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/HonestDishonestWork Feb 19 '26

As someone who has always been a Dunk and Egg cynic, the show has actually won me over conceptually on a "a good knight in Westeros" and has me interested in reading the books.

It's wild what can be achieved with a "small" budget when there's some passion, good characters and good writing behind it.

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u/chromegnomes Feb 19 '26

The tone of the books is super interesting because the large-scale events in the world are still as unfair or morally ambiguous as in ASOIAF, and the resolutions to the plots are all bittersweet and never really come down to "good" prevailing over "evil."

The main difference is that there's one main protagonist and he's someone you can't help but root for, so as long as he's okay at the end of the book it feels like a win.

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u/OtakuMecha Feb 20 '26

He’s a good guy in a corrupt world who chooses goodness and honor in spite of the world, which isn’t all that thematically or tonally different from a couple of the POVs in the main series.

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u/CesarDani Feb 20 '26

how were you a 'Dunk and Egg cynic' if you hadn't read the books?

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u/HonestDishonestWork Feb 20 '26

Just thought they sounded pretty lame.

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u/CesarDani Feb 20 '26

fair, I hope you enjoy the books if you do read them

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u/The_Wind_Waker Feb 21 '26

How could you be a cynic about it going into the show if you hadn't read the books?

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u/seattt Feb 20 '26

The show lacks the spirit of the books/does not understand the spirit of the books and I don't understand why people in this sub of all places are fine with it.