lopper

eXcentris

Well it's a tad unfocused and it won't win any Oscars but the point is that it ain't your usual "making of", which is what some were expecting. And that's fine by me.

bluesix

Agree!

There were some nice moments captured but no overall story that linked everything together other than 'its Season 8 and its the biggest yet and we all are so tired of this but we are still gonna miss it'

While this was clearly true, there were also great scenes that pointed out the unique craziness of show business through the stuntman turned actor playing the Night King who the fans in Spain were still able to recognize and the fanboy extra who had been working on the show for years who finally reached nirvana by offering Kit Harington his crew jacket and actually being acknowledge and remembered by him! (Shivers!) I loved the credits sequence that later showed him leading GOT tours of the sets now that his career had ended!

Some clear misses were the scenes focusing on the makeup crew who IMHO 'selfishly' and naively outbid others to win the makeup work on the show without even having enough crew and supplies to do the work after they they were awarded the job. I felt no sympathy for her or her daughter who she abandoned out of her own greed. And her constant complaining about having to wait the long hours to hear if things had been wrapped. Wow, pretty ungrateful considering how many other shops out there would have killed for that work.

I also didn't enjoy much of the scenes centering around Bernie Caulfield who is widely respected as the true force who pulled the show together, or David Nutter who though he is also widely respected came across as being aloof and eccentric and sort of sad. These two people are both incredibly successful and must have some fascinating things to say but this documentary just made them come across as boring.

Or course whenever the actors were on screen it only made you want to see more of them. It was fascinating to watch the table read even if just to take note of who was seated next to who. And Kit Harington's widely report emotional breakdown is completely overblown. He clearly was surprised and moved but not more than that. It would have been nice to see more of the other actors 'out of character' but as others pointed out that wasn't the point of this documentary.