge the previous season, just to be caught up and ready to go. All those things that originally repelled me where still all there in abundance but the story telling, the characters, the acting, the quality of the production, and the human drama, on an epic scale, held my fascination and it became a guilty pleasure (so, watching, but not reviewing). Then, the production overshot the source material and the direction became less crisp and the characters struggled to find their footing. Finally, the end was near, and production values soared to Movie-of-the-Week standards. The last season ended and the audience was stunned. Some with disappointment (wounded by the trajectory of the plot and their beloved characters). Some with grief (no more GAME OF THRONES!?!). Some with sense overload (What did I just see?!?). I was in that category. It took days to reconcile what I had just watched. My only clear thought was, "Well...they had to end it some way." I was sure they could not have ended it in a way that would have satisfied everyone. Is there ever a good time or way to watch a beloved thing die? So, now, 53 days after the last episode was broadcast, I have summoned up the courage to write my review. This was a landmark series. It set the bar for non-network television productions: the story, acting, technical magic, locations, international cast, budget, quality were all the best of the best. For me, it will always be about story and characters: George R.R. Martin's concepts were epic and compelling; I can't imagine a better cast or better performances (indeed they harvested from some of the greatest while also forging a new generation of talent). No matter where you land with the ending (and I'm still not sure how I feel about it) this has been a tremendous ride and it has change our landscape of expectations. I can give this series no less than a 10 (watershed moment) out of 10. [Epic Fantasy Action Adventure Drama]
Episode 5 was a awesome episode!
Best moments are S1-S6 . Skip s7 and s8
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No matter how it ended. It would still be one of the Greatest shows ever. First in my top ten.
At first I didn't get what the fuss was about. Then, I watched the first episode. I was sold! Sure, It may not always be perfect, but it's a really tremendous show.
This is one of the best I've ever seen on TV!
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I know i know the final season is pretty bad...... This does not take away how amazing the show is overall. I just recently rewatched this entire series again and was shocked with just how good this show was. I would honestly recommend rewatching it.
Started watching this since it was often trending on trakt. Great show. So thanks trakt!
I thought this show was massively overhyped. It looks amazing, but I can't say I really care about any of the characters.
This show could have been so much better with less of the abundance of sexuality and a complete rewrite of the final season. That was horrible. So bad I immediately sat down and rewrote the script just so I could quickly forget about what was done.
I had to downgrade the rating form 10 -> 9 all is because of Season 8, this is how you almost ruin the best show in the world...!
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This was a fabulous show.
Damn, the cliffhangers make me crazy! Luckily the next episode airs tonight! :-D
Just awesome! Make me want to read the books.
The best I ever seen
Was a great show, until it wasn’t.
Gonna give this a shot over the weekend. Heard so much about it.
Thanks a lot petethelion! I was also looking for them!
Not sure if that even makes sense, but "Game of Thrones" could be an excellent example of a down-to-earth fantasy. Magic and superstition have a tangible impact on the events - you could replace the dragons with nuclear weapons and it will still make sense. You can see blood, sweat, and all kinds of body fluids in a hostile world where there is (almost) no plot armor for anybody. Revenge is hardly direct, and good guys don't always get to win.
My favorite thing is the focus on the sociopolitical implications rather than empathy with individual characters. It doesn't matter if a major character gets abruptly killed mid-season; their house's story will keep going on without losing its main thread. Characters can change sides and do the most questionable things, but there will always be a detailed sociological setup that had led to those decisions. Everything is affected by chaos and chance, but it still seems to happen in the function of someone's story arc.
The early seasons are more focused on character development and world-building, with most minor battles happening off-screen. It's probably due to budget restrictions rather than storytelling necessities, but the action for each season is limited to one "zombie" episode and one traditional battle episode (usually the penultimate). The rest is primarily dialogue-driven. The second, third, and fifth seasons are the least eventful, but they also happen to have at least one memorable episode or a mind-blowing plot twist towards the end. The pacing got remarkably tighter from the sixth season, which also happens to be the first after the writers ran out of material to adapt from the books. There the writers did a remarkably good job and remained coherent with the source material.
Unfortunately, the writing took a significant turn for the worse with the seventh season, getting much closer to any other mediocre TV show, flirting with soap-opera level dialogue and filling pages with logical fallacies and forced or incoherent character development.
