Game of Thrones — a medieval fantasy show based on “A Song of Ice and Fire,” a series of seven fantasy novels — raked in a high level of check-ins on Get Glue not only the night of the show, but in the days leading up to the premiere.
“We also had over 90,000 check-ins for the week leading up to the premiere,” a GetGlue spokesperson told Mashable, noting that the first episode of Game of Thrones last year brought in just 9,000 check-ins on.
To put the 50,000 check-ins into context, the highly-anticipated return of Mad Men last week brought in 22,000 check-ins. Meanwhile, the season 2 premiere of The Walking Dead had 43,000 and the 2011 season premiere of True Blood had 38,000 check ins.