Game of Thrones
Shares rank 20 of 60 TV series by recommenders
Recommended for its strong early seasons and an unpredictable, complex world; critics say the later seasons lose character development and the ending is rushed.
Recommended for its strong early seasons and an unpredictable, complex world; critics say the later seasons lose character development and the ending is rushed.
43 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 26
- approval share
- 40%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong early seasons
“Game of Thrones was good for a few seasons, but half way through the fans started dropping almost as quickly as main characters.”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros” “the amazing (early on) TV series, and not the book”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “What will enter the public domain in 2026?” Did not follow a formula
“"Game of Thrones" was interesting because it did not follow any formula I could discern”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” “interesting because it did not follow any formula I could discern”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Character development dropped off later
“From that point on, everyone gets 10 inch thick plot armour, and then the last two episodes skip a whole season or two of character development”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings” “cut major character development to get to the pre determined ending”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros” “It's the way stuff is done, the characters' changed behavior, incomprehensible logic, stupid explanations”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings” Rushed, poorly tied-up ending
“My biggest grievance on the rewatch was just how poorly it's all tied up.”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings” “even if the TV series drove off a cliff at the end”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?” “it would have been an infinitely better ending than what they actually wrote into the show”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings” Episodes too dark to see
“telling us our TV settings were at fault when they decided to release an entire episode filmed in the dark”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings” “Could barely tell what was going on, everything was so dark, and black crush killed it completely”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings”
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The four most recommended other TV series, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halt and Catch Fire | 166 | 20 | 89% | 7 | — | Approved |
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| Silicon Valley (TV series) | 52 | 1 | 98% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Andor | 52 | 5 | 91% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Game of ThronesThis page | 17 | 26 | 40% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 43 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Game of Thrones ruined a generation of sci-fi and fantasy”
“Game of Thrones burned a generation of TV viewers”
“even if the TV series drove off a cliff at the end”
“GoT is undoubtedly more complex, interesting world, but it never had a generation of children reading the midnight book release”
“GoT didn't do anything really new, except wrap some porn around the various murder plots.”
“since Game of Thrones, it seems to have become an expectation that characters must be killed off”
“Have a look what happened to GoT when they ran out of original material.”
“a poor choice for the voting public to start relating to”
“Game of Thrones "who's next to die"”
“can't be worse than seasons 7 and 8”
“I don't like Game of Thrones, but it's well-produced.”
“So do I really want to spend hours watching something I might hate and might leave a bad taste in my mouth?”
“I maybe only saw 15 minutes of the HBO series”
“"Game of Thrones" was interesting because it did not follow any formula I could discern”
“interesting because it did not follow any formula I could discern”
“suddenly worse like Game of Thrones”
“they rushed and fumbled horribly in the show”
“They tried to tack a Disney ending onto a tragedy.”
“No main character is safe since Ned Stark was killed on TV.”
“it would have been an infinitely better ending than what they actually wrote into the show”
“They actively choose to release the product they did instead of making more episodes”
“The show worked best when it drew from the authors own material”
“It's the way stuff is done, the characters' changed behavior, incomprehensible logic, stupid explanations”
“From that point on, everyone gets 10 inch thick plot armour, and then the last two episodes skip a whole season or two of character development”
“telling us our TV settings were at fault when they decided to release an entire episode filmed in the dark”
“Could barely tell what was going on, everything was so dark, and black crush killed it completely”
“My biggest grievance on the rewatch was just how poorly it's all tied up.”
“GoT got so bad that I don't really have any desire to watch any of the seasons ever again.”
“it is no where near as bad as what happened to GoT”
“just like I did with the last 2 episodes of GoT”
“the hollywood idea of a "mature" series”
“It went off the rails with Game of Thrones.”
“some badly ended, serialized, long running shows have made consumers fairly wary”
“cut major character development to get to the pre determined ending”
“if GoT was Netflix, they'd have cancelled it on Season 6”
“Game of Thrones was good for a few seasons, but half way through the fans started dropping almost as quickly as main characters.”
“Consider the witcher vs game of thrones”
“when they changed acceptable series length to 6 episodes on GoT”
“the amazing (early on) TV series, and not the book”
“Some long-form big-budget TV series, such as "Game of Thrones", do, of course, have good sex scenes.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.