Game of Thrones Season 6 showrunner David Benioff says this season will be the strongest of the franchise. Benioff explained to Entertainment Weekly they didn’t rely on hype to get people interested in the upcoming season. Benioff said it was important for the production Game of Thrones Season 6 that there were no “weak” episodes.
“The whole season,” Benioff told Entertainment Weekly. “Dan and I talk about this a lot. This is not us trying to hype it. Usually there’s an episode or two we’re kind of nervous about, that didn’t turn out as well as we hoped. This season there is not a weak episode. We had great directors who knew what they were doing, paired with excellent [directors of photography].”
Benioff continued, “We thought at the script stage it might be our strongest season. Then the episodes came in better than we hoped. We’re always reluctant to say it’s ‘the best season yet’ because so much of that is in the eyes of the beholder. And Dan and I are so close to it that it’s impossible to be unbiased. But that’s my sense – watching them all together now, this is the best one we’ve done. It’s also the one I’m proudest of, because it was the hardest.”
Game of Thrones fans will have to wait and see if Benioff’sstatements about the show’s sixth season are true. Really, all Game of Thrones fans really want to know is if the R+L-=J theory is true, and whether Melisandre will be involved in the rumored resurrection.
Game of Thrones Season 6 premieres April 24 on HBO.
