House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel which is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. HBO is planning to re-taste the success of Game of Thrones, I mean when you have the biggest show in TV history it is quite a bummer when it ends and that too on a sour note. Even if Game of Thrones has ended, HBO plans on making money by giving fans more stories from the same universe. At the time of writing, there are seven GOT spin-offs/prequels in development. One of them being House of the Dragon. The show will focus on House Targaryen- the same house Daenerys belonged to. The show will feature the might of the Targaryens and their reign on the Seven Kingdoms until things went south.
The first season of the show is debuting on HBO and HBO Max next month and is said to have 10 episodes. The showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik intend to make at least 5 seasons. If the show plans on doing that then it has to continue to perform well HBO throughout its many seasons. However, before we fantasize about the future. House of the Dragon Season 1 has to set the standards for HBO this year. Recently HBO held a premiere of House of the Dragon in Los Angeles however, we can’t get the reviews of the critics who saw it until the Embargo is over.
When will House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 1’s Reviews Come Out?
The Embargo that HBO has established will come to an end on 21st August. As the Embargo ends, the reviews of the 1st Episode along with the plot details of the same will be out. The screening of the prequel drew a glowing reception at the recently opened Academy Museum in Los Angeles. The embargo going on till the premiere date is an odd move by HBO and is generally considered that the product is not good. That’s why the production house holds back the media to release their negative reviews until the very last moment so as to draw as many audience as possible initially.
Co-Showrunner Miguel Sapochnik said to AFP on the Red Carpet, “So now they get the chance to have a different experience. I hope they will. “Whereas the original ‘Game of Thrones’ was about multiple different families that are spread over multiple continents, ours is a much more intimate story. It’s really about the dissolution of one family. So in a way, it wasn’t hard for it to be different.”
Ryan Condal, Co-Showrunner talked to AFP on the Red Carpet, “Very difficult” to end the original “Thrones” but that its prequel is “a totally new deal, it’s 170 years in the past. I think there was a grieving process for the fans. They had spent 10 years with these characters, they’d grown up with them.”
The HBO show has an incredible ensemble cast that includes Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans. Along with the main cast, the supporting cast of the show includes- Milly Alcock, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Emily Carey, Harry Collett, Ryan Corr, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Wil Johnson, John Macmillan, Graham McTavish, Ewan Mitchell, Theo Nate, Matthew Needham, Bill Paterson, Phia Saban, Gavin Spokes, Savannah Steyn, and more.
House of the Dragon will debut on HBO and HBO Max or Disney+ Hotstar depending on the region you live on 21st August 2022.
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