Yeah, I wouldn't spend the time. You will likely get really into it and will want to keep going, and then the ending is going to just bust your dreams about what the whole series could have been, but wasted all that time building up. Before people would be like "what, you're not watching Game of Thrones!? Are you nuts!?" Now, they'd be like "you were wise saving your time."

This is kind of why I like movies more. They usually don't waste time with too much filler and if the movie ends up being lousy anyway, it was only at the cost of a few hours.