Cameron Dixon
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In Game of Thrones, the events that precede the War of Five Kings all happen in a relative blur: Barely seven months pass between when Jaime Lannister pushes Bran Stark out of a tower and Robb Stark raises an army.
The stark difference between winning a throne and actually sitting in it day after day has made good material for Westeros fantasy shows since the very beginning of Game of Thrones, and Rhaenyra's storyline this season continued that rich tradition.
What made Game of Thrones such a phenomenon when it first released was how it felt like any character was in constant danger of being killed off at any moment.
This is one of those episodes that most clearly justifies what House of the Dragon wants to be beyond Game of Thrones. After all, Game of Thrones often asked, who will win? This finale asks something nastier.
To have her also dragged down into the abyss that is the Game of Thrones was really, really, really tragic and hard to watch and hard to dramatize, and then hard to see being dramatized for all those reasons.
However, House of the Dragon excels at depicting the aftermath of battle, even better than its wildly popular predecessor.
The result is borderline Succession-esque in its level of absurdity, and D’Arcy, so reliably tormented, gets to show sides of the character that have never even been hinted at before.
Succession with dragons? Yes please.
It plays like The West Wing rewritten by someone who loves Shakespeare’s history plays.
…with a touch of West Wing-style governing drama…
To invoke Lord Jerry of Seinfeld: Anyone can take power, but holding power is a different story.
Patrick Bateman’s unraveling mind in American Psycho…
The third and fourth episodes, which deserved to be stretched over a full season, are also borderline The Wire-esque, because they weave in budgetary crises and expose faltering institutions across Westeros — failings of bureaucracy that happen because the country is ruled by battling oligarchs who couldn’t care less about the 99 percent.
Justine readily accepting the end of the world in Melancholia…
Think of Jackie Cogan rejecting American exceptionalism in Killing Them Softly…
…after a Columbo-style “one more thing” from Daemon…
…cooing in Rhaenyra’s ear about world domination like they’re Pinky and the Brain…
…evidenced by all the memes comparing him to Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton) from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia…
For the record, this is the same service provided by The Rock in Fast Five, where he’d meet one of the 500 characters in the franchise and promptly say, “Ah, I read your file” before listing off biographical bullet points that served as a refresher for the viewing audience.
Not since A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has HBO delivered an episode within the Game of Thrones universe with this much appetite for cinematic bravery.
…especially in the wake of its more creatively successful sibling A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms…
And so begins another season of another Game of Thrones spinoff, and so quickly off the heels of the triumphant A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 should arrive next year to distract the fandom.
Near-perfect prequel Better Call Saul’s characters hardly ever left Albuquerque, but the rarely overlapping lawyer and cartel sides of the series kept each sphere feeling fresh.
Similar pointless discussions followed House of the Dragon, the live-action Little Mermaid remake, and just about every other genre film or TV show in the last 30 years.
I realize, as I’m typing this, that I’m basically just pitching Elsbeth but with Mysaria.
Instead, the night plays more like The Menu.