It takes a kingdom to cover Game of Thrones for Vulture, but the staffers manning the ship this season include Matt Zoller Seitz, Nate Jones, Rachel Handler, Jackson McHenry, Jen Chaney, and Kathryn VanArendonk. In April 2019, Game of Thrones accounted for 13 percent of traffic across New York Magazine’s websites. Recappers of the show have included 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, actor Andy Daly (Keith Quinn on the final season of Veep), and Vulture writers Rachel Handler and Nina Shen Rastogi, who has been doing them regularly for the past five seasons. With a total of 1,483 Game of Thrones–tagged posts on Vulture alone, 108 on the Cut, and 10 on Grub Street and Intelligencer, respectively, coverage of the show has attracted 6,370,332 unique visitors in the last two years alone.
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Some 1,613 articles later, New York Magazine and its sites have stuck with the series to the bitter end.
Though the show’s initial low ratings didn’t seem promising to many, West Coast editor Josef Adalian predicted that HBO would stick with it, with a post the morning after the show’s premiere titled “ Game of Thrones Is No Boardwalk Empire.”
Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire finally made its debut on HBO, and Vulture posted its first recap of the show, a debate between superfan Adam Pasick and newbie Margaret Lyons about whether or not they’d be sticking with the series. “There’s not much to go on here, but in the Game of Thrones world … seasons last for decades, so ‘winter is coming’ is fairly intense,” wrote Edith Zimmerman, then an assistant editor at Vulture (now a health writer at the Cut), about the first teaser, when it aired in 2010.
New York Magazine began its long history covering Game of Thrones with a whisper.
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