Game Of Thrones Season 8: 9 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Long Night'

5. The Insane Spectacle

Game of Thrones Brienne Jaime
HBO

We knew this was going to be epic. We'd heard all about it. They shot for 55 consecutive nights in the cold of Northern Ireland. Shooting continued for several weeks in the studio afterwards. It was bigger than Helm's Deep. It was the longest battle they'd ever done. So on and so forth the hype machine went.

Somehow, someway, they pulled it off.

In terms of spectacle, this lives up to the promise. From the dragon-on-dragon action to the sea of wights, the blazing fires to a crowd of heroes battling for survival as Winterfell crumbles around them, and just the sheer scale of it all, it's unthinkably big and impressive. When it comes to the scale of these battles, Game of Thrones has made a habit of setting a new bar and then clearing it, and they've managed to do that one last time.

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