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The Iron Throne Rusted: How Game of Thrones Collapsed and Why Its Spinoffs Can't Revive It
There is a particular kind of disappointment reserved for things that were genuinely great before they failed. Game of Thrones at its peak — roughly seasons one through four, with season six as a late rally — was the most ambitious television drama ever produced. It did things no prestige show had attempted: it killed its protagonist in the first season, it made political consequence feel real and permanent, it treated its audience as adults capable of holding complexity.