Pulse Movie Review: After Two Years of Waiting, Winter is Finally Here; GoT Returns


Latest News | 2019-04-15

From the very first season of Game of Thrones, majority viewers’ favorite family the Starks of Winter fell always had a common slogan “Winter is Coming” and like we have evolved to understand, it means no ordinary winter season.
After the close of Season 7 however, we fully understood what the phrase meant all along. The White Walkers have broken through The Wall at Castle Black and possess a dragon under their command.

As we are all aware, Game of Thrones, now popularly referred to as GoT was premiered last night in the US with their final Season 8 after two years of waiting since the last season was premiered.

The network responsible for this master piece, Home Box Office (HBO) has over the past weeks released a couple of teaser trailers that have had viewers guessing how it will end out.

Once again, they limited this season’s length to only 6 episodes.
However the six episodes shall have the longest run time ever in the show’s history. Episode one will run for 54 mins, Episode two 58 mins, Episode three for an amazing 1 hour and 22 mins, Episode four 1 hour and 18 mins, Episode five 1 hour and 20 mins and Episode six will cap it all with 1 hour and 20 mins of showtime.

With a rumoured $15M cost of production per episode, reports have since revealed that Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Kit Harrington (Jon Snow) and Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) all bagged $500,000 per episode.

According to HBO, GoT final season Episode one aired at 9PM EST on Sunday April 14th and the show can be streamed live on HBO NOW, HBO GO, Showmax, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Direct TV Now, Sky Atlantic, Sky Go, and M-Net among other sites.


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