The HBO drama tied its own record for most Emmy wins for a season of television, taking home 12 trophies after receiving a record 32 nominations. Game of Thrones, says Kate Aurthur, deserves its fourth drama series Emmy because it showed what event television could be, especially with its final season. "More than anything quantifiable, every season of Game of Throne proved to be a massive communal event during which audiences came together to discuss fan theories, mourn characters who died and argue about the show’s depiction of race and rape and Ed Sheeran," says Aurthur. "The show’s final season, with its wild and incoherent narrative swings, provided perhaps the most interesting conversations of all — not since college have I found myself talking so much about fictional characters’ psychologies and motivations. Congratulations to us, we all survived the Dany wars! And, yes, the final season of Game of Thrones barely resolved any of the mythological puzzles it had set up and betrayed a good number of its characters (not only Dany, but Cersei, Jaime, Brienne, Tyrion, Varys — whew, everyone, maybe!). It was as if the show just stopped caring, to be honest. But millions and millions of us got together and talked about it like we were watching ER in 1994 or something and there were only four TV networks. No, it was not the best, but it was indeed outstanding. I miss Game of Thrones already."
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