Game of Thrones

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Season 8
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 17, 2011
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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4.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1574 Ratings

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  1. Aleklar
    Aug 3, 2023
    10
    This Season is perfect I don't understand this hate this is game of thrones
  2. Mw2503
    Jul 31, 2023
    0
    This season had much potential. They took a very good story and turned it to trash
  3. Soulshocker
    Jul 14, 2023
    0
    I'll always be DISGUSTED and appalled by the creators of the show, for what they did to Daenerys. They took a decade-long story of freedom, strength, and hope, and transformed it into a grotesque descent into madness and despair. This is only a TV show, but it affects the psyche and ideas of people. Shame on them. Where are the stories of hope and positive messages these days? I truly feelI'll always be DISGUSTED and appalled by the creators of the show, for what they did to Daenerys. They took a decade-long story of freedom, strength, and hope, and transformed it into a grotesque descent into madness and despair. This is only a TV show, but it affects the psyche and ideas of people. Shame on them. Where are the stories of hope and positive messages these days? I truly feel this was done just to break the spirits of people.… Expand
  4. Fixer84
    Mar 16, 2023
    8
    It's not all to throw away! While it's undeniable that this is the worst season of Game of Thrones, it's only insignificant when compared to the others. The problem with this eighth and final season is that Game of Thrones had accustomed us all too well. And therefore, when the show goes down, even if it doesn't do it in a disastrous way, the public, especially the generalist one,It's not all to throw away! While it's undeniable that this is the worst season of Game of Thrones, it's only insignificant when compared to the others. The problem with this eighth and final season is that Game of Thrones had accustomed us all too well. And therefore, when the show goes down, even if it doesn't do it in a disastrous way, the public, especially the generalist one, perceives it as an insult and a havoc.… Expand
  5. Dracoshi
    Nov 1, 2022
    2
    In terms of visuals, CGI, music, cinematography, budget, etc., this season is incredible. But the writing and storytelling is absolutely horrendous. I have never seen such an incredible show be butchered so shamelessly. For that reason I really cannot rank this season any higher than 2/10, because Game of Thrones was previously the pinnacle of incredible writing and storytelling.
  6. Serenn
    Oct 25, 2022
    3
    The points I give it are for the acting skills. Definitely not for the story line and writing
  7. Bruterake
    Mar 19, 2022
    6
    Olha.... Até o episódio 3 tava bom, tava divertido e tal, só que depois dele nada faz sentido é estranho ninguém age como normalmente ia agir sl tudo errado mas ainda achei ok deu pra se divertir e entendo a correria pra acabar a série.
  8. Onlyclassicvg1
    Mar 8, 2022
    6
    So basically my other account, which had this video on it, got banned or whatever you call it. I was very upset. But despite this fact, I'm re-uploading this video for Joonas Hahmo becau
  9. Haandy
    Feb 13, 2022
    10
    Pra a última temporada foi bom ate a longa noite, a destruição de Westeros foi boa também, mas o resto pode no lixo
  10. All_ButTrU4
    Dec 12, 2021
    3
    A far cry. A grave disappointment of rushed ideas in the penultimate season of a saga of dramatic growth. It plays like a shock exercise and spoils previous seasons. .
  11. hadear
    May 22, 2021
    2
    Sometimes I stop and try to think of ways the showrunners could have ruined Game of Thrones more than they did in this season. Somehow, I can never, ever find an answer for that.
  12. Fearinator
    May 8, 2021
    1
    I don’t think it’s possible to have written a worse ending to this brilliant brilliant series. It’s so incredibly horrible I actually believe they tanked it on purpose. I’ll never understand how they could have let this happen... even the actors in interviews about the last season are visibly disturbed about how it ended.
