With the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones just around the corner, HBO’s programming chief Casey Bloys has said that fans will be “really really happy” with the ending.

As reported by Deadline, Bloys discussed how he feels as a fan of the show and how well he feels executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have done.

“The only thing I will say as a fan of the show is that I think the guys have done a brilliant job of ending the show in a dramatically satisfying and emotionally satisfying way,” Bloys said. “I do believe that fans are going to be really really happy with how it all wraps up.”

Bloys words echo HBO’s CEO Richard Plepler’s comments that, in regards to the final season’s six episodes, he is “in awe” and that “everybody’s in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production.”

Kit Harrington/Jon Snow, on the other hand, is a little more on the fence, saying “I’m satisfied with what they did, but I don’t know whether I’ll be really satisfied until I see it.”

Game of Thrones’ eighth season will begin on April 14, 2019, and HBO has released a teaser, which we’ve broken down, as well as the first official photos from the final episodes.

and Daenerys made off with an army of 8,000 Unsullied soldiers after she turned her dragons loose on the slave masters of Astapor, leaving scorched earth and crackled bodies in her wake. DRACARYS!”,”height”:720,”width”:1280,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2018\/09\/11\/12-1536685649056.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2018\/09\/11\/12-1536685649056_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”The 25 Best Game of Thrones Episodes”,”relativePosition”:15,”albumTotalCount”:26},{“caption”:”11: \u0022The Laws of Gods and Men\u0022 (Season 4) – Tyrion Lannister stood trial in \u201cThe Laws of Gods and Men,\u201d unjustly accused of regicide, watching his loved ones betray him as his own sister blamed him for the death of her son. Star Peter Dinklage delivered one of the show\u0027s most powerful scenes as a convicted Tyrion spit poison and unleashed years of pent-up hatred at everyone in the court. 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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN and can only hope he will feel the same way as Bloys. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.