In a new New York Times profile, actor Kit Harington has revealed how he felt about the negative critical reaction to the HBO drama’s final season: Mad. “That genuinely angered me,” the Game of Thrones alum told writer Miles Ellingham. “Sorry, that’s just how I feel.”
Season 8 of Game of Thrones, presided over by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, received no shortage of flak for how it wrapped up the series’ major storylines. This included an awkward rush to transform key character Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) into a despot who ended up getting killed by Harington’s Jon Snow. The final six episodes of the series had fans calling for a complete redo of the final season — something Harington described as “a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media.”
Previously, Harington had revealed that when the final season of Game of Thrones was airing, he was receiving treatment in rehab. The series finale of the fantasy series does rank among television’s worst, though HBO head Casey Bloys rejected the notion of remaking the final season, saying in 2019 that “The petition shows a lot of enthusiasm and passion for the show, but it wasn’t something we seriously considered. I can’t imagine another network would.”
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Harington is now starring in the HBO drama Industry, which returned for its fourth season on Sunday, January 11th (streaming now on HBO Max). For more, here’s why the proposed Jon Snow spinoff was shelved in 2024.