  13. KingCrimsonfan
    Apr 24, 2021
    10
    Good ending. Yeah maybe too hard to admit for some dramatic and purist people but it was good. Yeah some errors here and there, but overall the quality and the feeling was good. Maybe a decade later people will understand the genius and uniqueness of this show.
  14. manningn15
    Apr 17, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think that I might be in the minority of fans because yes there were things I would have changed but that is with most seasons of most shows and overall I really enjoyed this last season and it is one of my favorite final seasons of all time. The lead acting was phenomenal especially from Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rory McCann, Kristofer Hivju, Iain Glen, Isaac Hempstead Wright and Alfie Allen. Pilou Asbæk, Nathalie Emmanuel, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Gemma Whelan, Jacob Anderson, Bella Ramsey, Tobias Menzies, Daniel Portman, Jerome Flynn, and Conleth Hill gave outstanding supporting performances. Carice van Houten and Joe Dempsie gave excellent guest performances. The visual effects were exceptional especially in the scene where Jon and Daenerys were riding on Drogon and Rhaegal, the scene where Drogon melts the Iron Throne, and the scene where Viserion was attacking Winterfell, the dragons Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal are the best visual effects I have ever seen in a TV show. The costumes wore by Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Lena Headey, Carice van Houten, Kit Harington, Nathalie Emmanuel, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, John Bradley, Alfie Allen, Isaac Hempstead Wright, and Kirstofer Hivju were remarkable. The makeup and hairstyling was stupendous especially on Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Carice van Houten, Nathalie Emmanuel, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Kristofer Hivju, Pilou Asbæk, Maisie Williams, Lena Headey, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Gwendoline Christie, Alfie Allen, Isaac Hempstead Wright, John Bradley, Hannah Murray, and Gemma Whelan. The music was superb as always, the opening theme is my favorite opening theme of all time. The writing was great but there were only a few things I didn't like like the way Rhaegal and Missandei we're killed and I didn't like how Daenerys was turned into a tyrant and killed but overall I loved this season and it was another A+ season and I can say that this is my 2nd favorite TV series of all time and always will be.… Expand
  15. mytvcritic
    Apr 16, 2021
    10
    This season is really underrated. i dont wanna say its great but it has its own moments that real fans wil enjoy it. And the acting and atomsphere is really good like other seasons. Especially episode 3 that has got great visuals and its thrilling as hell. overall it was a good ending not a bad one for sure. People should not be so dramatic about it.
  16. tvhomebound
    Apr 13, 2021
    10
    When a series reaches this level of quality and popularity its hard to satisfy the enormous amount of fans. And with the massive plot that GOT had, it really made it impossible to make a perfect ending. But i think season 8 had its own moments, which some of them was really great. like episode 2 , which i think its in the top ten episodes of the series. And in other episodes, apart fromWhen a series reaches this level of quality and popularity its hard to satisfy the enormous amount of fans. And with the massive plot that GOT had, it really made it impossible to make a perfect ending. But i think season 8 had its own moments, which some of them was really great. like episode 2 , which i think its in the top ten episodes of the series. And in other episodes, apart from some minor and major errors in writing, we had the best level of acting , directing and composing. overall my real rating for this season is 8 but because many people acted dramatically and gave it very low ratings i'll give it a 10 .… Expand
  17. Rebel_Panda
    Feb 24, 2021
    0
    Awful! I hated this season. It was by far the worst one. Game of Thrones will go down in history as the greatest decline in writing quality of all time.