The meticulous construction of the source material has been both GOT's strength and weakness. For the portion that covers Martin's books, the central plot was mostly kept on hold while expanding the scope sideways, with tons of new characters and locations each season. This made the show remarkably rich, but at the same time it made it hard to wrap up coherently. It might have worked if they were planning to keep going on for decades, but there's no way that a couple of seasons could close so many meticulously built-up character arcs. From the sixth season onwards, you can clearly notice that the showrunners started to purposedly cut storylines and kill off characters just to make the load lighter and write themselves out of the corner with many situations. The overall direction of the plot is still coherent with the previous seasons, but the ways the characters end up to their outcomes became highly questionable. Many character arcs that have been carefully drawn over have been conveniently cut out, some regressed or lost their whole purpose, some even ended up being exploited for mere fanservice purposes. Another big flaw comes from the fact that the characters that would take on a more prominent role towards the end also happen to be the ones played by the most terrible actors in the cast, killing any further chance to add nuance to their relationships.
Regardless of the problems with the writing, the show has outstanding production value, compelling world-building, and, even at its worst, it always manages to be gripping and engaging. That's not obvious for a show that is made of 80% talking, 15% action, and 5% boobies in the air. It's also one of the rare cases where slow pacing becomes a necessity, as it takes time to remember all characters and their intricate relationships as the plot keeps turning, twisting, and subverting expectations. Characters are first introduced as either black or white, but as the show progresses, things get more and more ambiguous. It's rarely to the point you will change sides, but there were many moments I could get into the bad guys' shoes and empathize with them as much as with the protagonists.
S4 > S1 > S6 > S3 > S2 > S5 > S7 > S8
Fav tv show..
Honestly one the most brilliant shows of ALL TIME
I read the books after the first season came out and subsequently lost interest in the TV adaptation for a long while. As a result, I come before you in 2022 having finally watched the whole show after being pulled back in by House of the Dragon.
I have to tell you: I'm fucking mystified by the adult babies that hated this ending. It's perfectly thematically cogent and set up well in the lore, the plot of the last few seasons and even the color theory employed in S7 & S8 when everyone but John, Jaime, Brienne and Davos swap their lighter colors for ominous black. I mean, with all the "coin flip" lore about Targaryen's going apeshit periodically, and you still didn't think the lady in the Hugo Boss black leather dress who burns people to death and is increasingly single-mindedly wrapped up in her own will to power might be the baddie? In the finale, TYRION EVEN LAYS IT OUT STEP BY STEP FROM ASTAPOR TO THE PRESENT HOW SHE WOUND UP LIKE THIS. So how come all anybody could talk about in 2018 was how surprising and "poorly set up" it was that the lady who crucified people turned out to be kind of unhinged and maybe not the person you want in peacetime power? Given her path, how is it at all surprising that her last remaining close confidant getting beheaded in front of her, and that confidant's last words being the classic Mad Targaryen "Burn Them All" refrain, pushed her over the edge into flagrantly cruel madness?
This is an idea in historical and political analysis that I've long found fascinating: The people who make good revolutionaries rarely have the temperament for ruling in peacetime. It's usually best for everyone if they fuck off or get murked when the war is won. Add to that the biggest underlying creative force in Game of Thrones - fantasy trope subversion - and you have a recipe for the Good Warrior Queen who goes too far and has to be put down like a dog. Robb, Ned, John, Sansa, Bran... nobody escapes becoming a shattered-and-patched together version of themselves by the end of this. Why would Daenerys? If you were expecting this to end as anything other than the hope-tinged tragedy it ended as, you weren't paying attention and I can't comprehend why you didn't give up on the show by Season 3.
I am convinced if this hadn't come out during the Trump years, when we were all collectively dealing to various degrees with the trauma/upset of Slay Kween Hillary getting fucked out of "her turn" by Trump, people would have recognized this for the genius it is. I can only hope we get to have a re-evaluation of this show soon. Benioff and Weiss killed it, beginning to end. The only subpar thing about that final season is that The Long Night was less impressive than some of the other Battle Episodes, but that's a pretty high bar since The Battle of the Bastards is maybe best battle I've seen in visual media. I will say that I hope Martin finds a clever but equally thematically coherent way to change things up in the final books (if he ever finishes), however, only because it will be more fun for me as a reader to see a different version of the story.
