Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4: How to watch, recaps, schedule and how to stream HBO without cable – CNET

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At 82 heart-pounding minutes, The Long Night was the longest, darkest episode of Game of Thrones yet. I’ll keep this spoiler-free in case you were busy warging last Sunday and missed the long-awaited Battle for Winterfell. Seriously, getting your Bran on is the only excuse I’ll accept for not being in front of your TV for last week’s episode. 

If you’re late to the Thrones party, there’s still time to catch up on all the action in Westeros. And if you want to look ahead, the trailer for episode 4 indicates that our heroes will soon… well, even that might be a spoiler. 

In either case, you’ll need a way to watch HBO. Thankfully there are plenty of easy ways to subscribe, even if you don’t have cable, starting with HBO Now and HBO Go. Note that CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the services featured on this page.

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*$25 monthly = 1/12 of annual $120 Amazon Prime fee plus $15 per month for HBO

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Game of Thrones season 8 schedule

This last season is comprised of six supersize episodes. The premiere has the shortest runtime of the season at 54 minutes. Episode 2 is 58 minutes, and the final four are each roughly 80 minutes. It will all be over — sniff — by mid-May. 

Plan to clear out your Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central) in the US, from now until the middle of May. Here’s the schedule:

  • Episode 1: Winterfell (54 minutes; now available on demand)
  • Episode 2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (58 minutes; now available on demand)
  • Episode 3: The Long Night (82 minutes; now available on demand)
  • Episode 4: May 5 (78 minutes)
  • Episode 5: May 12 (80 minutes)
  • Episode 6: May 19 (80 minutes)

(Episode lengths via EW.)

HBO’s main two streaming options

Add HBO to a streaming service

You can add HBO to four of the TV streaming services below for an additional monthly charge. If you’re a GoT fan and also a subscriber to Sling TV or YouTube TV, then I’m sorry to report that you’re out of luck: neither service offers HBO. Here are four that do.

Game of Thrones in the UK, Australia and elsewhere

Game of Thrones, according to HBO, airs in all but four countries around the world — but not necessarily on HBO itself. In the UK, for example, HBO shows are on Sky Atlantic and Sky’s online services Sky Go and Now TV. In Australia, Game of Thrones airs on TV and online on Foxtel. In both countries the show airs at the same time as in the US (i.e., early Monday), and is repeated on Monday night.

And for the record, HBO restricts the use of VPNs used to stream any of the above services from outside the US.

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Originally published March 5 and regularly updated as episodes air.

source: cnet.com