House of the Dragon Remains the Fantasy Equivalent of Reality TV in Largely Entertaining Second Season

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House of the Dragon Remains the Fantasy Equivalent of Reality TV in Largely Entertaining Second Season
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House of the Dragon still doesn't reach the highs of its parent series, but remains scandalizing and mostly entertaining in its second season.

nosedived spectacularly in a collection of baffling story choices that brought a multi-year cultural event to its knees. But even if this conclusion ruffled many feathers, the franchise was simply too lucrative for HBO to pass up. For those not entirely burned by the fiasco, in 2022, we received, the first of many planned spinoffs set in the land of Westeros and beyond. While the series, co-created by Ryan Condal and George R.R.

Thankfully, even during some of these dry spells, there’s still plenty to ogle at because, much like the previous season, there are plenty of tasteless turns in the form of wanton sex and violence . The series is just as trashy and shocking as ever, further magnifying’ taboos, but thankfully, it puts its most toxic relationships on the back burner in its second season.

Flanking these heroines are a procession of unlikable doofuses who are fun to hate, such as the woefully incompetent Aegon, disaster master Daemon , who somehow ups his previous screw-ups, or a-hole extraordinaire Ser Criston Cole . Although the cast can sometimes feel a little too big for its own good, the subdued pace lets us fully marinate in these people’s drives, ambitions, and deceptions.

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