If any argument is more tired than the greatest basketball player of all time, it’s the debate over which popular television series managed to stick the landing in its series finale.
The popular HBO series Game of Thrones wrapped up its eight-season run on Sunday night. Fan reaction to the exit, as well as the final season as a whole, has been mixed among the vocal fanbase. The middling reaction is not unlike the fan receipts on the polarizing ending to The Sopranos 12 years prior. Replies to both finales have at least fared better than the universally despised outings from fellow long-running series Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother and Dexter.