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    'Avengers: Endgame' and 'Game of Thrones' preach unite or perish. Maybe we should listen

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times May 01, 2019 4 minutes

    Two pop culture behemoths took victory laps over the weekend, complete with crowds of cheering fans and hyperbolic math.

    In a single week, "Avengers: Endgame" saved the summer box office before summer even began with goal-post-moving billion-dollar-plus earnings, quashing any hope Hollywood would back off, just a little, on all those big franchises. Meanwhile, the third episode of HBO's "Game of Thrones" broke just as many records, becoming the most viewed episode in HBO history (take that, "Sopranos"), the most viewed episode in all of television this year and the most tweeted episode of scripted television in the history of television.

    Big numbers are always reassuring in an industry struggling with an increasingly splintered audience, but

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