![]() ![]() Endings to popular series are notoriously hard to pull off, and ever since Happy Days inspired the term "jump the shark," stellar TV shows from The Simpsons to Seinfeld to The Sopranos have perfected the art of taking something audiences love and leaving them with as much disappointment as Jorah Mormont on Daenerys’s wedding day. ![]() Weiss had to wrap up the plot of the final few seasons without source material to base it on-with, shall we say, mixed results. The main difference between Game of Thrones on the screen and on the page is that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. While fans have been in an agonizing kind of purgatory waiting for the sixth novel, Winds of Winter (it’s been 11 years since the last one released!), all eight seasons of the show have come and faded away like the last vestiges of summer. Martin that spawned the massive hit TV series. Winter is coming in August this year with the release of Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon (premiering August 21 on HBO), which means it’s a superb time to look back at the beloved fantasy books by George R.R. ![]()
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