    I used to love this show, the story, characters, the sprawling setting. It's one of the first series that really made me care and root for the characters. Even the irredeemably evil ones were still exciting to watch. But that all changed    Awful! I hated this season. It was by far the worst one. Game of Thrones will go down in history as the greatest decline in writing quality of all time.

    I used to love this show, the story, characters, the sprawling setting. It's one of the first series that really made me care and root for the characters. Even the irredeemably evil ones were still exciting to watch.

    But that all changed with the final season. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, its commonly known that George RR Martin has not released his final book of the franchise. The final two seasons were all HBO original content, and they could maintain the story in passable quality during the seventh season. However, when it came to ending the story it is rushed, anticlimactic, and immeasurably disappointing.

    Characters started acting stupid, or just entirely unlike themselves. Loved heroes become confusingly insane, they lost all semblance of motivations from past seasons and suddenly became totally different people. The writer's excuse? A new motivation from past seasons is written in to skip development, in other words, retcons galore.

    The dialogue became inanely simplistic or just repetitive and boring. So little of importance is ever said. Characters just stare off in the distance vacantly, then occasionally they make the most observances that anyone could have inferred on their own. What happened to the complex script full of setups, payoffs, and humanly written characters?

    The only thing left to do now is scrub the awful ending out of my head by rewatching the past six seasons. Then I'll wait for George RR Martin to release the true ending because this is an absolute disgrace. D&D spit in the faces of millions of GOT fans. The best recommendation I can give this show is to watch the first six seasons (and the seventh if you want to test your patience) then forget about season eight.    … Expand
  18. Boman121
    Feb 6, 2021
    0
    This season ruined the entire series, it is so disrespectful of Ben and Dave to do something like this to a perfect 10/10 series. They rushed through the entire season. I really wonder who’s idea it was to “take away every single good aspect of the series and replace it with sloppy writing, bad dialogue and also somehow manage to make every single good character into annoying ass peasants.This season ruined the entire series, it is so disrespectful of Ben and Dave to do something like this to a perfect 10/10 series. They rushed through the entire season. I really wonder who’s idea it was to “take away every single good aspect of the series and replace it with sloppy writing, bad dialogue and also somehow manage to make every single good character into annoying ass peasants. I really hope Ben and Dave can’t sleep well anymore because they don’t deserve anything else.… Expand
  19. Ahendy
    Dec 26, 2020
    4
    Terrible ending. A few good episodes but I just can’t accept this as canon.
  20. the_geoffrey
    Nov 22, 2020
    2
    The most disastrous ending to one of the greatest stories of all time. David and Dan stink.
  21. JonSnow2049
    Sep 10, 2020
    6
    ame of Thrones did not nail the ending. The last three episodes of this season failed due to poor writing. The show hasn't been the same since the end of season four but always managed to be great and in some instances, best of the best. For example, the final two episodes of season six are two of the best episodes in the entire series. However, you must have great writing to end a seriesame of Thrones did not nail the ending. The last three episodes of this season failed due to poor writing. The show hasn't been the same since the end of season four but always managed to be great and in some instances, best of the best. For example, the final two episodes of season six are two of the best episodes in the entire series. However, you must have great writing to end a series that started out with it. You can have the best directing, acting, cinematography, & lighting but it means nothing if the story cannot support it. Unfortunately, this is what happened. Everything besides the writing was great and it's almost as if D&D no longer cared and just wanted to end it. Character arcs were completely ruined and rushed. Almost every core character had a disappointing end and even some were completely forgotten or abandoned. Overall, the show is still great and on of the best every made. It's just a shame the ending is weak compared to what came before. Its could be much better.… Expand
  22. matheuscassol
    Jul 28, 2020
    0
    I don't know a single Game of Thrones fan that could not write a better final season to the show. This season is a remarkable piece of garbage, that managed to ruin the entire series. The characters are two dimensional and plain stupid now. The plot armor is so thick that you literally watch your favorite characters die and continue alive, specially in episode 3. And the plot itself isI don't know a single Game of Thrones fan that could not write a better final season to the show. This season is a remarkable piece of garbage, that managed to ruin the entire series. The characters are two dimensional and plain stupid now. The plot armor is so thick that you literally watch your favorite characters die and continue alive, specially in episode 3. And the plot itself is pure treason. Not the good kind of treason, but treason to us, the fans.

    Battle strategy? Let's charge into the enemy army in the dark for no reason!
    Night King's motivation? He's just an evil blue dude!
    Character development? Screw that! Let's go for shock value even if it does not make any sense!
    Who is going to be the king? Bran, VOTED by Tyrion, who is sentenced to death (?) and somehow can decide who the king is (??)

