Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen. Theo Whitman/HBO hide caption When last we left the vast lands of Westeros, battle lines were irrevocably drawn, two very different royal butts vied to park themselves upon the Iron Throne, and one dragon chomped another neatly in twain like it was the ribbon at the grand opening of a King’s Landing laundromat. Catch up with last season's House of the Dragon recaps here , and stay updated this summer.
Recaps will appear on Sunday evenings after each episode ends. Here’s a handy-dandy scorecard, of the can’t-tell-the-players-without-one variety. We’re dealing with two sides that each claim they are the rightful heirs to the Iron Throne: Team Green in King’s Landing, and Team Black on the island of Dragonstone.
These are the folks who, as season 2 opens, reside in and around the Red Keep, in King’s Landing. They seized power when the old king Viserys (Paddy Considine) died, even though he’d named his daughter Rhaenyra (see below) his heir, years before. They consist of: Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke): Talks a big game about faith and decorum and the importance of peace, but is perfectly happy to benefit from the dirty deeds wrought by her underlings, if it means her son ( King Aegon II , below) can rule.
Misunderstood her late husband’s dying words, and set in motion a chain of events that are about to cause lots of folks to get immolated by dragon halitosis. Olivia Cooke as Queen Alicent in House of the Dragon. Ollie Upton/HBO hide.
