The final season of Game of Thrones is around the corner, so now is the time to take stock of what the series has meant to people over the course of its long life on HBO. And when trying to assess something as slippery as meaning, you can’t do better than boiling down every episode to a number corresponding to its IMDb user rating and putting them on a graph.
That is what the fine people at over at @chartrdaily have done. Below are plotted the IMDb user ratings for every episode of Game of Thrones yet aired, 67 in all. What comes out on top? What’s languishing at the bottom? Have a look:
At a glance, here are the top-rated episodes from each season:
- Season 1: “Baelor,” the one where Ned Stark dies
- Season 2: “Blackwater”
- Season 3: “The Rains of Castamere”
- Season 4: A four-way tie between “The Lion and the Rose,” “The Laws of Gods and Men,” “The Mountain and the Viper,” and “The Children”
- Season 5: “Hardhome”
- Season 6: A tie between “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Winds of Winter”
Easily the lowest-rated episode is season 5’s “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” the one where Ramsay and Sansa get married and the Sand Snakes leave no doubt as to how lame they are.
I do love a good graph. Incidentally, there used to be a website called GraphTV that did this exact thing but for any TV show you could think of. I miss it so. Come back, GraphTV!
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