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Few television series have captured the country’s attention and imagination like “Bet on Thrones.” Other shows are as complex (like “Lost” or “Westworld”) and צימרים בצפון other shows have gotten rabid yet broad fandoms (think about the “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad”). But rare will be the show that is both.
Much press has got to equating the end of “Bet on Thrones” and no more “Marvel’s Avengers,” because neither has much else it compare to. Both are cultural touchstones in the decade, are multifaceted ensemble mysteries waiting to generally be revealed, are both ending nearly simultaneously, צימרים בצפון they are leaving a legacy of changing the media. And both elicit deep, honest emotion and connection from them fans. Fates of GoT Starks and Avengers Starks alike come like deaths within the family.
In this time of streaming and binging and social media that “Game of Thrones” grew up in, just what does which means that for צימרים בצפון shows to follow in the foreseeable future? How has “Game of Thrones” changed the way you watch TV?
The long ago playing field of 2011
When “Bet on Thrones” premiered on April 17, 2011, the media world was a different place. Netflix had only begun streaming video a couple of years prior and had been 2 yrs from creating its first original series, “House of Cards.” HBO Go (the app for subscribers) only agreed to be a year old and HBO Now (the app for non-subscribers) was 36 months away. Twitter had half users it will today. And the volume 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, צימרים בצפון 10 million under watch now.