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How I’m Slowly Learning to Love Game of Thrones’ Abysmal Ending

It took six years, but I’m finally able to see the light beyond Game of Thrones’ broken conclusion

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Ben Ulansey
May 31, 2025
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If there’s one indisputable certainty in the universe, it’s that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss dropped the ball with Game of Thrones. The epic TV fantasy show’s conclusion will forever go down in the annals of history for its unforgivable repugnance.

So how could I betray the ten articles I’ve written lambasting the ending and suddenly say I’ve grown t…

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