Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones was the biggest television event of the 21st century. At its peak — seasons one through six — it was the most thrilling, unpredictable, and visually spectacular show ever made. The Red Wedding, the Battle of the Bastards, and Cersei's destruction of the Sept of Baelor are among the greatest sequences in television history. It proved that fantasy could command a global audience of hundreds of millions. The final two seasons diminished the legacy, but nothing can erase the cultural earthquake this show created. For a decade, the entire world organized its week around a single hour of television.