From its premiere on HBO close to
a decade ago, in 2011, “Game of Thrones” has been primed and promoted to be a
strong contender for television programming accolades. And the medieval fantasy
series, created by D.B Weiss and Dave Benioff based on the books of George R.
R. Martin, did not disappoint its mother network. It went to double-digit
nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards from its first season, and scored some
impressive multiple wins over the years. This Sunday, the 71st
Primetime Emmys would finally give its last awards to the show that concluded
in May this year; while fewer in number now, they remain very notable
achievements.
CNN reports that on this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, which was
held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles just this September 22, the
eight-season awarding campaign of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” came to an end, not
with a bang, but a breeze. For while the show ended up with its most epic
number of nominations yet – 32 which breaks the 1994 season of “NYPD Blue” that
got 26 that year – it only ended up with two Emmys. At least one of them was its
seventh and last Outstanding Drama Series, so that is that.
The sheer amount of nominations
that “Thrones” got for its swan song seems to belie the fact that for many
devoted followers of the conflict in Westeros, the eighth and final season was
generally considered the weakest among them all. With only six episodes filled
with a breakneck pace of storytelling and anticlimactic comeuppances of many
antagonistic personages in the narrative, audiences were of the opinion that
the Benioff-Weiss show-runner tandem were just looking to finish the show
quickly.
At least the Emmys ceremony
understood the meaningfulness of the series’ TV farewell, thus they gathered
representatives of the cast onstage flanking Tyrion Lannister actor Peter Dinklage,
who won the only other 2019 Primetime Emmy for “Game of Thrones” as Outstanding
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. On their acceptance speech, Dave Benioff
remarked that their success with the show was thanks to the original story
woven from “the demented mind of George R. R. Martin;” he actually has yet to
finish the last two books of the original novels that the series was based on.
When it comes to the most winning
show however, Amazon Prime Video netted 4 Emmys for British comedy-drama “Fleabag,”
followed by three awards from miniseries “Chernobyl,” also from HBO. Said
network retains Primetime Emmy supremacy with nine awards from its various nominated
shows, followed by 7 from Amazon Prime Video, 4 from Netflix, and two each from
NBC and FX.
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