This season will have only seven episodes in total, and season 8 has now been confirmed to be even shorter, with a meager six episodes in total.
It’s really exciting to me not knowing, genuinely having no idea where it’s going to end, what they’ve got in their heads, and being the first to find out.”
“It’s just amazing, in some ways, having no book to go on, because the scripts come through and you’re completely in the dark about what they’re going to do.
That is to say, even they still don’t know how the story ends.