‘The House of the Dragon’ has been one of the most anticipated series of the last decade. The spin-off of ‘Game of Thrones’ has been one of the fictions that most hype has generated among the public of fantasy fictions. In its first season, released in August 2022, it managed to attract 29 million viewers per episode. The second season will arrive on Max on June 17.
The series is a prequel to the famous ‘Game of Thrones’, one of the most popular and acclaimed series in the history of television, which has been seen by more than 500 million people around the world, which began with an average from 9.3 million viewers in the first season to reaching 32.8 million in the last.
‘House of the Dragon’ is set 200 years before the events of ‘Game of Thrones’ and tells the story of House Targaryen and the civil war fighting for control of the Iron Throne. The dispute between Rhaenyra and Aegon for the right to the throne after the death of his father, King Viserys.
Rhaenyra fights to be queen and against those who say that a woman cannot reign, wanting to be the first queen of Westeros. She represents the Black side. They face the Greens, Aegon, who at first does not want to be king and is sponsored by his sister, Alicent, and his father, Otto Hightower, although his younger brother Aemond is becoming more and more ambitious.
The conflict develops as a greater threat looms over Westeros, while the main families of Westeros are waiting to destroy each other and look the other way, while a prophesied threat gains more and more strength to destroy the living, the Walkers. Whites.
In this second season, new houses in Westeros will be known, since Rhaenyra sent her children as emissaries to get allies in other houses to face both the threat of the White Walkers and the Hightower.
The second season will consist of eight episodes that promise to be action-packed, with more death, blood, fire and dragons and not so much politics. To be more similar, both in substance and form, to ‘Game of Thrones’.
