Henry Faherty
Some of even the best television shows eventually begin to dwindle after a while, often starting around the fifth season. But according to the creators of HBO’s “Game of Thrones“, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, there’s no reason for fans to worry about the quality of the upcoming Season 6, set to air in late April.
While many showrunners state similar things about every new season of their prized series, for a show like “Game of Thrones” that still has so much source material left to cover, it seems like it may in fact be the truth. Earlier seasons encapsulated an entire book of the bestselling series by George R. R. Martin, but as time went on the two showrunners were able to stretch a book’s plot over more than just one. And with a recent multiple-season renewal by HBO, the series could possibly go on for quite sometime.
Speaking to EW, Benioff and Weiss believe Season 6 will get even better than what fans have seen so far:
“The whole season. Dan and I talk about this a lot. This is not us trying to hype it. Usually there’s an episode or two we’re kind of nervous about, that didn’t turn out as well as we hoped. This season there is not a weak episode. We had great directors who knew what they were doing, paired with excellent [directors of photography]. We thought at the script stage it might be our strongest season. Then the episodes came in better than we hoped. We’re always reluctant to say it’s ‘the best season yet’ because so much of that is in the eyes of the beholder. And Dan and I are so close to it that it’s impossible to be unbiased. But that’s my sense – watching them all together now, this is the best one we’ve done. It’s also the one I’m proudest of, because it was the hardest.”
It’s reassuring to see showrunners so confident about their work, which should please both fans and average viewers alike. The previous season ended with some massive cliffhangers, although that’s not a very shocking thing to anyone familiar with the series. But the most bewildering was the fate of Jon Snow (Kit Harrington). He has officially shot scenes for the new season but that doesn’t mean he’s actually still alive; the character was such a big part of the show that he could just simply be shooting scenes to show his actual death or body, but there’s nothing else confirmed yet.
Season 6 of “Game of Thrones” premieres on HBO on April 24th.
