I got into GOT in November, 2025 when I got an OTT subscription and saw GOT consistently trending. Knew about GOT long time before I even started watching. Wanted to watch some show. Picked up GOT since I was familiar with it and was trending.
What about y'all?
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In the late 90's. Bought the first two books.
Wow. You're an OG.
Bough the third book when it came out, read through the Red Wedding, threw my book at the wall and vowed to stop reading.
Read on, got to the Purple Wedding, all was forgiven.
Understandable😂
Same here!
Season 5 and because my friends told me how good it was. I didn't have HBO so my friend let me use their password.
April 2012. Second episode of S2 had just come out and a friend of mine insisted that we watch it. I hadn't seen any episodes beforehand, so we binged it the day before. I am a little embarrassed to admit that we skipped an entire day of lectures in order to watch it, but we figured it was loosely relevant to our degrees (Medieval History).
Last year. We were talking about canceling HBO, so I wanted to try some shows I had never watched before prior to canceling.
I started binge watching and was hooked-we ended up not canceling 😅
It premiered here in the UK on April 18, 2011 on Sky Atlantic, that is when I started to watch it. It was also a sad moment for me because I knew my mum would have loved this show, however, sadly she had passed on August 4, 2010, therefore, it was a kind of bittersweet moment for me.
My last re-watch was October 2025.......
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S1 episode 1.
My friend loves searching for and finding new shows, happened to be at his so we watched it.
So 2011.
Premiere day. My brother and our friends in college were hearing the hype and decided to watch it. For three years until we graduated we practically watched it every Sunday night together. I still remember watching the Oberyn scene together. All of us cheering and then just yelling at Oberyn to finish him off lol
The red wedding left us stunned too.
Great memories
Around 2010. It was a random book my husband picked up at the airport before a 24hr flight.
We both became totally addicted to the book series and were so hyped when it was adapted for TV.
I had always heard about it and had people recommend it, so in 2021, I bought the entire DVD set and watched it in a month. i've seen it, 19? times since then. i'm double rewatching right now so my counting is off lol (by double i mean: watching with a friend for the first time cause I talk about it a lot and she's never seen and also watching on my own)
3 years ago, I watched for the first time the whole show + HOTD season 1 in the span of 4 weeks
2012
Was the week between the 9th and 10th episodes of the second season airing.
Read the books that summer.
Many rewatches (partial and, once the show finished airing, full) later and here I am.
Watched it from the beginning. It had a ton of hype before it released and was the most expensive tv show at the time.
Yeah I think I remember seeing previews for months.
2003 when someone recommended the books online. I went to the book store the next day after hearing fans gush about it.
For some of the characters in the books, there's been almost no progress since that year.
In 2012 when I stumbled upon and eventually bought A Game of Thrones because it was everywhere. I had no clue what the book was or that it was also getting adapted.
My college roommate saw the book in my hand and said oh cool so it’s also a book. I was like yeah, what else. He was like no, no I just binged season 1 and it’s like awesome. Totally different than what I have seen before.
Intrigued me, so I read a few chapters and watched the show. And gasped quite audibly at the end of the pilot. Dropped the book, binged the whole thing. And rest it history.
P.S: Never got around to finishing any books tho
I tried to get into the show around 2014/2015. Watched all of S1 and most of S2, but lost interest and didn’t continue. I recently decided to give it another go in October last year and binged it all within about 2 months. Currently making my way through the books!
Late 2019/early 2020. I heard everyone talk about it and figured I would give it a shot.
I binged it during the pandemic, absolutely worth it
Late 1999. The seven-book series I was absorbed in (McCullough's, Masters of Rome) was long stalled after book 5! So damned frustrating!! Then I read a great review of A Clash of KIngs, the second book in a planned trilogy, ASOIAF. I figured that with only one book to go, this series would be a safe, non-frustrating alternative . I loved those first two books. And...
...we've been waiting on book six for over a decade!!!!!!! Dammit! As it turned out, McCullough soon brought out her books 6 and 7 within a few years. Sigh. I had bet on the wrong horse.
I started it in 2026, and finished it last night. Main reason to start the show was people comparing ending of stranger things to GOT ending. I wanted to see was it really that bad.
Damn bro. It's only been 10 days since the start of 2026. You finished the whole thing in 10 days? So, what did you think of ending?
Rushed, inconsistencies and really suffers from short season. The story and arcs are honestly understandable, but really suffers from having lacking episodes, both season 7 and 8
Each season only has 7-10 episodes max. I can easily binge the entire series in a week if I’m dedicated lol.
