Despite the warmer tone, this is still adult Westeros. Graphic violence, strong language, crude humor, and nudity make it a poor fit for unsupervised family viewing with younger children.
Pros: story quality, entertainment value
Cons: violence level, editing quality
This is not positioned as family viewing; adult language, sex, violence, and darker themes make it better suited to mature audiences.
Pros: character development, cast chemistry
Cons: faithfulness to source material, story quality
This is not positioned as family viewing; profanity, sexual jokes, infidelity and other adult material are cited as reasons many families will want to skip it.
Pros: entertainment value, humor
Cons: story quality, modern political framing
The show is emphatically not family-friendly because of graphic violence, disturbing imagery, and strong language.
Pros: genre satisfaction, acting quality
Cons: writing quality, CGI quality