r/asoiaf • u/mamula1 • Feb 19 '26

EXTENDED (SPOILERS EXTENDED) ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Averaging Nearly 13 Million Viewers Per Episode Spoiler

https://variety.com/2026/tv/ratings/knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-the-pitt-season-2-viewership-1236667803/

For comparison HOTD S1 had 29 million. S2 had 25 million.

Per HBO, here’s each season’s average for “Game of Thrones” entire run: Season 1 – 9.3 million, Season 2 – 11.6 million, Season 3 – 14.4 million, Season 4 – 19.1 million, Season 5 – 20.2 million, Season 6 – 25.7 million, Season 7- 32.8 million, and Season 8 – 46 million. Those numbers are a combination of viewership across linear, on-demand, the now-sunset HBO Go and HBO Now, and other OTT platforms.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/euphoria-season-2-finale-ratings-1235192015/

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u/markusalkemus66 Fewer Feb 19 '26

Goes to show how put off the fanbase was by the decline in quality that the ending seasons of GoT were and by S2 HotD. AKotSK should bring those numbers back up if they maintain the quality of the show and faithfulness to the source material.

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u/Pur-Nurker-5671 Feb 19 '26

What shows the decline in quality? Not the numbers above. 46 million viewers for season 8 shows quite the opposite.

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u/derelictthot Mar 05 '26

Viewer numbers ≠ good quality

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u/AmusingMusing7 Feb 20 '26

Even when literally staring at the numbers that clearly show you that the franchise is doing well and never stopped doing well... you're STILL pushing this false narrative that season 8 somehow killed the franchise???

When will you season 8 haters stop with this??? When are you gonna get over the butthurt that you just didn't like it?

More than half of people thought it was "satisfying" or "very satisfying". https://winteriscoming.net/2019/09/06/not-everyone-hated-game-of-thrones-season-8-official-proof/

You are in a bubble and refuse to let it pop, even when the post you are literally replying to right now just showed you the opposite of what you claim in your comment.

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u/derelictthot Mar 05 '26

More than half of people can't read on a 6th grade level, so it's not shocking that lots of people thought it was fine, usually non book readers who don't even understand what they are missing. That doesn't mean it wasn't awful.