Contemporary · North America · Culture
2019
Game of Thrones ends
May 17, 2019
HBO's ten-year medieval fantasy epic, the closest thing television had produced to a global synchronous water-cooler event, concluded with a season so disappointing that fans started a petition to remake it. Eighteen million people watched the finale anyway. The era of must-see television, in any unified sense, ended that night.
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Era
Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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