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23. HBO comedies Bill Hader in Barry. Photo: HBO Outside some quips from Bronn or Tormund, there’s nothing funny about a typical Game of Thrones episode. But thanks to the network’s schedulers, a number of the HBO’s half-hours found a much bigger audience than they otherwise might have. At a time when broadcast and cable networks have been struggling to get viewers to notice new comedies, the halo effect from airing next to one of the hottest shows in TV has been invaluable.
The career of Taylor Kitsch provides a dispiriting vision of what can happen to handsome young TV stars trying to make the leap to movie stardom, but after big-budget bombs like Pompeii, Harington doesn’t seem to be after that game anymore; he told Variety he wants the type of roles that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is currently playing. Unfortunately, his indie efforts have hardly been better received, particularly his Xavier Dolan film The Life and Death of John F.
19. The Name Arya Photo: HBO It was a rocky season for people who named their children Daenerys or Khaleesi, two names that became suddenly popular after Game of Thrones premiered. But Arya, another name that appeared abruptly on the baby-name charts, remains a pretty solid pick. The lesson here is that it’s wise to wait until a show ends before naming your child after a beloved savior figure.
15. Pedro Pascal Photo: Getty Images A one-season wonder, Pedro Pascal walked straight off the set of Game of Thrones and into a Pedro Pascal–shaped hole in the industry. After more than a decade of bit parts in TV, the role of Oberyn Martell finally gave the Chilean-born actor a solid star image: cocky, swaggering, and ready with a wink.
12. Peter Dinklage Photo: Getty Images When Game of Thrones began, American audiences were likely familiar with Dinklage from The Station Agent, Elf, and 30 Rock. But in Tyrion Lannister, he got the kind of role most actors dream of, a charismatic, morally gray quipster who underneath the drinking and whoring hid a strong moral code. Dinklage masterfully navigated Tyrion’s nuances and was rewarded with some of the show’s best dialogue.
10. Jason Momoa Photo: Getty Images Alongside Dinklage, Jason Momoa was one of only two American actors allowed in Thrones’ first season. In a cast of a thousand handsome bearded men, he stood out for being the most handsome and the most bearded. He’s since used his brief Thrones stint as a springboard to Aquaman, a role that currently looks about a billion dollars better than it did a few years ago.
After eight seasons, Clarke seems more comfortable in the limelight than her onscreen nephew/lover/killer, and more at ease playing the modern Hollywood game, which in 2019 means she’s managed to come out of the series with more Instagram followers than anyone else in the cast. The actress’s recent reveal that she’d survived multiple brain aneurysms only underlined her star image as an inspirational figure who triumphed against overwhelming odds.
6. The Fantasy Genre A direwolf and its wildling friend in Game of Thrones. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO Fantasy, once considered a less serious breed of genre fiction meant only for nerds, asocial people, and teens with acne, has spent the last decade surging into pop-culture dominance. Some of that is thanks to the Lord of the Rings movies, which primed the pump for the broad appeal of epic stories about imaginary lands, political power struggles, magic, battles, and apocalyptic survival quests.
3. HBO Richard Plepler, the HBO executive who green-lit the most expensive pilot and pilot reshoots in TV history. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images A year before Game of Thrones debuted, at least one Hollywood trade was writing about the pay-cable giant as if its future success was very much in doubt.
While the explosion of interest in A Song of Ice and Fire has made Martin very rich, not all of the attention has been positive. For the author, much of it has been of the grasping and grousing variety: Readers loved the world he’d created, and they wanted more. His “Not a Blog” dropped chapters from upcoming books as well as random musings, which only further tantalized fans, some of whom took to impertinently demanding he hurry up and finish the series before his inevitable death.
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