Game of Thrones Bombshell

As the Emmy-winning HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones sets its six-episode return on April 8^th, USA Today took a look at a few key numbers.

73: number of episodes of the show, including the eighth and final upcoming season.

80: the number of minutes of the show’s longest and most recent episode, The Dragon and the Wolf.

1 hour +: the lengthy of all six upcoming episodes.

32.8 million: average audience for season 7, the show’s most popular.

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132: total Emmy nominations received.

47: Emmy statuettes earned.

5: number of books published in George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series, on which the show was based. Two more books by Martin are expected.

186: number of deaths so far.

14: Percent probability of dying within the first hour of appearing on screen.

EMILIA CLARKE ON GOT FINALE

Meanwhile, Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen on GOT is freaking fans out with her reaction to her character’s fate. Once learning of what happened, she tells Esquire she wandered London for “three hours, aimlessly.”

She added, “It might as well have been raining and I would’ve just walked in it not knowing what to do.” Plus, there were “loads of tears” and wine on her end. “That was the moment I realized that alcohol can also be a depressant,” she said. “I was kind of nursing a glass of wine, going, ‘I don’t know why I’m not getting any happier from this.’”