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House of the Dragon

August 2024

  • A scene from the House of the Dragon season two finale.

    ‘It feels torturous’: how much longer can House of the Dragon fail to give viewers what they want?

    The increasingly frustrating Game of Thrones prequel had one key selling point: mass dragon battles. Without them, it’s getting harder to justify watching
  • Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen Matthew Needham as Lord Larys Strong

    House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?

    The finale was a 69-minute tease with a payoff that we’ll have to wait two years for. It was almost aggressively anti-climactic
  • Simone Biles; Tom Daley and Noah Williams; Alex Yee; Adam Peaty

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Paris Olympics 2024; Atomic People; Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy; House of the Dragon – review

    After opening ceremony japes, Olympic competitors go higher, stronger, faster. Elsewhere, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors look back, and British comedy
    at its lewdest

July 2024

  • Hot shot … Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) faces down Vermithor in House of the Dragon.

    House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode seven recap – ferocious, explosive TV

  • Is this the start of a serious romance? … Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon.

    House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode six recap – fans are being cheated (despite that steamy snog)

  • Addam and Alyn of Hull (Clinton Liberty and Abubakar Salim) in House of the Dragon

    ‘Every day we’d think … Is this real?’: House of the Dragon’s two newest stars freak out

  • Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) in House of the Dragon

    House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode five recap – here come some newbies to turn up the heat again

  • Can shock deaths in the Game of Thrones universe still really shock us?

  • House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode four recap – dragons rain hell in a truly terrific hour of TV

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: it’s a dog’s life for one down-on-their-luck model

  • ‘Everybody screamed when they saw it!’ The sudden rise in penises on TV

  • House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode three recap – talk about eye-popping TV

June 2024

  • Matt Smith as Daemon and Emma d’Arcy as Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon

    ‘Doom, gloom and a whole load of nothing’: why is House of the Dragon so painfully dull?

  • A thunderous end … Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk.

    House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode two recap – battle of the brothers

  • Dispatches: Undercover A&E – NHS in Crisis

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: months of undercover A&E footage is a deeply troubling watch

  • A closeup of Matt Smith and Emma D’Arcy with their heads side by close

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: House of the Dragon; Euro 2024; The Stormtrooper Scandal; Under the Bridge – review

  • House of the Dragon: episode by episode
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode one recap – almost unbearably tense and bloody

  • TV review
    House of the Dragon season two review – unmissable TV … eventually

  • ‘I’m outacted by a nine-year-old’: Matt Smith on House of the Dragon, chaos and child stars

June 2023

  • Sarah Snook, Jeremy Strong, Nicholas Braun and Kieran Culkin in Succesion.

    ‘The end of peak television’: has the era of prestige TV just ground to a halt?

    Many of the biggest shows are coming to an end, cancellations are through the roof and miniseries are on the rise. Are the days of the all-conquering television drama numbered?
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