Game of Thrones: The Last Watch highlights what it takes to make one of the greatest TV shows of all time
FirstpostIn Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, a documentary on the making of the HBO fantasy epic’s eighth and final season, filmmaker Jeanie Finlay follows Vladimir Furdik — the stuntman-turned-Night King actor — around set. Setting down his sword and taking off his armour after having been part of Jon Snow’s “honour guard” — among the few Stark soldiers who nearly get into a skirmish with the Unsullied, as Jon protests Grey Worm’s execution of Lannister prisoners — McClay quips, “Just back to normal life now.” Fans of Game of Thrones — with an average of 43 million tuning in for each episode of this eighth season — have probably been feeling the same way for just about a week now. While we get some of the big stars — Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, director David Nutter, executive producer Bernadette Caulfield — for the most part, it is the-near invisible cogs in the wheel that The Last Watch focuses on. It doesn’t always feel like the most well-defined or tightly narrated viewing experience, but The Last Watch certainly humanises the Game of Thrones experience.