The Season 2 premiere episode of House of the Dragon, “A Son for a Son,” picks up where Season 1 left on. Everyone’s mourning the loss of Prince Luke, but more tragedy is on the horizon.
A civil war is brewing amongst the Targaryens. After the murder of Prince Luke, Team Black, led by Queen Rhaenyra, seeks revenge against Team Green. Meanwhile, Queen Regent Alicent Hightower worries about the king’s Small Council.
During this episode of the House of the Dragon After Show, Jose Cordova and I break down each beat of the premiere episode while also trying to remember everyone’s names. We discuss how some of the gripes we had about Season 1 carry over into Season 2, how we’re still excited for more dragon lore, and how the Blood and Cheese ending landed for us non book readers. It’s a solid start to the season. Mostly, we’re just glad there’s no more time jumps.
House of the Dragon “A Son for a Son” was written by Ryan J. Condal and Ti Mikkel, and directed by Alan Taylor. It stars Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Matthew Needham, Sonoya Mizuno, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Phia Saban, and Harry Collett.
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Photo illustration by Katey Stoetzel
Katey is co-founder and tv editor for InBetweenDrafts. She hosts the “House of the Dragon After Show” and “Between TV” podcasts and can be read in various other places like Inverse and Screen Speck. She wishes desperately the binge model of tv watching would die, but still gets mad when she runs out of episodes of tv to watch.
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