10/10s for Seasons 3, 4 & 6. 9/10s for all the others. 10/10 overall. Love it!
Nice atmosphere :) Story starts off a little complex with so many people but hey... first time I'm excited about a medieval series.
OMG reading the books now.
Great Show but the last season broke the show, that why i changed my vote from 9 to 6. All nice little hints and stories became broke in the season so this show was a real disappointment for me.
can't believe it's over
At least this and last episode had some breathing room. The breakneck pace of the first three, while thrilling and beautifully executed, has really exhausted me. Rewatching this, I can see that the binge is not the best way to watch this show! Maybe one a day, or every couple of days.
Don't waste your time with this.
Anyone who down play this show is mental. The show was epic. Start to finish. Standing ovations to everyone who lived and died. It left me wanting more but content with what I GOT.
Cast 10/10
Storytelling 10/10
Characters 10/10
Video Prouduction/Cut 10/10
Environment 5/5
Conclusion 3/5
Without season 8 = 96%
Been living under a rock?..... Bored of fake news....? Havn't watched GOT?!!!!! Get on with it.... Up there in my top 10 all time.... Fantastic!!!!
I can't argue on the fact that it's a great one !
But sometimes, too many stories poorly followed, no action till the 2 last episodes ...
Anyway, it's still a 9 ! :)
This show should has the highest rating on the site! Simple the best show I have ever watched!
One of the best shows I've seen. The last season however was admittedly bad. I wish they just extended the show. :cry:
One of the best shows I've seen, the last season was horrible though. :(
If it wasn't for the last season, this could have been the goat.
Based on the most vast and well defined fantasy worlds with grim reflections of our own history, since J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle Earth; Game of Thrones takes us through the events and history of Westeros bringing myth to life, while the wheel turns and crushes the lives of many others. The Song of Fire and Ice brought to life in the darkest of times. For the night is dark and full or terrors, & winter is coming.
Excellent show but I didn’t read the books. I think it should be watched in one shot, the first time I saw it I had to wait 1 year between 2 seasons and forgot a lot each time. I watched every seasons before watching the last one and I did not regret it!
Absolutely loved this series from start to finish, the ending can be seen as a little bit of a let down but I found it very satisfactory. If you are looking for a high fantasy series to get in to then this show is definitely for you. It's full of complex storylines and amazing script writing.
The acting by this massive cast is also superb, some of my favourite being, Emilia Clark as Danerys Targeryen, Maisie Williams, as Arya Stark, Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark, and Lena Headey as Queen Cersei, and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister but honestly every actor stood out in their own right.
some episodes are slow throughout the eight seasons but it's definitely worth it when you reach the big battle sequences such as the Battle of the Bastards in S6 and the battle of Castle Black in S4.
Look below to find a more in depth review.
Season 1: I will admit that the show took my a little while to get off with and I think that it is down to the slow start of season 1. We are introduced to a mass amount of characters including the entire Stark family and the Lannisters among others. I struggled to understand what was going on for a while but still found mass enjoyment from the show. It really picked up in this season for me at around episode 5 when we have the whole crown of gold scene - this first established for me that Game of Thrones knows no bounds and that is why it became the iconic staple of fantasy television that it is today.
Season 2: I found season 2 to be rather slow if I'm being completely honest, sitting here and writing this review I can't think of any major that happened in this season apart from the battle in about episode 9. The amazing acting and storytelling did still persist however. I just found everything to have a slower build.
Season 3: This is where my love for Game of Thrones became well and truly established, we had so many amazing moments here. From Danaerys gaining the unsullied, and showing her true power as heir to the iron throne, to the Red Wedding near the end of the season. This season had so many iconic and heartwrenchincg moments.
Season 4: Such a great season with so many great moments but sitting here, thinking back on season 4 all I can think about is how great the battle of castle black was and that is my best memory of this season.
Season 5: I only have one thing to say about this season and that is: where the hell was Bran?
Season 6: Hands down the peak of Game of Thrones. Iconic moment after iconic moment including the Battle of the Bastards and the Destruction of the Sept of Baelor. We also got a lot of Aryas character arc in this season which I loved.
