House of the Dragon season 2

2022 - 10 - 24

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Where does House Of The Dragon go in season two? (The A.V. Club)

Now that season one is over, let's look ahead at the coming war for the Iron Throne and what else we might see in the next season of House Of The Dragon.

[an interview with The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/house-of-the-dragon-matt-smith-daemon-targaryen-crush-1235242470/), writer and executive producer Sara Hess said the next season will explore the relationship between Rhaenyra and Daemon more fully. [a more even pace](https://deadline.com/2022/10/house-of-the-dragon-ryan-condal-promises-more-war-and-humour-matt-smith-season-two-1235152764/) in season two, one more familiar to Game Of Thrones fans. If they follow a schedule similar to this year, we could be seeing dragons taking flight again on our screens before the end of 2023. Club set up two different approaches for Game Of Thrones when it was on the air—one for [experts](https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/game-of-thrones-experts) and one for [newbies](https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/game-of-thrones-newbies). “And right now, we’re writing season two and figuring out, what is the nature of his relationship with Rhaenyra? [a second season](https://www.avclub.com/hbo-renews-house-of-the-dragon-for-season-2-1849461556) was in store since August, although it was always a pretty safe bet that HBO wasn’t going to spend all this money capitalizing on the popularity of Game Of Thrones only call it quits after to air one season. As for the cast, we obviously won’t be seeing Elliot Grihault as Luke again (we’re still not over it), but the rest of the older players will be sticking around, including Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon II, Ewan Mitchell as Aemond Targaryen, Harry Collett as Jace, Bethany Antonia as Baela, and Phoebe Campbell as Rhaena. Although he hasn’t given an official reason for his departure, co-showrunner Ryan Condal [implied in an interview](https://www.avclub.com/house-of-the-dragon-ryan-condal-miguel-sapochnik-exit-1849580206) that he was just burnt out on the franchise. The kingsguard has been split as well, with three going to Rhaenyra and three sticking with Aegon II. Meanwhile, the Blacks still have a legitimate claim to the throne, plus a Velaryon fleet of ships, at least six dragons left (minus poor Arrax), and one pissed off queen. Rhaenyra’s restraint has hit its limit, and Daemon isn’t the forgiving type. Episodes nine and ten this season presented the two opposite sides as they marshaled their supporters.

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House of the Dragon season 2 potential release date, cast, plot ... (digitalspy.com)

Baela and Rhaena will likely see their roles fleshed out as they become embroiled in the upcoming war. tom glynncarney, olivia cooke, fabien frankel, house of ...

We have danced in the preamble of the civil war to come, with House of the Dragon doing a phenomenal job laying the groundwork with detailed backstories. Game of Thrones [seasons 1-8](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Thrones-Seasons-1-8-Complete/dp/B07TD6BQHR/) are also available on DVD and Blu-ray. Lucerys' death, however, is about to blow that all out of the water as Rhaenyra will likely seek immediate recompense for her son's callous death. We'll keep our eyes peeled for news and report back quicker than a whispering spider in the Red Keep. [House of the Dragon](https://www.digitalspy.com/house-of-the-dragon/) was a hard one to beat: Rhaenys bursting out from under the flagstones on the back of her dragon? Schemers are always at work and alliances change at the drop of a betrothal. We know you can't wait for season two, so without further delay here's everything we know about House of the Dragon season two. Houses Tully, Arryn, Stark, Baratheon and Lannister will have made their allegiances but how they will play out is yet to be decided. Queen Alicent will no doubt continue to bar her way, which means the return of Olivia Cooke. He seems to have been bumped off the family tree in the TV adaptation. Rhys Ifans and Fabien Cole will return as Otto Hightower and Ser Criston Cole respectively in support of Aegon and Alicent. When will the dragons get their next excursion?

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House of the Dragon Season 2 Will Finally Address Biggest Fan ... (Den of Geek)

Despite some unconventional choices, including a mid-season time jump that saw series leads Milly Alcock and Emily Carey replaced by Emma D'Arcy and Olivia ...

However, shows such as [Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) on Disney+ and [The Rings of Power](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-rings-of-power) on Amazon have managed to look cinematic on TV without darkening the screen. [House of the Dragon](https://www.denofgeek.com/house-of-the-dragon/). Condon himself invoked Star Wars when talking about another fan issue – the popularity of Matt Smith’s character Daemon Targaryen. [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/house-of-the-dragon-finale-showrunner-interview-1235246992/), “The visual continuity of the show is something we will look at.” As the phrase “visual continuity” suggests, complaints about the franchise’s darkness are nothing new. “For TV, you’re releasing it onto a million different television screens and different setups and calibrations all over the planet,” Condon elaborated. Martin, but it comes after a largely disappointing final season of HBO’s [Game of Thrones](https://www.denofgeek.com/game-of-thrones/).

