Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch Review - 8 Ups & 3 Downs

1. It's A Little Heavy-Handed On The Adversity (And One Musical Choice Is WEIRD)

It's sort of fitting that Game Of Thrones took a lot to make and that it was an arduous journey, but there's a limit to how much hand-wringing an audience will tolerate when it comes to making a great show. It's always going to be difficult to see it as "real work" for people who hate their jobs and maybe that's a little unfair, but it's because the documentary really does try to hammer home how difficult this whole process was and the cost to people's lives. It just goes a little bit far.

You have to particularly think about how that's going to go down with anyone who had issues with this final season. It's interesting to know that the crew felt like zombies, that the endless night shooting was really hard and that people wanted to go home, but to hear some of them complain about having to have their lives on pause and just wanting some normalcy will be a bit much.

Like Weiss and Benioff not being involved really, it will also probably serve to furnish some complaints about the show. For instance, imagine how easy it will be for cynics to look at this as a culture of complaining and to reflect on how much that would inevitably reflect on a supposedly inferior product. It's inevitable.

And as for that musical moment. We get to see David Nutter's experience of shooting the funeral scene in the wake of the Battle Of Winterfell and as Jeanie Finlay talks to him, he reveals that he had aspirations to be "the next Barry Manilow," which she seems to have taken as the opportunity to play some Manilow. It's fine, he's great, but it means we hear "Could It Be Magic" over sorrowful shots of dead bodies on pyres outside WInterfell and it is remarkably odd.

And now to the positives...