Season 7: Notably this is where Game of Thrones started to take a step down. It hit it's peak with season 6 but it's still going strong. The standout moment of this season however is Olenna Tyrell's confession to Jamie.
Season 8: The most hated season of TV in history but I have to say I didn't mind it. With a show like Game of Thrones they were always going to struggle to find that perfect ending so they chose something and they went with it and whilst I don't think many of the choices they made here were great ones I saw that because of how great the show had been I don't think it was destined to have that brilliant ending. The main thing about this season that annoyed me though is how much of a broken record Jon Snow was. How many times could we hear him say, 'You are my Queen'
It's Goooooood. Really just watch it. The hype is real
average second season. we hope for good third
And here it is: the end of the biggest television show of all time.
Seasons 1-4 are (close to) perfect.
Seasons 5-6 are where some of the cracks start to appear, with some filler episodes that don't build a lot of character. However, they're still great seasons nonetheless.
Seasons 7-8 are good, not great. They have certain pacing (rushed developments, teleportation of characters) and writing issues (plot armour, unsatisfying & unearned conclusions etc.). It is especially the level of production that elevates these seasons above average television.
Am I also unsatisfied with how they handled certain characters at the very end? Absolutely.
Do I think, however, that they mostly stuck the landing? Yes.
S1: 9.5/10; S2: 9/10; S3: 9.5/10; S4: 10/10; S5: 8/10; S6: 8/10; S7: 7/10; S8: 7/10
Overall rating: 8.4/10
starting to hate this series but can't keep on watching wat a conundrum
First 4 seasons were really good, 5 and 6 have their problems but 7 is when it gets a lot worse. (Season 8 doesn't exist lol).
Don't think I would ever rewatch this because I know how terribly it ends.
And NO WAY I'm hearing anyone out who says this is better than Breaking Bad, that show was perfect from start to finish. How are you gonna compare BB to a show, that has 8 seasons and the writing goes to shit after 4 seasons?
Trainwreck...
(Don't mind me, just thinking out loud)
Somebody asked me,"should i watch it? i hear the last season was awful". You absolutely should. The last season is bad mostly by comparison and by its own high standards, but the series was declining in quality since it stopped following the books, so it was expected (for me at least). This is the greatest fantasy series ever and one of the greatest of any kind. A must watch.
Worst show of all time. Fantasy garbage with that typical HBO porn trash flare. Pass on it or just hate watch it. Very poor show.
It would honestly be a regret if I haven't still watched Game of Thrones by now. Gladly I did, and it's marvelous! ✌
Seasons 1-4 - Excellent
Season 5 - Meh
Season 6 - Great
Season 7 - Meh
Season 8 - Dumpster fire
This is like Mass effect games. Mostly amazing, sometimes disappointing...with an ending that ruins the entire ride.
Out of all the fan theories that circulated over the years, you would be hard pressed to find one that was dumber and more disappointing than what the actual final season turned out to be. You would be better off watching Cats the movie in its place, because then you would at least be able to laugh and cringe rather than feel immeasurable disappointment and emptiness.
If you can stop yourself from watching the entire show, you might do well watching seasons one through seven and picking your favourite fan theory to close out the series. Truthfully, even seasons five, six and seven were weaker than the first half of the show, but at the time it seemed forgivable because of the show's strong beginning and the expectation that everything would tie together nicely at the end.
Those foolish enough to watch to the end will be faced with an experience similar to the five stages of grief and loss as they make their way through the final episodes. Denial that this episode is actually part of the series and not an out of season April Fool's joke. Anger that you let yourself get so invested in this show after refusing to get on the bandwagon for so many years. Bargaining, that these were fake episodes to "subvert your expectations", or that the season could be remade. Depression, that this is actually the real thing and it somehow turned out so poorly. Finally, acceptance. Just an empty feeling, no anger or sadness over increasingly stupid and illogical scenes and outcomes. Just coming to terms with this really being the end of the show and this somehow managing to get released.
It comes together about as well as a project finished in the last hour of the last day before a deadline, despite having had vast resources to pull from over the two preceding years. The only remotely redeemable aspect of the final season is the endless amount of hilarious critical reviews and memes that come at its expense.
