Funny, I couldn’t get through G0T at all. I tried I really did. But the show has too many characters, too many plot lines, and just when you can wrap your head around any of them the writer(s) killed the characters and plots off.
Sure we all have our own personal tastes and preferences and yes, it is very grizzly and gory. But for me, it was completely unwatchable because it’s impossible to follow the story. Which is fine for an art piece, like The Other Side of the Wind by Orson Welles (on Netflix, with a companion documentary by Peter Bogdonovich).
HBO has recently licensed a lot of the old Turner Classic Movies library. A lot of the old MGM films. I have been watching them. Some of them produced 30-40 years before I was born. When you have downtime, scroll through and see what catches your eye. I saw Barry Lyndon, which is beautiful, and Lolita and 2001 in my own personal Stanley Kubrick marathon last weekend. Also watched some Bogie, and even the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Great stuff on their stream right now.
MaBell acquired TCM and all the other Turner properties via their purchase of Time/Warner, IIRC.
If you think the plot lines were difficult in the show you should read the books. I did and it was quite tedious. LoL
Hollywierd hated Elia Kazan because he was an ex commie who rolled on his fellow travelers. That is why I went and started watching all his stuff. Well worth the effort.