--- title: Game of Thrones Star on That Shocking Death: ‘I’m Not Coming Back’ description: Warning: This story contains a major spoiler about the Game of Thrones season 5 finale. Et tu, Olly? The story of Jon Snow, the bastard... canonical: https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-15T02:27:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:11:48.951Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Game of Thrones' Star on That Shocking Death: 'I'm Not Coming Back' og:description: Ugh. og:url: https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e1d9466332e6f6/6987ed15cd6848e7de09db87/game-of-thrones1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S4-E7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Game of Thrones' Star on That Shocking Death: 'I'm Not Coming Back' twitter:description: Ugh. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e1d9466332e6f6/6987ed15cd6848e7de09db87/game-of-thrones1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Star on That Shocking Death: 'I'm Not Coming Back' by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Jun 15, 2015 2:27 AM UTC  HBO by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Jun 15, 2015 2:27 AM UTC **Warning: This story contains a major spoiler about the** **_Game of Thrones_** **season 5 finale.** Et tu, Olly? The story of Jon Snow, the bastard of Winterfell, came to a heartbreaking and apparent conclusion on Sunday night’s Game of Thrones fifth season finale. From the moment of his arrival at Castle Black, Snow never quite fully bonded with the clan of criminals and outcasts sworn to defend The Wall. With each successive season, Snow’s relationship with his brothers in black has become more strained … [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/14/game-thrones-jon-dies-interview) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Star on That Shocking Death: 'I'm Not Coming Back'","datePublished":"2015-06-15T02:27:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:11:48.951Z","description":"Warning: This story contains a major spoiler about the Game of Thrones season 5 finale. Et tu, Olly? The story of Jon Snow, the bastard...","url":"https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e1d9466332e6f6/6987ed15cd6848e7de09db87/game-of-thrones1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e1d9466332e6f6/6987ed15cd6848e7de09db87/game-of-thrones1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game-of-Thrones-S4-E7","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3920730/game-of-thrones-finale-recap-death-stark-lannister-targaryen/","name":"Game of Thrones Star on That Shocking Death: 'I'm Not Coming Back'"}}]}] ```