Game of Thrones creators compare the ending to The Sopranos

Before the eighth series of Game of Thrones has even premiered, everyone’s already wondering about the finale.

This season’s final episode will be the last ever installment of the popular fantasy drama, and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are under a lot of pressure to wrap things up in a way that does the show justice.

Both have opened up about the high stakes. “From the beginning, we’ve talked about how the show would end,” Benioff told Entertainment Weekly.

“A good story isn’t a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course we worry. It’s also part of the fun of any show that people love arguing about it.”

Benioff went on to discuss the conclusion of The Sopranos in 2007, when the screen surprisingly cut to black. “I think that was the best of all possible endings for that show,” he argued, “but a lot of people hated it. I’ve gotten into a lot of arguments with people about why that was a great ending, but people felt legitimately cheated and that’s their right to feel that way, just as it’s my right to feel like they’re idiots.”

His comments suggest that Game of Thrones may plump for a similarly divisive finale. Weiss also wants the show’s conclusion to be a climactic talking point, although he’s keen that it shouldn’t be a question of whether the finale is good or bad. He explained: “I’m hoping we get the Breaking Bad [finale] argument where it’s like, ‘Is that an A or an A+?’ I want that to be the argument.”

Asked where he'll be when the final episode airs, Benioff said he plans to be "very drunk and very far from the internet".