© Home Box Office Narrative transportation The third season’s premiere was the most simultaneously shared file in the history of the BitTorrent file-sharing network, with more than 160,000 sharers.Īrya, the first of many. It recently became HBO’s most popular programme to date, overtaking The Sopranos with an average audience of more than 18m viewers per episode, and has gathered 4m viewers since the last season.Īnd that’s not to mention piracy. The Game of Thrones saga has generated the kind of hype which most Hollywood blockbusters can only dream of. But such escapism has a social import, too. The sequence of doorstop fantasy novels that George R R Martin began with A Game of Thrones provides the sort of immersive experience of an alien world that has always been popular. There are to be more series, and possibly even films.
So unsurprisingly, that won’t be the last you’ll see of it.
The fourth season of Game of Thrones has gripped scores of people with its epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, dragons and dire wolves, incursions and sieges, plots and betrayals, battlefield brilliance and cunning with coin.
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