It looks as thought Father's Day this year was a very good one for many Game of Thrones fans as the popular HBO series saw its best ratings yet for it's Season 4 finale.

With all the pre-buzz surrounding The Children finale, the fantasy drama had an estimated 7.1 million viewers tune in to see Tyrion Lannister kill his father Tywin while he was on the toilet.

According to reports, this was a 32 percent jump in ratings from the third-season ender last year and one of the biggest season finales yet for Game of Thrones. Back in 2011, the first-season finale brought in only 3 million viewers.

With Sunday night's encores, reports say that a total of 9.3 million viewers tuned in for the Season 4 finale, making it its top rated episode ever.

Meanwhile, Game of Thrones director Alex Graves told TV Guide in a new interview that the show's different twist on Tywin's death on their Father's Day finale was a rather unconventional move for the show, but one that fans will remember for seasons to come.

"Tywin's death is the anti-Game of Thrones death in that it's very simple," Graves said. "There's a guy sitting down and rather [than] it being how much blood or how much gore or how shocking it was, it's actually about how futile and humiliating it is that this pillar of strength and arrogance who had had an enormous purpose in the Way of the Five Kings is killed on the toilet, a death he would not be happy with."

Season 5 of the series is slated to return in 2015.

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