'Who will survive?': How 'Game of Thrones' staged an unprecedented bloodbath

'Breaking the Script' (4/5). On June 2, 2013, the end of the third season of 'Game of Thrones' stunned viewers by depicting the brutal murder of one of the saga's houses, in an episode that immediately went viral on social media. The carnage sparked a trend of aestheticized violence in television fiction series. Spoiler alert!