And so, House of the Dragon is gone for another year. The Sky Atlantic show, which is set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, wrapped up its second season last night, and the reception has been mixed. The show follows the power struggles between the ‘Green’ and ‘Black’ factions, who both claim the Iron Throne as their own.
Finally done with the time-jumping antics of the first season (in which Paddy Considine’s Viserys aged and withered faster than an avocado left in the sun), this time around we had dragon battles, plots galore and...
a whole lot of Daemon wandering around Harrenhal by himself, hallucinating. Here’s our roundup of the good, the bad and the ugliest moments of season two. After being teased with flashes of dragonwing in season one, season two fully stretches the CGI budget by giving us lots of dragons.
We see Vhagar, Meleys and Syrax, of course, but then the show really goes off-piste by sending the Black team off on a quest to ‘reclaim’ some of the world’s oldest dragons in the name of war. Thus we get Seasmoke (who bonds with Addam of Hull in a much-memed scene), Vermithor, the second-largest dragon to ever exist, who bonds with Hugh the Hammer, and Silverwing, who is claimed by the half-brother of Viserys and Daemon. Seeing so many snapping, snarling creatures on-screen never ceases to be a delight, especially at the end of episode seven, when Vhagar is turned away by Rhaenyra’s newly-formed dragon army.
By far the best episo.