As for the rating, it would be unfair to give a give a 1 the entire series as a whole because of the incompetence of the writers in the final season. The series did start strong and everyone involved in the project aside from the writers obviously invested a lot of time and quality work into the show. The acting, music composition, cinematography, editing, visual effects, etc. all ranged from great to amazing.
Peak show ( S1-4 are the best piece of media )
Seasons 1 to 4 were arguably among the best TV ever created. But the show steadily went downhill after they went past the books and it became clear the writers were in way over their heads. Seasons 5 and 6 were decent, season 7 was bad, and season 8 was one of the worst seasons of television ever put to screen. Just unbelievable. D & D should seriously rethink their career choices after that finale.
First 4 seasons, perfect narrative, dialogue and consequence. 10/10. Seasons 5 and 6, complete dip in all around quality with enough published foreshadowing and plot points from George to get by. 7/10. Seasons 7 and 8, dumpster fire with zero narrative consequences, no consistent character action nor any redeemable arc conclusions. The cinematography and production earns the entirety of the final seasons 4/10. Impossible to give this "complete" story anything above a 7. Completely betrays the characters and the audience.
"Last season sucked!"
"The end sucks!"
Sorry, I prefer to be positive and as someone who is involved in the creative work as a writer I think that they made their best. You can have your opinion, that's mine!
An amazing show tainted by disappointing deviations from the source material and two absolutely awful last seasons. Bad last seasons will always ruin a show for me if the show is intended to portrait a continuous story with ever evolving characters and plot lines. The ending is as important as the beginning if you are trying to tell me a story. The ending of Game of Thrones was a joke, some of the worst writing I have ever witnessed on TV, the show was ruined and honestly at this point I just want to forget about it. The fans deserved better. George R R Martin deserved better. The people that worked on the show deserved better. It's what you get when a show is made hostage by two horrible writers that are in a hurry to ruin Star Wars next. I honestly wouldn't recommend this show to anyone anymore unless they don't mind getting massively disappointed with the last 20 episodes or so.
If you enjoyed the finale, power to you, but this is my opinion. Game of Thrones is a show I don't intend to watch ever again. Hopefully HBO wont ruin the prequels/spin-offs although I don't think I care anymore.
After reviewing the 8 seasons individually and averaging my personal scores it gets a 7.4 out of 10 from me, it's a shame because the first four seasons were close to being perfect.
Plot (Story Arc and Plausibility): 9,2/10
Personal Enjoyment (Premise & Entertainment Value): 9,6/10
Acting (Characters Performance): 10/10
Cinematography (Environment, Setting, and Wardrobe): 10/10
Editing (Pace & Effects): 9,5/10
Music and Sound (Sound Design & Film Score): 10/10
Story (Vision & Execution): 9,9/10
Characters: 10/10
Protagonist: 9/10
Antagonist: 9,5/10
Deuteragonist: 10/10
Ending: 3/10
Season 1. 9/10
Season 2. 10/10
Season 3. 9,3/10
Season 4. 10/10
Season 5. 9/10
Season 6. 9,4/10
Season 7. 9,3/10
Season 8. 6,5/10
Overall Assessment: 9,3/10
Big loss... it was one of my favourites until sixth season. I really loved it so I'm really disgusted because they basically ruin it... they had a great story, great actors... great all! And at the end they fucked it.
Fantastic Brilliant and Awesome to watch from start to End
"Game of Thrones" is a dark fantasy story about the way in which power corrupts, and everyone, even our biggest heroes, fail us. It is fantasy, but it is adult fantasy. Highly political, violent, dark, and sexual. What makes "Game of Thrones" so great though is that it has created an incredibly epic fantasy world, but still seems so similar to our own. Most of the show is about human desire, and what they will do for love, power and sex. "Game of Thrones" is full of great writing, fantastic character development, awesome build up, and powerful, intense scenes of action, suspense, and emotion. Unfortunately, "Game of Thrones" falls completely off a cliff when it hits season 8, which likely is the only reason it got a 9 instead of a 10 for me. I understand why for some people this ruined the show, but for me, seasons 1-7 were probably the best television I have ever watched (or very close to), and to me, "Game of Thrones" remains an amazing accomplishment.
