HS Analysis | House of the Dragon was left in a tickling situation: This is what’s to come in the 2nd season of the series that collected record audiences

Two it has been waiting for years. Launches today on the Max streaming service House of the Dragon – the second season of the series.

In August 2022, the first season of the series broke viewership records and garnered mostly positive reviews. The series is based on by George R.R. Martin Fire and blood -to the novel (Fin. Fairy Tale Spell), which tells about the stages of the Targaryen family about 200 years before Game of Thrones series of events. Martin has been closely involved in the preparation of the series, but is its actual creator and scriptwriter Ryan Condal.

The first season focused on building the world and getting to know the characters, but there was also enough action. The final episode left the viewers in a very ticklish situation.

So what can be expected now?

What would be best for the kingdom, thinks Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) who has lost her throne in the second season of House of the Dragon. Picture: Theo Whiteman

Follow the plot revelations about the events of the first season of the series.

House of the Dragon the first season started with a twist about who gets to sit on the iron throne. In the second season, the issue becomes more acute, because Viserys Targaryen, now named king (Paddy Considine) is dead.

Viserys named his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock and Emma D’Arcy). Viserys’ second consort, Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), however, the “green council” opposed the crowning of a woman.

Behind Rhaenyra’s back, the council crowned Viserys and Alicent’s son Aegon as king (Tom Glynn-Carney). When a pregnant Rhaenyra heard of the betrayal, the news caused her to go into premature labor. The child was stillborn.

However, Aegon’s brother, Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), who went after the Lucerys boy who acted as Rhaenyra’s messenger (Elliot Grihault). The chase ended with Aemond’s massive dragon teeth slamming around Lucerys and her dragon.

The final episode ended with a wordless scene where Daemon apparently broke the news of the boy’s death to Rhaenyra.

Two dead children and a dispute over the throne: the ingredients for a civil war are stacked up.

House of the Dragon the second season trailer was released in May. It is clear that the war has broken out.

Armies muster, dragons roar, and ships sail on stormy seas. However, the most intense moments in the trailer are seen between those who play the same side. Daemon is obviously having a hard time accepting the ascension of his niece and wife Rhaenyra as queen. There is also an internal struggle on the side of the “greens”, where Queen Alicent is not as bloodthirsty as her son Aemond.

Game of Thrones seen and Martin’s The song of fire and ice – series knows that the days of glory of the Targaryen family are numbered. “The story is connected to the original series, because this is where the disintegration and decline of the family begins,” he said Ryan Condal HS interview 2022.

You fall hard from a height, but what can you fit along the way?

The unpredictable Prince Daemon, played by Matt Smith, is one of the most popular characters in House of the Dragon. Picture: Theo Whiteman

The second season preliminary assessments have been mostly positive. Gave the season four stars Empire says that now the series is “chronologically more focused” and “extends its gaze to the world beyond the court of the high-born Targaryens”.

Four stars for the beginning of the season also gives The Telegraphaccording to which the series has “everything you need for a great time”.

You just wish wars in the real world would end, but in a fantasy series they can be entertaining. I guess so House of the Dragon the second season offers a very good escape this summer.