Kit Harington Gets Emotion Over Game of Thrones Ending Harington is in the middle of shooting the final season of the hit HBO series, admitting to Deadline that he was "more affected by it than I thought I would be." Eight years of your life is a long time to connect with anything. I didn’t know at the beginning if this would be a show that no one would watch or if it would be a show that a lot of people would watch. And I’ve never been in a situation, a show, that’s lasted this long. In my life it’s pretty significant thing that’s happened to me, and coming to the end of it is understandably quite emotional. It's be speculated that season 8 of Game of Thrones will start in 2019 and the cast feels the pressure to deliver. Whereas before, every year there’s always been a bit of pressure, this season is one where we could easily let people down. Obviously, we don’t want to do that so we’re very much stepping up everyone’s game which is very apparent, at least to me.