While the pacing suffers, House of the Dragon remains a wildly compelling show about how power shapes us with a thrilling second season.
Rhaenyra’s faith in her own divine right is reignited in the fiery seventh episode of "House of the Dragon" Season 2.
Leadership is a complicated thing to get a handle on and this dance of trying to figure out who is the best person for the job is a dominant theme in all of A Song of Ice Fire.
In "Regent," House of the Dragon's second season reshuffles the board after a major death in its previous episode.
In the fourth episode of House of the Dragon Season 2, the Targaryen Civil War kicks off to carnage and tragedy.
There's a slowly morphing acceptance here that the main players are trying too hard to control things that spun out of control long ago.
"Rhaenyra the Cruel": Building loyalty through mercy versus cruelty with those who have less power than you—a lesson worth learning.
Season 2 of House of the Dragon kicks off with a haunting start, exploring the consequences of Season 1's finale through strong adaptation.
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – Niccolo Machiavelli House of the Dragon ends with a tragedy that compels itself through a feeling of inevitability. Once Alicent (Olivia […]
Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) enjoys an improved turn of character.
Tom of Finland director Dome Karukoski returns with another biopic about an influential creative mind, this time turning his sights to famed Lord of the Rings writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Does the film do justice to the man or is it more focused on his legendary work?