Dude 2025? Are you posting from the future lmao
But for real I started watching around 2013 when my roommate wouldn't shut up about the Red Wedding episode. Binged the first 3 seasons in like a week and immediately understood the hype
I finished the whole 8 seasons in like 25 days (during college days) lol. That's how hooked I was. Your roommate forced you to watch it but in my case it's reverse😂.
I started in late 2014. By then, the 4th season had already come out.
Season 4.
I caught up on the first season and was ready for season 2.
I got into it in 2014. I had just moved to a new city and a family member heavily recommended it. So I put it on and the rest was history. GOT quickly became an all time favorite show.
My brother gave me a copy of it for Christmas in ‘97 after it won some awards.
Watched season 1 having never heard of it, before season 2 came out bought and read all the books.
2013, through recommendation of a lifelong school friend. Ordered the books not long after.
I binged s1 after it aired, but before s2 and then binged all the books in a week. Dropped the show because of the changes in s2 (Asha rename and the Robb LI change). To me it looked as if the directors didn't respect the audience. I was ultimately proven right.
Binged s2-s6 prior to s7 and watched the train wreck live.
maybe 2012? my roommate was watching it and i happened to just look towards the TV and loved what i saw. i was binging skyrim at the time and it reminded me of it so i was just immediately hooked
I have the same situation as you, when I thought about watching it my parents watched an episode (I think it was the one where Cersei destroyed the sept) and I just really wanted to watch it all
June 6th 2011
August 2022
2016, was season 4 or 5
My uncle, a trucker who would go on to personify all of the stereotypes that give MAGA a bad name, got me into the series. He bought the books on tape in like 99 or 2000 or something. Thought I'd like it so he bought me a copy of the first book for Christmas in maybe 2001.
I didn't think I'd like anything he was into, so I put off cracking it open for about 3 years. Then I was hooked.
November 2025 here too 🛡️⚔️
Just got into it at the end of November 2025. My husband had surgery & we were looking for something to binge.
I heard about the show towards the latter half of S2 being aired and I went back to S1 and eventually also got the books.
April 17, 2011.
My roommate at the time came home from work and said. Finish up that game (this was Call of Duty era) and watch this show with me. I had no idea what this show was at all.
He had read the books previously and was looking forward to it. I'm glad he didn't just watch it on his own.
Didn't know it existed until my mum started watching the first season. Wasn't particularly interested until I happened to catch her watching the last episode and saw Dragons.
I soon caught up in time for season 2 😂
After season 3. Someone at work mentioned to me. Binged the first 3 seasons. Went and bought all the books while waiting for season 4 and read them.
2010, just before the show came out. A coworker was super-hyped about the show coming soon, so I gave the first book a shot.
Reading AGOT without watching the show was amazing. I read the book without knowing that dragons were a part of the story. The ending of AGOT is insane for a first time reader. You know that the dragon eggs have hatched in the second or third last line of the book. And the book ends with the line "... and for the first time in four hundred years, the night came alive with the cries of dragons".
I did not care much for the show till the massive online crashout after the red wedding episode. Thats when I started watching the show.
just started it yesterday! as a high-fantasy enjoyer, I'm loving the vibes but I have no idea what to expect as I've genuinely heard very little about it
I read the books around 10 years ago. I am debating a reread but not sure if im ready to get hurt again. 1. We dont know if theyll ever be finished. 2. The show ended up being a disappointment in the end. Is it worth going through it again?
I don’t remember the exact year but it was a year or so before the show came out. I was going camping and was looking for a new book to read and downloaded it to my kindle before the trip. I will never forget getting up in the morning and it was drizzling and foggy and I sat in my chair by campfire with a blanket wrapped around me and had a cup of coffee and started reading the first book and it was kinda a magical moment sitting in the woods by a fire with the fog and drizzle and all.
2011 when it premiered on HBO. Just got done watching The Sopranos and simply didn’t change the channel. Then I was hooked. It’s too bad it got me into a book series that will never be finished.
2009-2010. Kept hearing more and more buzz about this fantasy book series and read them in time to be ready for midnight release of A Dance With Dragons in 2011.
I got into it in 2023 sometime. I had just finished college and was trying to catch up on notable media. Just before I got into GOT I watch breaking bad for the first time.
The pilot episode on premier day, I've been watching since. HBO hyped it heavily so I'd been waiting for weeks for it.
It was in November 2011. I just came out of a bad break up and my brother recommended the series to me for distraction. Then I read an article about Sibel Kekilli and it was mentioned she has a role in game of thrones. Since I liked the actress I had another reason to start the series.