Speaking in a new interview with EW, Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss noted that the sixth season has been the most challenging yet, but they believe it's also the best they've done.
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Benioff said: "The whole season. 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]. 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."
The co-creators will be looking to continue the show's run of success, with the fifth season picking up the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series last year. The fifth season was also the most-watched to-date, averaging audiences of 6.88 million viewers per episode.
Game of Thrones season 6 will premiere on HBO on April 24, simulcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic and also airing Mondays from April 25 on the same channel in the UK.
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