Streaming or Downloading Game of Thrones Season 8 May Get You Malware

Not really. I've seen torrents of popular movies or series which were just a .zip file, which unpacked into an .exe file containing nothing but malware and tons of padding bytes to make the file have approximately correct size for what the torrent title advertises.

While you or I just chuckle at this, there are tons of people who would just run that .exe in their blind desire to watch the hyped thing.