We won't be spoiling anything from any production leaks that may or may not have found their way onto the internet. There won't be any finale spoilers in this story though.
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This story is dark and full of spoilers, so only continue reading if you've caught up on the latest episode of the show. Here's how they, and your Westerosi correspondents, are feeling: Episode 2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdomsīefore it all ends, we asked our readers on Facebook Messenger to share their memories of the show, as well as their emotions, ahead of the final episode.
Over the course of eight years and 72 episodes, the show has become an unprecedented phenomenon and its iconic moments have changed the television landscape. But it’s not going to affect the whole country at the same time in the way something like M*A*S*H did.The series' final episode is being broadcast around the world. “The finale of Game of Thrones, if it gets 20% of that, it will be very happy. It will never be beaten,” says Bianculli. (Today, Bianculli says, spoilers play a little bit of the same role, giving people a reason to watch as soon as they can.) In addition, in the era of DVR and streaming, people don’t have to watch the Game of Thrones finale in real time, whereas if you didn’t tune in to the finale of M*A*S*H, you’d miss it. Games of Thrones is unlikely to beat that record, no matter how popular it is, because there is so much more to watch these days - not only on the small screen but also via streaming sites. The men and women of 4077 MASH could be seen as us at our worst hour, finding the best part of ourselves. Here were gruff pragmatism, technical ingenuity, grace under pressure, the saving perspective of wit.
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As the Viet Nam War staggered to a close and M*A*S*H generated the momentum any TV series needs to sustain its quality after the first few seasons, the show revealed itself as a gritty romance about the finest American instincts. For half an hour each week, hawk and dove could sit together in front of the TV set and agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been unfairly assigned now they were doing their best to do good and get out. Like the surgeons whose no-sweat heroism it celebrated, the series began by operating on the wounded American body politic with skill and daring good humor. M*A*S*H, a Vietnam parable that hit the airwaves three months before the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, surely did so. No work of popular art can tap the money machine so deftly without touching a national pulse or nerve. Viewers’ emotional investment in the M*A*S*H finale came at a time when the show’s message was particularly resonant, TIME’s Richard Corliss explained: Even if the show wasn’t consistently the number-one-rated show, people realized that the finale would make history, and they were curious to see how it all shakes out.Īnd the longer the show had been on air, the more time viewers had to bond with the characters - who were part of sophisticated, intricate plot lines that required a solid final episode that ties them together. For years, it had been one of the top 20 shows on television, in terms of ratings.
The show had come a long way from ranking in 46th place in the ratings in its first season (1972-1973). “In the same time, the show increased the going rate for a 30-second commercial from $30,000 to about $200,000 for a regular episode and, for the feature-length finale, $450,000, topping the rate of last month’s Super Bowl by $50,000, to become the most expensive half-minute in TV history.” The show had been a success with critics, audiences and advertisers alike, and by the time it ended, it had won 14 Emmys (and earned about 100 nominations). “In real time, the Korean conflict was over in three years in CBS’s prime time, it lasted eleven increasingly popular years in syndicated reruns, it has proved so successful that it could outlast the Hundred Years’ War,” TIME reported around the time the episode aired.
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