Game of Thrones Obsession

My son and his friends have obsessions with certain TV shows. They power watch all episodes that are available on Netflix or Hulu and will hole up for hours and days at a time watching a show from beginning to current episode. Madmen is one of my son’s favorite shows and another is Game of Thrones. I have heard of the shows because of my son, but yesterday he was working on homework out front and wanted to watch Game of Thrones on demand while working. So mom watched some of it too.

Honestly, I do not know why this type of show has the younger generation obsessed with it. Based on a book and set in like the 1400’s in Scotland or somewhere similar, Game of Thrones is basically a show with a massive amount of characters that betray one another, kill and torture one another all for the sake of some young king somewhere. There was no way to follow the story for me because of the amount of people in it and at least 7 different story threads going on in one show. Plus it is a dark story. No, thanks not for me.

Do you watch Game of Thrones? Do you enjoy these types of stories? I am not sure why the younger set is obsessed with it other than the nudity and sex, which they seem to have often. Strange…