The whole season, Benioff replied.

Dan and I talk about this a lot.

This is not us trying to hype it.

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This season there is not a weak episode.

We had great directors who knew what they were doing, paired with excellent [directors of photography].

We thought at the script stage it might be our strongest season.

Then the episodes came in better than we hoped.

And Dan and I are so close to it that its impossible to be unbiased.

But thats my sense watching them all together now, this is the best one weve done.

Its also the one Im proudest of, because it was the hardest.

But why was this new season the hardest to produce?