The ‘Game of Thrones’ finale, while lacking, goes out on an important note: Stories matter
By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic May 20 at 1:07 AM Spoiler alert: This review discusses the details of the series finale of “Game of Thrones.”
Like most of this eighth and final season, it played as though creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had finally surrendered to the size of the story they set out to tell in 2011. Sailing bravely but blindly past the material laid out for them in George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novels, the last six episodes mostly acknowledged that “Game of Thrones” might never be entirely, perfectly wrapped up — unless by the books’ author himself.
After her last fire-spewing dragon fricasseed the population of King’s Landing in last week’s hideous genocide , she started spouting her ideologically murky plans for Westeros and beyond, where she and only she would be the judge of what is good. Jon had to kill her, and he did. Her bereaved dragon flew off with her body in its claws.
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