Interest in HBO’sGame of Thrones is peaking as the series gets set to end for good Sunday night. The political/fantasy/zombie epic with several…
Interest in HBO’sGame of Thrones is peaking as the series gets set to end for good Sunday night.
The political/fantasy/zombie epic with several buddy and road movies embedded has reached that rare level of pop culture relevance where people who don’t even watch the show are now talking about it. What’s more, people are now regularly talking about how much people are talking about the show.
“It’s been a wild ride and is clearly one of the most important of the cable appointment-viewing programs of its era,” said Rick Stevens, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Appointment viewing is the rapidly disappearing concept of planning your schedule around when a particular show or event is available to watch. Before the advent of streaming, on-demand TV services and YouTube, almost all viewing was appointment viewing, but today it’s a designation primarily enjoyed by live sports and one-off events like the Academy Awards.
Thrones has managed to buck the trend and maintain its status as one of the last dramatic series to command an appointment-viewing audience.
