HBO’s Game of Thrones may just be the last traditional water-cooler TV show to actually air week to week on a premium cable channel. As media channels, including HBO itself, move inevitably toward streaming content, and as attention spans and relevancy windows get shorter and shorter, we’re also moving away from signature series that take over just about every conversation in the real world. This … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: A Dragon Vies for the Throne in the Final Season Poster!! Check It Out!!

Game of Thrones Season 8 may not be so different from previous seasons, at least for the first two episodes. While speculation has run rampant that the six-episode final season would feature “super-sized” installments running over 60 minutes in length, the runtimes for the first two episodes have reportedly been revealed, and they’re perfectly in line with previous seasons. HBO’s schedule has revealed (via Winter … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: The First Two Season 8 Episodes May Not Be So Super-Sized After All!!!

The longest battle scene on film right now is probably Helm’s Deep in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. But the final season of Game of Thrones promises to beat that 40-minute epic with its episode-long battle at Winterfell where our heroes—”Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), and Brienne of … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: New Details on the Grueling Production for The Battle of Winterfell Arrive!!

Throughout most of its run, HBO has released Game of Thrones posters that tease, say, faces of death or who might sit on the Iron Throne. The posters for the show’s eight and final season really double as both; it’s a reminder of the more minor characters you might have temporarily forgotten about during the hiatus, which is also to say “here’s a list of … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: HBO Reveals 20 New Character Posters!!! Check It Out!!

At last! The first official images of Game of Thrones Season 8 have arrived, as HBO gives us a glimpse of our favorites in beautiful character portraits (probably with the spoilery stuff precisely cropped). How many will be left standing by the series finale? Well, probably very few. But for now, we can gaze upon the wonderful costuming, and an image of an aunt and … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8: First Images Tease the Beginning of the End!! Check It Out!!

We’re still months away from Game of Thrones‘ eighth and final season, but the Hype’s Watch is already on the look-out for any and all info on the HBO mega-hit’s return. The latest comes from HBO CEO Richard Plepler, who revealed to Variety after the 76th Golden Globe Awards that he’s seen rough cuts of all six upcoming episodes. According to Plepler, each installment feels like its … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Feels Like “Six Movies”, Says HBO CEO!!!

As the show’s budget has increased over the years, it has had bigger and better battle sequences. It’s almost amusing to think back to Season 1 where the big battles always happened off screen, and now they’re the centerpieces for entire seasons. But the show has been building to one battle in particular, where everyone must band together and fight the Army of the Dead. … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: Army of the Dead Battle Will Be Wall-to-Wall Action!!!

The final season of Game of Thrones will arrive next year, and the publicity machine is already kicking into gear. EW just released a massive cover story packed with tidbits about the show’s conclusion and what led to certain decisions along the way. One of the more notable reveals is that at one point, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff considered ending the show with … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Producers Considered Ending Series with a Trilogy of Movies!!!

Entertainment Weekly has revealed a first look at the upcoming eighth and final season of HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones on the cover of its latest issue which features Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington); take a look here: Inside the issue, co-executive producer Bryan Cogman discusses the theme of the final season, stating that: “It’s about all of these disparate … Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’: EW offers First Look At The Final Season!! Check It Out!!