Game Of Thrones Actress Natalia Tena Reveals She Hated The Final Season

Game of Thrones' final season proved to be incredibly divisive, with the last three episodes in particular drawing criticism from longtime fans.

There was even a petition asking HBO to reshoot season 8. More than 1.7 million fans signed it.

For the most part, the stars of the show have backed the final season – including Nathalie Emmanuel and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – but one actress who admitted she was disappointed with how the show ended was Natalia Tena, who played Osha the wildling.

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Tena appeared on the latest episode of Yahoo's White Wine Question Time podcast (you can listen via iTunes or Spotify) alongside Faye Marsay, who played the Waif.

Speaking to host Kate Thornton, Tena said that she binged the final season and enjoyed it up to the end of the Battle of Winterfell, when Arya Stark kills the Night King.

However, she wasn't a fan of the three episodes that followed, and said that it felt like 'different people' had written the scripts.

'I liked it to the bit where she stabs him in the heart,' Tena said. 'I liked it up to then. But after that, I just feel like – I just didn't understand.

'The calibre of writing towards the end and the plots and everything that happens and how they wrapped it up compared to any other season, any other bit, it just feels like it's been written by different people.

'It doesn't make sense, for me.'

Tena added: 'I was a few glasses of wine in when I watched it. I'd binge-watched the whole thing, but I ended up... my boyfriend had to leave the boat because I was ranting for an hour at him about how much I didn't like it.

'And then I rang my friend to rant to him.

'It's done. I don't think I'd go as far as petition. I think they had to end it. [But] I don't understand why they made those choices.'

Game of Thrones aired on HBO in the US, and you can also catch up on the show via Hulu. Viewers in the UK can catch up via Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.

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