NEW YORK, USA – First, the good news: The first two episodes of season two of House of the Dragon are compelling and whet your desire to see the rest of the eight-episode original drama. Ryan Condal, now the sole showrunner of the series, deliberately takes his time in unfolding the new season and the result is a deeper, more absorbing season opener that forbodes of the spectacle in the coming episodes. HBO is tapping into the dynamism and intrigue of the Black and Green Councils fighting for power and the Iron Throne.
So, they are asking the question: Are you Team Black or Team Green in this sophomore season of the show based on George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood ? https://x.com/nepalesruben/status/1798577455248363618 Whatever side you are rooting for, season two, set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones , is earning praise from critics, with a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes as I write this. As The Daily Beast’s Nick Schager succinctly put it, “Condal’s series is a gripping portrait of the eternal hunger for wealth, pleasure, power, and supremacy.
” Empire Magazine critic Dan Jolin raved, “Above all else, House of the Dragon remains a spiky, acidic human drama; an astute, timely, and well-performed study of the way power and wisdom are so often mutually exclusive, and of the tragic consequences that occur when the former is exercised without the latter.” In a recent in-person press conference (it was also available via Zoom to other journalists) at New Yo.
