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Few television series have captured the nation’s attention and imagination like “Bet on Thrones.” Other shows are as complex (like “Lost” or “Westworld”) and also other shows have gotten rabid yet broad fandoms (think in regards to the “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad”). But rare could be the show which was both.
Much press has gained to equating the end of “Bet on Thrones” and the end of “Marvel’s Avengers,” because neither has much else it compare to. Both are already cultural touchstones in the decade, צימרים בצפון they are multifaceted ensemble mysteries waiting to get revealed, צימרים בצפון they are ending nearly simultaneously, they are leaving a legacy of changing the media. And both elicit deep, honest emotion and connection from their fans. Fates of GoT Starks and Avengers Starks alike come like deaths from the family.
In this era of streaming and binging and social media that “Game of Thrones” spent my childhood years in, just what does that mean for shows to adhere to sooner or later? How has “Game of Thrones” changed the way we watch TV?
The some time past playing field of 2011
When “Bet on Thrones” premiered on April 17, צימרים בצפון 2011, the media world became a different place. Netflix had only begun streaming video a couple of years prior and had been couple of years from creating its first original series, “House of Cards.” HBO Go (the app for subscribers) only agreed to be a yr old and HBO Now (the app for צימרים בצפון non-subscribers) was four years away. Twitter had half your it lets you do today. And the number of scripted shows on TV was waiting to balloon by 86 percent, from 266 in 2011 to 495 in 2018. On that date, the GoT pilot garnered just 2.22 million viewers, 10 million under watch now.