--- title: Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Rips Into Later Seasons description: The third and final honest trailer for Game of Thrones is here and it's clear that the team over at Screen Junkies pulled no punches. canonical: https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-10T15:11:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:26.890Z og:title: Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Rips Into Show's Later Seasons og:description: "The show that managed to both limp and sprint to the finish line" og:url: https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee920bde4715773/69894a1b97cdff4b486b7d6c/gameofthronesseason8episode6danyiesinjonsarms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3733 og:image:height: 2100 og:image:alt: GameofThronesSeason8Episode6DanyiesinJonsArms og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Rips Into Show's Later Seasons twitter:description: "The show that managed to both limp and sprint to the finish line" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee920bde4715773/69894a1b97cdff4b486b7d6c/gameofthronesseason8episode6danyiesinjonsarms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The _Game of Thrones_ Honest Trailer Pulls No Punches With This Epic Takedown > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 10, 2019 3:11 PM UTC  Daenerys Targaryen dies in Jon Snow's arms in the Game of Thrones series finale Daenerys Targaryen dies in Jon Snow's arms in the Game of Thrones series finale Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 10, 2019 3:11 PM UTC The third [honest trailer](https://time.com/4308510/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer/) for [_Game of Thrones_](https://time.com/5517025/game-of-thrones-binge-watch-recaps/) is here and it’s clear that the team over at [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A) pulled no punches in their final takedown of the uber-popular HBO drama. Covering seasons 6-8, the third installment in the _Game of Thrones_ honest trailer series questions how the show managed to both “limp and sprint” to its finish line. “After one mixed season that still pulled off some major highs, the last two shortened ones scrambled to tie everything up real quick because the showrunners either got bored, burnt out or bitter that no one liked their slavery idea,” Epic Voice Guy said, referring to the [push to cancel](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adriennegibbs/2017/07/31/the-push-to-cancel-hbos-new-confederate-series-grows/#72c73504615c) showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ series _Confederate_. But even the honest trailer admits that there was at least one good thing that came out of the _Game of Thrones_ ending: “Be grateful for a show that’s given us the last communal experience in our divided world: cr-pping on the final seasons of _Game of Thrones_ together.” Watch the full honest trailer below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/"},"headline":"The Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Pulls No Punches With This Epic Takedown","datePublished":"2019-07-10T15:11:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:26.890Z","description":"The third and final honest trailer for Game of Thrones is here","url":"https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee920bde4715773/69894a1b97cdff4b486b7d6c/gameofthronesseason8episode6danyiesinjonsarms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee920bde4715773/69894a1b97cdff4b486b7d6c/gameofthronesseason8episode6danyiesinjonsarms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GameofThronesSeason8Episode6DanyiesinJonsArms","caption":"Daenerys Targaryen dies in Jon Snow's arms in the Game of Thrones series finale","creditText":"Helen Sloan—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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5623506/game-of-thrones-honest-trailer-3/","name":"The Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Pulls No Punches With This Epic Takedown"}}]}] ```