The books are honestly pretty good and so is the show up to a point, minus all the SA though.

I think in the future the series will be used as a case study. The last seasons were so bad they completely overwrote the cultural memory of all that lead up to them. It became gambo and had always been gambo. But there's a reason why everyone and their mum was watching it. The entire internet sat down and watched it together for a reason.
It was good fantasy. Until it wasn't