Beorn
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Well, you're in luck because this season is only seven episodes, and the very last season will only be six.
... wait, maybe luck isn't the right word.
Yes, maybe the best time I had with the show was leaping in during the middle, so I basically blitz-watched Seasons 1-3 and basically caught up with the airings around the time of the Purple Wedding. The rest of Season 4 was what I hoped for.
I didn't really enjoy Seasons 5-6 on a weekly basis nearly as much.
Still, each episode is like part of a movie in terms of production quality and cost. If you had a cheap TV show with lower production quality, you could afford to pump out 24 episodes a season. Breaking Bad only ran 13 episodes a season at its longest. (Seasons 5ab don't count since they were separated by more than a year.)
We might get 20 minutes or more extra per show.
Season 8 ‘Game of Thrones’ Episodes Could be Feature Length | Deadline