"No internet helped."
People even would not tell spoilers, so endings of movies like "The Crying Game" went on for quite a long time, so that I knew only that there was a surprising end. When the surprise came, my head jerked back so hard it hit the wall, and I cried
As for the Game of Thrones, I've seen only one, and do my best to avoid these until they are all on Netflix streaming. It is surprisingly easily to do. But I do this at the cost of being a few years out of date.