More than four years after airing its final season, a hit historical epic series is slated to be removed from Netflix this December. It joins other shows superficially marketed as Netflix Originals — for example, The End of the F***ing World and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life — to be removed from the platform this year. These removals happen because Netflix doesn’t own distribution rights in perpetuity. According to What’s on Netflix, the streamer retains the option to renew them, but in the case of these shows, it chose not to.
Netflix handled international distribution on The End of the F***ing World, which aired from 2017 to 2019 and was removed from the streamer on November 5. Netflix acquired distribution rights to the historical epic in 2018, three years after its debut on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Netflix began co-producing the show after Season 1, not long after it entered the original programming business. This coincided with the peak of Game of Thrones‘ success, prompting other platforms to seek their own replacements. In many ways, Netflix is still trying to produce a Game of Thrones-level fantasy hit, despite having poached that show’s creative duo.
Netflix entered into a similar agreement for the History Channel series Vikings, which debuted in 2013. Netflix aired the show’s spin-off, Vikings: Valhalla, between 2022 and 2024. The historical epic slated to be removed from the platform is based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell, and stars Alexander Dreymon and Tobias Santelmann in the lead roles.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To? Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Tyrell
Your drink, your weapon, your seat at the table, what you do to somebody who wrongs you. Eight quick calls and we will tell you whose banner you should actually be standing under. Four houses are still in this: the cold one, the rich one, the one with the dragons, and the one that has never needed a sword to get its way.
🐺Stark(Game of Thrones)
🦁Lannister(Game of Thrones)
🐉Targaryen(House of the Dragon)
🌹Tyrell(Game of Thrones)
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What is your go-to at the feast? Everybody has one, and everybody’s says something.
02
Pick a weapon off the wall. You get one. Choose quickly.
03
Where do you end up sitting? The seating plan is the politics.
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What do people get wrong about you? Reputation arrives about a week before you do.
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One free evening in King’s Landing. Where do you go? Nobody plots every single night.
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Somebody wrongs you. What happens next? This is the real personality test in Westeros.
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Your people are in trouble. What is your first move? No time to think about this one.
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Be honest. What do you actually want? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your house.
The Banner Is Raised Your House Is…
Four houses, four completely different theories about how you survive a
world like this one. Here is where your banner belongs, what the name would cost you, and what it
would buy.
Game of Thrones · HBO · 2011 to 2019
House Stark
You belong in the North, where the weather does most of the
arguing and nobody is impressed by a title. The Starks are the only great house on this list
who genuinely believe that being right matters more than winning, which is exactly why the
show spent eight years punishing them for it.
Your loyalty runs to people rather than to crowns, and you would rather lose a war
honestly than win one by doing something you would have to hide.
The Stark tragedy is a simple one, since a family raised to keep its word ended up
surrounded by people who treat a promise as an opening bid.
You are the one who thinks about the winter while everybody else is still enjoying the
summer, and the realm never thanks anybody for that.
What saves the Starks in the end is not swords. It is the fact that the children grew up
and became four completely different kinds of dangerous.
Game of Thrones · HBO · 2011 to 2019
House Lannister
You belong to the house that worked out early on that gold moves
faster than armies. Casterly Rock runs on leverage, reputation and the certainty that
everybody at the table owes you something, and you are perfectly comfortable with all three.
You play a longer game than the people around you, and you would rather own the outcome
quietly than be seen winning in public.
Family is the thing you would burn the realm for, which is both the best and the very
worst quality this house has.
Tyrion, Jaime and Cersei are three of the most compelling characters on television
precisely because they were raised with everything except the ability to be simple about
it.
You are not the villain of your own story. You are simply the one who read the rules
properly and decided to use them.
House of the Dragon · HBO · Since 2022
House Targaryen
You belong to the house that conquered a continent and never
quite got over it. Targaryens do not ask for a seat at the table, because in their version
of events the table was theirs to begin with, and that certainty is either magnificent or
catastrophic depending on the week.
You feel things at full volume, and nobody who has ever met a Targaryen has described
one as measured.
House of the Dragon made the family far more interesting than the original show could,
because here the enemy is not some other house. It is the rest of the bloodline.
Season 3 landed on HBO in June 2026 and pushed the civil war into the part everybody who
read the book has been dreading for years.
Your great strength and your great problem are the same thing, which is that you
genuinely believe the story was always going to end with you.
Game of Thrones · HBO · 2011 to 2019
House Tyrell
You belong to Highgarden, where nobody raises their voice and
everybody gets exactly what they came for. The Tyrells feed the realm, charm the realm and
quietly steer the realm, and they have never once needed to win a battle to get their way.
You understand that being liked is a weapon, and you are genuinely better at it than the
people who spend their lives trying to be feared.
Olenna is the most quietly ruthless character in the entire series, and she does all of
it from a chair with a bowl of fruit in front of her.
Your house wins by being useful, since a kingdom that cannot eat without you will
forgive you almost anything.
The risk of being a Tyrell is simple enough. Charm works beautifully on everybody except
the one person who has stopped caring what anyone thinks.
Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch the Historical Epic on Netflix in the U.S.
We’re talking, of course, about The Last Kingdom. The show holds a 91% critics’ score and a 95% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The show was evidently quite successful for the streamer; according to Netflix’s own viewership reports, the show amassed around 155 million views between 2023 and 2025. As with Vikings, Netflix produced a follow-up title for The Last Kingdom as well.
Titled The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, the spin-off movie holds an 82% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It premiered in 2023 and will remain on the streamer until 2033. The main series will be removed from Netflix in the United States on December 9, after being removed from the platform’s Canadian library earlier this year. The series will, however, remain on Netflix in the United Kingdom and Australia until 2028. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
