Friends, Andals, First Men: it’s almost time.
The pop-culture juggernaut “Game of Thrones” returns to HBO Sunday (9 EDT/PDT) for its eighth and final season. The fantasy series concludes its run as the biggest hit in the premium cable network’s history. But no one aside from the cast and crew really knows what’s going to happen when the familiar theme music begins Sunday night. Read on for everything we know about “Game of Thrones” Season 8.
Where did we leave off?
It’s been 20 months since we saw a new episode of “Game of Thrones,” so a refresher on the relevant plot details might be helpful. At the end of Season 7, Jon and Dany have sex; Bran and Sam realize Jon is Aegon Targaryen; Arya and Sansa execute Littlefinger; Cersei lies about helping fight the White Walkers; Jaime abandons Cersei; and the Night King breaks through the Wall. Want something more detailed? We recapped every important event from all seven seasons here. Some of those Season 1 details might just pop up again in Season 8.
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Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke in the Season 7 finale of "Game of Thrones." (Photo: Macall B. Polay/HBO)
Who’s still alive?
For a show with a death count as high as Thrones’, quite a few characters (and dragons and wights and White Walkers) are left standing. Scroll through some of the biggest characters still on the show in the gallery below, featuring all of them taking a turn sitting on the famed Iron Throne.
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