What is Game of Thrones?
{{Infobox television | image = Game of Thrones 2011 logo.svg | image_alt = Logo of Game of Thrones | genre = {{plainlist| * [[Fantasy]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Noah Harari |first1=Yuval |title=Game of Thrones: A Battle of Reality Versus Fantasy |url=https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-thrones-a-battle-of-reality-versus-fantasy/ |access-date=May 19, 2020 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=May 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603092336/https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-thrones-a-battle-of-reality-versus-fantasy/ |archive-date=June 3, 2019 }}</ref> * [[Serial drama]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Alsop |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Unbearable Darkness of Prestige Television |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/true-detective-game-of-thrones-bleak-television/397577/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 19, 2020 |work=[[The Atlantic]]|publisher=[[Emerson Collective]] |date=July 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710080204/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/true-detective-game-of-thrones-bleak-television/397577/ |archive-date=July 10, 2015|quote=From the bro-style bloviating (or, broviating) of ''[[True Detective]]''{{'}}s first season, to the ominous proclaiming that punctuates the general whoring and slaying of ''Game of Thrones'', to the unceasing climatological and psychological punishments meted out to the cast of ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]'', it seems as though some of the most celebrated recent examples of serial drama have elected self-seriousness as their default tone.}}</ref> * [[Tragedy]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Arp |first1=Robert |author-link=Robert Arp|editor1-last=J. Silverman |editor1-first=Eric |title=The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy |date=2017 |publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company]] |isbn=9780812699555 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMIxDQAAQBAJ&dq=game+of+thrones+%22tragedy%22&pg=PT21 |quote=Like ''Game of Thrones