Game of Thrones star has never met anyone who liked the final season

Thomas Brodie-Sangster played Jojen Reed on Game of Thrones, and while he hasn’t yet watched all the way through the series, he’s HEARD plenty.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster played Jojen Reed on Game of Thrones, the enigmatic boy who helped Bran Stark tap into his powers as the Three-Eyed Raven. Like a lot of other characters, he died before he reached the finish line of the show, killed by wights outside the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave, far north of the Wall.

“It would have been fun to come back for one more season, but it was good and my death was cool,” Brodie-Sangster told NME. “I get stabbed repeatedly and that looks a little bit comical, but then my sister comes over and tries to put me out of my misery and slits my throat and then a girl comes out the middle of nowhere and throws a Molotov cocktail at me and I explode.” Not a bad way to go, all things considered.

That was a long while ago now. Has Brodie-Sangster kept up with the show since Jojen’s untimely death? “I’m still halfway through season four,” he said. “I don’t have the right channel and just lost track of it a bit… I was thinking the other day I should probably watch it again, because it was really good.” Well, his death is one twist he’ll see coming, at least.

It’s interesting to get the perspective of someone who was involved with the show but who only heard about what happens in the later seasons from the general chatter. And Brodie-Sangster definitely heard what people were saying about the show, even if he didn’t get the specifics. “I did really enjoy it,” he said. “Lots of people really like it, except no-one seems to like the last episode or the last season. I haven’t met anyone that likes it so far.”

I have met people who enjoyed the final season, but to be fair, it was at Con of Thrones, the world’s premiere Game of Thrones convention, and they were in full cosplay so clearly they were pretty committed. Back at the hotel, even the guy who randomly started talking to me in the elevator hated it.

At the moment, you can catch Brodie-Sangster as charismatic narcissist Benny Watts in The Queen’s Gambit, about aspiring chess grandmaster Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy). It’s available on Netflix now!

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