This show could have been my favorite if it wasn't for the unfortunately bad final season
Finished series the night it ended.
first few seasons are an 11/10, just astounding world building and enthralling characters. the ending definitely screws the pooch and frankly almost ruins the entire thing, but it's still worth a watch
It really hooks you on. The story, the characters.. Everything was perfect, until the end got too confusing me to handle, no idea why they eventually decided to go that way with the ending. Anyways it was a blast watching this.
They managed... by the gods, they managed to fuck it up!
The first 6.5 seasons were really great, often truly amazing. The last 1.5 seasons were poor. The last 1 season was terrible. The last 0.5 season was just an utter disappointment that made me really sad. Overall, still one of the best TV series in the world.
For me, it's the best show ever even with the sharp decline after they ran out of original source material
season 1: good adaptation of a good book. great casting. 8/10
season 2: massive drop in quality. many character arcs butchered. at least the broader strokes are fairly accurately adapted. 6/10
season 3: bad adaptational choices continue but generally the character arcs are better. 7/10
season 4: the material being adapted is the best so far but the adaptational choices are the worst as well. 6/10
season 5: why. why would they adapt two of the most complex books in the series in 1 season. everything is rushed and terrible. jon's story is the best of these but it's still vastly inferior to the book. some truly baffling adaptational choices here. 3/10
season 6: on the surface this is a step-up in quality... but this season feels incredibly artificial. there is so much fanservice crammed in here that it's borderline offensive. this show doesn't resemble george's story anymore. this is an incredibly overrated season. relies on "wow!! cool moment" to mask how fucking vacuous it is. 4/10
season 7: lmao what the fuck is this. this is awful. this is bad fan fiction. absolutely shameful. 1/10
season 8: one good episode. at least we got the broad strokes of the ending if george never finishes asoiaf. funny how people only started noticing the show's problems in the final season. seriously? it's been bad for 4 seasons and season 7 was worse. something tells me that people are just angry they didn't get the fanservice ending they wanted. not that im gonna defend this season, its terrible, but its better than season 7 at least. 2/10
Amazing if you only watch Seasons 1-3.
Many episodes are really boring, especially in the early seasons.Some other are really good but they are not so musch, however is highly overrated
Undoubtedly one of the best series I've ever seen. Everything on the show is amazing, the way the director adapted the book for the cinema was spectacular.
Epic series!
My best recommended TV show ever.
The Stark mongrels all deserved to be deskinned just as much as all the Lannister subhumans. That's about all I have to say about this show. Sansa Stark may have been the most vile of them all. Everyone knew what the Lannisters were, but she connivingly worked her way into an undeserved seat of power. She should've had her skull bashed in, instead. At the end, the people of color and a woman win two wars and bring peace to the realm, and the whites decide to betray and murder the woman, and tell the people of color that they'll die, if they enforce justice for the murder of their queen. They should've slaughtered all those white mongrel subhumans right there in the dragon pit, starting w/ the Starks.
The ending is good, actually.
5/5 Rating for the entire series and overall review: A show like this was always going to end in a way that wouldn’t please everyone, but Game of Thrones really polarized viewers and critics alike with how everything got wrapped up. Like Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it became very trendy to just dismiss it all as unequivocally rubbish. But like that infamous Star Wars film, the truth of Game of Thrones is more complicated and not as bad as some say. Overall, this is without a doubt one of the best series ever made, and one I was majorly obsessed with throughout the past decade. Pretty clearly seasons 1-4 and 6 are where most of the best episodes reside. Below is a breakdown of general thoughts about each season.
Season 1
Not one of my favorites until years later when a rewatch with perspective on where the show went reveals a restrained, wonderfully written introductory season with complex, developed characters and increasingly dramatic political deceptions in the second half that gives way to the more anarchic and scattered later seasons. 10/10 Best episode: Baelor
Season 2
Has a lot of strengths and also ups the brutality from season 1, especially in the first half of the season. I love how dark and increasingly fantasy-centered this season is, with an incredible battle episode to cap it off. However, I have to deduct a point for butchering the amazing Danaerys in the House of the Undying scene from the second book, A Clash of Kings, and the muddled climax to Jon’s storyline where he gets captured by the wildings, which is far more exciting in the book. 9/10 Best episode: Blackwater
Season 3
The fan favorite, this fantastic season sets up the increased action and face-offs that’re plentiful in season 4. The Rob Stark storyline and tragic ending to him and his mother is heart wrenching, and I absolutely love all the amazing Icelandic scenery throughout. I don’t like the Theon dungeon scenes in the middle episodes, but everything else being so perfect still means this is a 10/10 season. Best episode: tied with The Rains of Castamere and Kissed by Fire.
