George RR Martin’s world struts its way back on to our screens with utter confidence and brio. As captivating as it is gruesome, it’s like a greatest hits playlist of Westeros at its meatiest
is simply spectacular. For an hour, it rattles through everything that made its predecessor, Game of Thrones, such a titan of the small screen, especially when it was in its prime. It is a greatest hits playlist of Westeros at its meatiest. Family members make promises they cannot keep as they connive and betray each other, in secret and in plain sight. There is jousting, romping and fighting. There are dragons, of course.
Episodes one to five centre on young Princess Rhaenyra , the only child of King Viserys I . Rhaenyra is a strong, ambitious and courageous teenage girl, and would be an ideal heir, were it not for the fact that the Lords have already made it clear, in very recent history, that tradition demands a king, and not a queen, on the Iron Throne. In this world, royal women are breeding machines and bargaining chips. “I am glad I am not a woman,” says one male character, later in the series.
House of the Dragon takes its time to drip-feed the down-in-the-dirt baddies that are so enjoyable to rail against.Photograph: HBO/2022 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and all related programs are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.Elvis Presley
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