Will House of the Dragon catch fire like Game of Thrones?

As the prequel returns for a second series, showrunner Ryan Condal talks about ‘making it feel different in a good way’

How do you follow up a show that defined a decade? Game of Thrones was the essential series of the 2010s, a rare return to appointment television in the age of asynchronous streaming and the first time fantasy on TV was grown-up enough to attract a broad mainstream audience. It won 59 Emmys — a new record for a drama — and was drawing in more than 44mn viewers per episode by its conclusion. Its successor, House of the Dragon, has some big iron boots to fill.

It makes it feel different in a good way from Game of Thrones.” For a viewer, this narrowed focus is both a blessing and a curse. It has made for richly compelling characters such as queens Rhaenyra and Alicent , two mothers vying for power in a male-dominated world.

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