There are also generous helpings of the sex and violence that drew so many eyes to Game of Thrones, although it’s often a bit more cartoony.
Geralt spends at least as much time getting roped into the games of high lords and ladies as he does fighting Leshy and the like, and it’s a tossup which is more dangerous. The Witcher follows the adventures of a professional monster hunter named Geralt of Rivia, but we soon see that the human beings who populate the Continent can be just as vexing as the bloodthirsty beasts. The first season of The Witcherdebuted the same year that Game of Thrones ended, and there’s some shared ground. And while the battle continues, enough contenders have come and gone at this point that it’s worth taking time to look at these hopefuls for the throne, and to gauge how successful they’ve been at taking it. From Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos outright proclaiming he wanted Amazon Studios to “find the next Game of Thrones” to the myriad fantasy shows created by Netflix and others, the Streaming Wars have raged across the realm. When the series ended in 2019, it left a power vacuum that many streaming services and networks have sought to fill. HBO took a huge chance on a show about dragons and warring noble houses and monsters lurking in the frozen north beyond an eight-hundred-foot tall ice wall, and it paid off for all of us.Īs with any success, Game of Thrones has bred no shortage of imitators. It’s easy to forget nowadays, when there’s a new big budget science fiction and fantasy show every couple of weeks, but when Game of Thrones first began airing in 2011 it was revolutionary. Whether you still love Game of Thronesyears after the finale or you’ve burned that bridge following the controversial season 8, the show was a television phenomenon like nothing that had come before.
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