“Every episode has as much in it as any one feature film, but we have to do it quicker and for less money,” producer Christopher Newman says early in the doc. That work is notable because, stray 21st-century coffee cup aside, that spectacle was present and extraordinary throughout the uneven final hours. The documentary centers those fine musicians’ stories and work. “I’m a conductor of fine musicians who basically just waves his arms around,” says David Nutter, who directed episodes 1, 2, and 4 this season.

Instead, the documentary is a love letter to the Thrones folks whose names don’t appear in the opening credits: the production organizers, the cast extras, and the various crews-costume, makeup, set construction and design, and so on-who helped create the spectacle of the final season. Weiss don’t give interviews, while the prominent actors and actresses speak just a few times. But Last Watch mostly steers away from these points, and from Thrones’ known faces showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Much of the unsettled discourse around Season 8 focused on the observable story of the show: the writing, the pace, the plot. Even Amid Plot Stumbles, the Crew Deserves Tremendous Credit Here are seven nuggets about the end of production of “the biggest and most popular TV show ever,” as the documentary’s opening credits bragged (though M*A*S*H might have reason to quibble with that particular assessment). Last Watch didn’t contain any grand revelations about some of the final season’s lingering questions-sadly, Bran remains an inexplicable king, and Drogon is still missing-but it offered new perspective for Thrones viewers who are perhaps still frustrated about the show’s end. On Sunday night, HBO debuted Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, a two-hour feature documenting the making of Season 8, from first table read through final shot. The Ringer’s Definitive 'Game of Thrones’ Episode Rankings The Long Spite: Was the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale the Most Hated Ever? Ask the Maester: Wait a Second … Who Just Made Bran King? The Seven Iconic ‘Game of Thrones’ Scenes That Season 8 Makes Better

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