Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones
Genre	Fantasy[1] Serial drama[2] Tragedy[3][4]
Created by	David Benioff D. B. Weiss
Based on	A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Starring	Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Lena Headey Emilia Clarke Iain Glen Kit Harington Sophie Turner Maisie Williams Alfie Allen Peter Dinklage John Bradley Jerome Flynn Conleth Hill (See full cast list)
Theme music composer	Ramin Djawadi
Opening theme	"Main Title"
Composer	Ramin Djawadi
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	73 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	David Benioff D. B. Weiss Carolyn Strauss Frank Doelger Bernadette Caulfield Bryan Cogman Miguel Sapochnik David Nutter
Producers	Mark Huffam Joanna Burn Frank Doelger Chris Newman Greg Spence Lisa McAtackney Bryan Cogman Duncan Muggoch
Production locations	United Kingdom Croatia Iceland Spain Malta Morocco Canada
Running time	50–82 minutes
Production companies	HBO Entertainment Television 360 Grok! Television Generator Entertainment Startling Television Bighead Littlehead
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	April 17, 2011 (2011-04-17) – May 19, 2019 (2019-05-19)
Related
Thronecast After the Thrones House of the Dragon
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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series, based on George R. R. Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire. The first episode was shown on April 17, 2011 on Home Box Office. There are eight seasons in total as of 2019. The first season was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and won two of them. The series focuses on various kings and queens in two continents called Westeros and Essos. Many of the successors to the throne fight for power. The series is praised for human sexuality and story line.^[5]

1. ↑ Noah Harari, Yuval (May 24, 2019). "Game of Thrones: A Battle of Reality Versus Fantasy". Wired. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
2. ↑ Alsop, Elizabeth (July 8, 2015). "The Unbearable Darkness of Prestige Television". The Atlantic. Emerson Collective. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2020. From the bro-style bloviating (or, broviating) of True Detective's first season, to the ominous proclaiming that punctuates the general whoring and slaying of Game of Thrones, to the unceasing climatological and psychological punishments meted out to the cast of The Killing, it seems as though some of the most celebrated recent examples of serial drama have elected self-seriousness as their default tone.
3. ↑ Arp, Robert (2017). J. Silverman, Eric (ed.). The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy. Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN 9780812699555. Like Game of Thrones, the action in those ancient tragedies centered on the stories of four ruling dynasties: House Atreus of Mycenae, House Cadmus in Thebes, House Erichthonius in Athens, and House Minos in Crete.
4. ↑ Marcotte, Amanda (June 9, 2015). "Don't Be So Shocked by the Deaths on Game of Thrones: The Show Is a Classical Tragedy". Slate. The Slate Group. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2020. But while Game of Thrones is in part a rebuttal to traditional fantasy fiction, I'd argue that it's become clear—after five books in A Song of Ice and Fire and five seasons of the TV series—that Martin and showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff are actually playing with a format that isn't so revolutionary at all: They're reviving and updating the classical tragedy as a narrative form.
5. ↑ Ferreday, Debra. "Game of Thrones, rape culture and feminist fandom." Australian Feminist Studies 30.83 (2015): 21-36.