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The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Game Of Thrones entered its final season as the undisputed king of TV. Every Sunday, millions would take a seat in the church of HBO in hopes of witnessing another Battle of the Bastards. Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss needed to deliver a finale so grand it would make King’s Landing look like the Iron Islands. But when they were met with grueling night shoots, sloppy production mistakes, and no source material to base their ending off of, the final season basically Red Wedding-ed itself.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:18.8	Art Department, WIS, Deborah Riley, steadies herself from falling.
0:24.2	One wrong move, and she could be faced down in the horse manure and fake blood that's decorating
0:29.9	the exterior of the fake castle she's standing next to.
0:34.3	But there's no time to dwell on that possibility.
0:37.3	Right now, it's almost dusk. Final touches to the set
0:41.0	must be completed before nightfall for the pivotal grand battle in the final season of Game of Thrones.
0:52.0	Shot over 55 grueling nights, the culmination of eight incredible seasons.
0:59.3	This record-breaking feat demands nothing short of perfection.
1:04.2	All 700 cast and crew members are reliant on Deborah's meticulous eye to bring this monumental episode to life.
1:13.8	It's Deborah's job to make sure it all looks good.
1:17.3	But whose job is it to make sure everyone makes it out alive?
1:21.4	Already, an actor has fainted, and one crew member has been hospitalized with an asthma attack
1:27.1	because of all the artificial smoke.
1:31.4	Deborah snaps out of her pessimism as she's jostled aside.
1:36.0	Her team scurries around her, arranging clumps of fake corpses in battle-worn armor and knotted up wigs on the ground.
1:46.5	To her left, the smoke machine hisses to life, sending vaporized paraffin and fish oil swirling around, filling her lungs with
1:53.2	candle wax. Truly, this has been a nightmare. The weather, the logistics, the physical discomfort,
2:00.7	but it will all be worth it.
2:03.7	Once audiences see her efforts on screen, like, as long as the director lights the show properly
2:09.6	and people can literally see what she's done, she'll get that fifth Emmy. For sure.
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