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'House of the Dragon' Season 2: Ryan Condal Shares What Fans ... (Collider.com)

The series is now available to stream in full on HBO Max. house-of-the-dragon-olivia-cooke-emma-d' Image ...

“The wonder of going into season two – for any show, but for this one in particular – is we have such an embarrassment of riches in terms of the great cast that we put together,” he said. These are one of the things that you learn in the making of a show – you take that knowledge into account when making season two and say, “How can we do better?” The feedback was certainly heard,” the showrunner said. And we want the show to be a great viewing experience for everybody." First, the elephant in the room, when quizzed about the death of Lucerys, Condal remarks that “Aemond is definitely not blameless” but that the young prince had been bullied as a kid. I intend to put all those lessons into use on season 2.” The showrunner expanded on the excitement of going into a new season, its peak being the cast of the show. However, her stance will certainly be shifted [with the dragon dance](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-lucerys-death-aemond-episode-10-ending-explained/) over Storm’s End between princes Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Lucerys (Elliot Grihault), which resulted in Aemond’s bigger dragon Vhagar ripping into the smaller Arrax and its rider, Lucerys.

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House of the Dragon Is Getting a Second Season of Fire, Blood, and ... (Vulture)

'House of the Dragon,' the 'Game of Thrones' prequel based on 'Fire & Blood,' was renewed for a second season by HBO following record-breaking viewership of ...

It’s just the nature of this thing; in season two, it really opens up the world in a big way and the sprawl grows quite a bit.” Sounds House of the Dragon is becoming Mansion of the Dragon. [“the largest audience for any new original series in HBO history](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-ratings-record.html),” the [Game of Thrones](https://www.vulture.com/article/every-game-of-thrones-season-recapped-and-explained.html) prequel series [House of the Dragon](https://www.vulture.com/tv/house-of-the-dragon/) has been renewed for a second season. “I’m really interested in picking up with all of those characters that we spent all of this time introducing, particularly Rhaenyra’s and Alicent’s families, and seeing what happens now that we’ve flipped the chessboard over and spilled the pieces on the ground.” Okay, metaphor! ](https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/was-the-game-of-thrones-finale-really-that-bad.html)“We are beyond proud of what the entire House of the Dragon team has accomplished with season one,” said Francesca Orsi, the executive VP of HBO Programming in a press release. “They’re not all in the same place, but this is still very much a story of Alicent and Rhaenyra and their families pitted against each other. The dragon riders are coming back with a fire in their bellies.

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'House of the Dragon' season 2 won't have time jumps, says Ryan ... (INSIDER)

Ryan Condal admitted he was initially afraid of the time jump recasting in an interview with Deadline.

You accepted that they were the same characters. And sure enough, that's what they did." Condal continued: "They went from Claire Foy and Matt Smith to Tobias Menzies and Olivia Colman. It scared the hell out of HBO, too," the showrunner said. "It did scare the hell outta me. "We tell the story in real time from here forward.

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House of the Dragon Showrunner Confirms the Time Jumps Have ... (TVLine)

Episode 6, in particular, delivered a 10-year leap forward in which actresses Milly Alcock (as Rhaenyra Targaryen) and Emily Carey (as Alicent Hightower) were ...

And when you’re done: Hear what showrunner Miguel Sapochnik and series star Emma D’Arcy had to say about the finale’s major death, learn what won’t happen in Season 2 and allow Steve Toussaint (aka Lord Corlys) to tell you about [a big scene that was cut from Episode 8](https://tvline.com/2022/10/24/house-of-the-dragon-finale-season-1-episode-10-corlys-steve-toussaint-interview/). TVLine readers gave the episode an average grade of “A-“; (The swift pace has frequently drawn criticism — including from us, in our

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Everything we know so far about House Of The Dragon season 2 (Stylist Magazine)

House Of The Dragon: Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy as Prince Daemon and Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. Learning of her stepmother's complete betrayal and public ...

So, it will be difficult for the production to film and VFX another season by the end of 2023, meaning that a 2024 return could be more likely. Condal explained that the writers will seek to introduce “natural pathways into moments of levity” in the drama. There’s a million and one questions circulating after that finale so read on for what we know about House Of The Dragon season two so far. Condal also surprisingly hinted at the possibility of some lighthearted moments in the new series too. It’s a methodical approach, but in the final scenes, Daemon delivers the tragic news of her son’s death and with it, we just know that House Of The Dragon series two is going to be grittier and bloodier than this premiere season. Speaking to The Times, But what we do know is that Lucerys’ death will likely spark a war-waging fire in Rhaenyra and that she and Daemon will exact bloody revenge upon King’s Landing and the Hightowers. As I do so, though, I am deeply comforted to know that Alan [Taylor] will be joining the series. “He’s someone I’ve known and respected for a long time, and I believe this precious series could not be in safer hands. It’s based on The Dying Of The Dragons, a novella found in George RR Martin’s 2018 work Fire & Blood. “But you have to understand these people’s complexities before they’re thrown into war. We knew it was coming but in the finale’s closing moments we see a darker new side to Princess Rhaenyra that will carry us into the now-confirmed second season.

