Game of Thrones: Are the Emmys proof that the eighth season backlash didn’t matter?

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Game of Thrones shouldn’t have won the Best Drama Series award at last night’s Emmys. I hope people who are a little too young to But the Emmys win did nod towards something unexpected: that for all the vicious internet hectoring over Game of Thrones’s final season, it was likely only a short-lived backlash and our collective memory of the show, moving forward, will be far rosier than predicted. Nobody wanted to see Dexter end its run with an unsatisfying final episode involving a lumberjack beard and Michael C Hall’s murderous anti-hero hanging out anonymously in rural Oregon, and the modern conversation surrounding the show almost entirely revolves around that fact. Outrage over its final season grew with every successive episode, internet sleuths parsing Emilia Clarke’s red carpet facial expressions for anguish over the show’s scripts, and frustrated fans manipulating Google search results until the term “bad writers” automatically linked to Weiss and David Benioff.