Season 4
Perhaps the juiciest season yet, comprising of the climactic second half of A Storm of Swords, the best book of all five. Suffice it to say, there are numerous highlights across nearly all episodes, especially involving Tyrion Lannister. Really no weak moments aside from maybe 1-2 random scenes. The season that cemented the show as one of the all-time greats. 10/10 Best episode: The Lion and the Rose, with The Mountain and the Viper, The Laws of Gods and Men, The Children, and The Watchers on the Wall as runner-ups.
Season 5
Oof, this season was a doozy which began the second half of the series with fallout from all that happened in seasons 3 and 4. 5 here meanders around from one miserable nightmare of an episode to another, including Sansa and Theon's storylines, Jon Snow and what eventually happens to him, and Stannis and his daughter. The only real highlight is Hardhome, and I suppose the final scene in the following episode with Drogon escaping captivity in the gladiator arena. 8/10 Best episode Hardhome, duh.
Season 6
The other side of the coin that was season 5. Season 6 is a monumental achievement, finally doing away with the unnecessary “sexposition” and rivaling 4 for being an amazing climax of a season with one highlight episode after another. Sure the Arya storyline is weak, but literally everything else is excellent. High 10/10 with Hold the Door, Battle of the Bastards, and The Winds of Winter all tied for best episode in the season and basically of the whole series.
Season 7
Aaaand here’s where it starts to go downhill. But there are still some amazing moments to be found! The Loot Train Attack and Lady Olenna’s final appearance are without question two of the finest scenes of the entire series. The Beyond the Wall episode is full-on fantasy schlock, but at least it’s fun and enjoyable to watch so I don’t mind. I also like how the extended season finale emphasized character interactions and development, which was very interesting to watch. 7/10 Best episode The Spoils of War
Season 8
A shaky final season with filler episodes and some bewildering climactic episodes too. The Long Night was well executed, but felt anticlimactic after just how much the show built up the white walkers, and they don’t even fight any humans the whole time! The real problem though is with The Bells, a miserable slog where Dany suddenly decides to be a violent mass murderer because seeing the capital of King's Landing made her crazy? Why didn’t she just fly over there and burn it down with Cersei inside and then declare herself queen, instead of doing what she ended up doing. I’ve heard some say she was slowly getting crazy but we didn’t notice, like making her dragons execute people, but come on. It’s an insane jump to go from executing traitorous prisoners of war to slaughtering a city of innocent people. And Grey Worm immediately joining in on it is even more far-fetched. I don’t know, all of that just didn’t work for me. It was well done on a technical level, but I just did not buy the writing on The Bells. The final episode I actually like, call me crazy. Was a nice breather after all the aforementioned craziness, the dragon melting the iron throne was a series highlight, and I thought where all the characters were left was satisfying. I rate this season 6/10 with the best episode being the series finale, The Iron Throne.
Top 25 episodes ranked: 1. Battle of the Bastards 2. Hardhome 3. The Door 4. The Winds of Winter 5. Baelor 6. The Lion and the Rose 7. Blackwater 8. The Mountain and the Viper 9. The Spoils of War 10. The Rains of Castamere 11. You Win or You Die 12. Kissed by Fire 13. The Laws of Gods and Men 14. The Children 15. And Now His Watch is Ended 16. A Golden Crown 17. The Watchers on the Wall 18. Oathkeeper 19. The Wolf and the Lion 20. First of His Name 21. Two Swords 22. Book of the Stranger 23. Winter is Coming 24. The Queen’s Justice 25. Second Sons
After season 1 I couldn't get back into it. I didn't like how season 1 ended and it was hard to continue watching season 2 because it was a bit boring. After a few years and seeing others praise this show so much I wanted to see what it was about. It was hard to get through season 2, but it was worth it. The seasons afterwards were amazing. This is one of my favorite shows now and I'm glad I've finished it.
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One of the very best shows!