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House of the Dragon finale review: Who started the war and Dance ... (BT TV)

It was a desperately sad episode for Rhaenyra and Daemon as they lost a child in a traumatic childbirth sequence and Lucerys was murdered by Vhagar after being ...

The one hitch for the Greens and the cunning Hightowers? His fleet and control of the Narrow Sea - along with his wife Rhaenys' (Eve Best) dragon power - is a serious coup in the battle for the Iron Throne. Daemon soothed Vermithor with High Valyrian singing and attempted to win the creature onto his side. Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Vhagar’s hunting down of Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) has shifted House of the Dragon into a full-blown war. A final trump card for Team Black was the recovery of the Sea Snake, Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) . However, the Black Queen and her husband do still have plenty of allies.

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House of the Dragon ending explained - How SPOILER's death sets ... (digitalspy.com)

If the penultimate episode was all about Alicent's determination to see Aegon bloodlessly seated upon the Iron Throne then the finale sees Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) ...

Just as Lucerys breaks free and reaches a clearing above the storm, we see the great presence of Vhagar burst from the clouds. He orders his men to escort Lucerys safely back to his dragon and that could have been the matter… Aemond pursues Lucerys and Arrax through a wildly raging thunderstorm on the back of Vhagar. He is dismissed but as Lucerys makes to leave Aemond (the crazy) demands an eye for an eye (it seems claiming Vhagar wasn't a fair enough trade after all). The brothers depart from their mother and there is a sad air of foreboding, which thickens as Lucerys lands at Storm's End. In order to garner enough swords to surround King's Landing the Queen will need the support of Houses Arryn, Stark and Baratheon. [House of the Dragon](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a41577248/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-release-date/) season one came to a bone-crunching, squelching end. Rhaenys then hammers home the point that while the men plot and scheme and edge her towards war, Rhaenyra is methodical and conscientious in her decision making. [House of the Dragon](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a41577248/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-release-date/) episode 10 spoilers below. Despite winning the battle on the Stepstones once again, he seems tired by the loss of his children and the battles fought. After learning the news of her father's death and the Hightowers' betrayal from a returning Rhaenys (Eve Best), she goes into early labour. This she factors in along with her intent to put the realm above her anger and ahead of her desire to show strength and force.

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'House of the Dragon' Season 2 Will Begin Filming in Early 2023 (Collider.com)

House of the Dragon co-creator and executive producer, Ryan Condal, has revealed Season 2 will begin filming early next year.

All episodes of Season 1 of House of the Dragon are now streaming on HBO Max. " He also noted that "...those will continue to be the home bases for the show." Whether a 2023 release date is possible is still not known; however, viewers can rest assured that the production team is hard at work on creating the second season. However, a war is, in fact, on the horizon for Westeros. Of the second season's expanding world Condal noted that "[j]ust as the original Game of Thrones grew in scope and expanse as it went, so, too, will ours." However, he also noted that there will remain several key settings that will ground the series, noting that the production has "...lived a good bit in three different worlds through this show: King’s Landing, Dragonstone and Driftmark.

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10 Questions <i>House of the Dragon</i> Season 2 Needs to Answer (TIME)

The Dance of Dragons has begun. Rhaenyra Targaryen, the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, briefly considered bending the knee to her half-brother King Aegon ...

Of all the families mentioned in the episode, we have a special place in our hearts for the Starks. House of the Dragon has been playing fast and loose with the children’s ages throughout the series, and at this point it’s unclear who is and isn’t considered a grown-up ready to fight. Perhaps he interprets Viserys keeping the secret of the dream from him as a signal that Viserys never trusted Daemon or considered Daemon a possible heir to the throne. In the Season 1 finale, he tells Rhaenyra that Team Black has more dragons than Team Green. He tells her that Aegon the Conquerer subjugated the people of Westeros in part because he had a dream a Targaryen would need to sit on the Iron Throne when a great winter (i.e. And if her children continue to die, is Rhaenyra doomed to the same fate that Daenerys suffered in [Game of Thrones?](https://time.com/6206772/house-of-the-dragon-connects-game-of-thrones/) But in the final episode, we see a fissure between the Queen and her partner. In both cases, the dream serves largely as a plot device to confuse Alicent into believing her son ought to be crowned king and angering Daemon who never learned the secret prophesy from his brother. The Season 1 finale was named “The Black Queen,” and it seems that Rhaenyra is finally ready to take on that title. Early in the season, Viserys warned Rhaenyra that “the idea that we control the dragons is an illusion. Again, this seems largely to be choice on the part of the writers to complicate the character rather than a plot-driven decision. But the death of Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys at the hands of Aegon’s brother Aemond—mistake or not—enraged Rhaenyra and kicked off a civil war that will play out over several seasons.

