On Sunday, Game of Thrones fans and also HBO hopes people who never watch Game of Thrones get to return to wild wild Westeros for more politicking. The house of the dragon is a prequel to Game of Thrones, it's centered on the ice blonde, ice-colleted Targaryen clan. It's set 200 years before Queen Danny loses her mind and burns it all down.
HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’s disastrous finale disappointed viewers, and the prequel is being released as HBO’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, undertakes massive cost-cutting measures. Still: DRAGONS.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominquez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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