    Oh god. It is simply a 0/10. Should be a -10/10 because it really ruins the rest of the show.    … Expand
  23. Th2231708
    Jul 4, 2020
    1
    Poor writing, illogical plot line, underwhelming. Great performances, beautiful production. This season has all the tools to become the best thing on television, yet it ended up being a pile of steamy poo.
  24. jackaz15
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Game of Thrones' rushed final chapter lacks intricate and organic storytelling, leaving behind wasted opportunities and squandered goodwill in its fiery wake; however, it coherently wraps up (most) character arcs and twists the knife in enough unexpected ways to end on a reasonably satisfying note, all while providing the cinematic entertainment fans have come to expect.
  25. calcal2019
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Terrible terrible Terrible terrible Terrible Terrible terrible Terrible terrible Terrible Terrible terrible Terrible terrible Terrible Terrible terrible Terrible terrible TerribleTerrible terrible Terrible terrible Terrible terrible terrible… Expand
  26. nburke91
    Jun 15, 2020
    1
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  27. thesaxmaniac
    Apr 26, 2020
    0
    Imagine waiting 10 years to have someone give you a Ferrari and instead they poop on your face.
  28. Diptanshu
    Apr 3, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. everything was awesome until after episode 3!start was good with building up for real identity of jon snow and war with dead,every character felt complete with arc at last yet jamies journey was awesome the things he been through until he went to die with cersei felt very bad ending to the greatest villian of tv history died with rocks!episode 3 was absouletly awesome with score and fight and aryas blow,even for ep5 it can work the manner of potrayal of the scene what made it teribble to watch!somehow we can digest yaa cersei was better than dany then too ending for her felt incomplete the iron throne fired up was good thing and main thing happened offcourse that the reason to fight even after all that the gathering of everyone was awesome at episode 3 and at last the bran will be king was a great thing too the ending with the trio was awesome and felt complete as there ambition was acheieved satisfing ending of episode with the trio yet felt dissapoint for whole season and ending of whole series!everything was awesome score,acting,screenplay only the story was concered they should approach with other way or with same story should be treated with nice buildup should be worth the series ending perfectly!overall a non satisfying conclusion to a greatest series of all time!… Expand
  29. visiblelight7
    Dec 28, 2019
    3
    The show was a masterpiece until season 8. Its like they decided to take a dump on the entire story. It was rushed and ruined. Biggest disapointment in cinema history imo
  30. FranzHcritic
    Dec 20, 2019
    0
    How can you effectively analyze the biggest "what the f**k" in television. I didn't even feel like reviewing but I still have a conscience. This is the biggest middle finger, slap in the face, kick in the nuts, stab in the back, shot to the head Benioff and Weiss could have done. It squashes two seasons into six episodes and flushes seven seasons worth of character arcs down the toilet toHow can you effectively analyze the biggest "what the f**k" in television. I didn't even feel like reviewing but I still have a conscience. This is the biggest middle finger, slap in the face, kick in the nuts, stab in the back, shot to the head Benioff and Weiss could have done. It squashes two seasons into six episodes and flushes seven seasons worth of character arcs down the toilet to join the cesspool of jump the shark shows. The Emmy's reputation in my eyes is about as intact as the Titanic is today lying on the bottom of the ocean. F**k Benioff, f**k Weiss, f**k the Emmy's and HBO, and f**k me for even getting invested into this show.… Expand
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#61 Best TV Season of 2019
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#27 Most Shared TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Dec 3, 2019
    80
    The premiere pulled everyone and everything together; it was, for the most part, an almost nostalgic hour. ... It is the competing loyalties, the loves and enmities that enmesh the Lannisters, Starks, Targaryens and the rest, after all, and the questions Game of Thrones poses about conscience and corruption and the manifestations of power, that will propel us through to the end.
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  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    Apr 15, 2019
    30
    As in season 7, the big problem with “Winterfell”—the reason it felt more like an unlucky videographer’s rendering of an exceptionally dysfunctional family reunion than like a carefully crafted story—was the pacing.
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  3. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Apr 14, 2019
    100
    The show has stepped up its pacing. For the most part, that has been immensely satisfying, yielding crowd-pleasing moments that the and that the series generally avoided in the often-grim journey, especially for the Stark kids, which has led to this point.
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