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What Might 'House of the Dragon' Season 2 Look Like Based on ... (Collider.com)

The Dance of the Dragons that Martin is referring to is the war of succession between Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Rhaenyra Targaryen told in the six ...

He wins an emotional victory for Rhaenyra by taking back the home of [the late Ser Harwin Strong](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-strong-larys-harwin-lyonel-explained/), that on his death was passed to his younger brother [Larys Strong](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-larys-strong-game-of-thrones-littlefinger/), and thus the Greens. As it was [the loss of his own eye](https://collider.com/is-alicent-right-eye-for-an-eye-house-of-the-dragon/) many years before that sent Aemond chasing after his nephew and unintentionally kicked off the deaths of so many. This in turn leads to an attempt for retaliation from the Greens which will lead to the duel between brothers and twins Rhaenyra's heir, Prince Jacaerys Targaryen (Harry Collett) will once again prove his worth as a future King of the Seven Kingdoms by flying to the Eyrie, and Winterfell (he also flies to Sisterton and White Harbor in the book) on his dragon Vermax and securing the loyalty of these houses for his mother. [Rhaenyra's King-consort](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-valyrian-weddings-explained/) makes his way to the Riverlands on the back of his blood-red dragon Caraxes to claim Harrenhal castle in the name of his wife. Siding with the Blacks are House Arryn of the Eyrie, House Frey of the Crossing, House Greyjoy of the Iron Islands, House Tarly of Horn Hill, House Stark of Winterfell, and [House Velaryon of Driftmark](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-velaryon-explained/) - with Lord Corlys to be named Hand of the Queen. In Fire and Blood they make a big move to remedy this, and we should get to see this early in Season 2. [House Hightower](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-hightower-explained/) of Old Town, House Baratheon of Storm's End, House Lannister of Casterly Rock, and what remains of House Strong. Season 1 of House of the Dragon served mostly as an introduction to this by featuring the struggles that both King Jaehaerys I (Michael Carter) and Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) faced to choose their heirs within the previous chapter of Fire and Blood titled "Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession." The war is going to move from the shoring up of alliances to a ruthless bloodbath, and no one will come out of it unscathed. If Season 1 did the work of introducing audiences to the world, the characters, and the issues that they face then that should allow Season 2 to tell a far more detailed and in-depth story. So what can we look forward to seeing in House of the Dragon Season 2?

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'House of the Dragon' ended on the brink of war. What could Season ... (The Washington Post)

The "House of the Dragon" finale featured dragon-on-dragon chase scenes, births and deaths, but there are already questions that need to be answered in ...

All “House of the Dragon” needed was a chance to spread its wings and prepare for next season’s fiery shock and awe. [Season 1 finale](https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/10/24/house-dragon-recap-season-finale/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) of HBO’s massive hit “House of the Dragon,” didn’t lack for ambition. As a TV show of the moment, “Dragon” can, for instance, include brutally depicted birth scenes that are clearly meant as commentary on the country’s reproductive rights battlefront while foregrounding its female protagonists. Aegon, the newly crowned King, has real Joffrey-from-“Game of Thrones” energy. But it’s fairly fitting because “House of the Dragon,” which is much more limited in scope than its predecessor, “Game of Thrones,” has been very talky in its first outing. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” is completed and will guide the

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Everything we know about 'House of the Dragon' Season 2 (Mashable)

A man with silver blonde hair places a gold crown on the head of a woman. All hail the Black Queen! Credit: Ollie Upton/HBO. If you absolutely ...

They attack the Red Keep and force Queen Helaena (Phia Saban) to choose which of her sons they will kill. On the one hand, we get the Starks back. [House of the Dragon](https://mashable.com/category/game-of-thrones). On the other, we get more traumatic child murder. I'll be going full spoilers here, so if you don't want to know the future of the Dance of the Dragons, turn away now. (If you're having any doubts about spoilers, now's definitely the time to turn back.) Using his connections to the underbelly of King's Landing, Daemon enlists the help of two unsavory characters known only as Blood and Cheese. Rhaenyra and Daemon (Matt Smith) will retaliate against Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her family in a big way. The bad news? The good news? Martin's Fire & Blood](https://mashable.com/article/house-of-the-dragon-book-vs-show), we have a few predictions as to the chaos coming our way. But with that epic cliffhanger comes the horrifying realization that we have to wait for Season 2 to find out what will happen next. We'll just have to sit tight and await any casting or production announcements HBO will send our way until then.

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