House of the Dragon: HBO Reveals A Special Inside Look Of The Premiere Episode

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HBO’s newest hit series House of the Dragon is currently streaming its first episode on HBOMax. Judging from the first reactions and reviews, another global phenomenon is here for us, and we will probably watch and talk about this series for a long long time to come.

First reports are already saying that HBOMax already crashed when a lot of people wanted to experience the newest HBO hit first-hand, and as the fans are gathering their reactions for the first episode, HBO revealed a special 7-minute inside look of the first episode, which you can check down below:

“Ryan Condal, Miguel Sapochnik, and more discuss why they opened the episode with the Great Council, the juxtaposition between the tournament and Queen Aemma’s birthing sequence, and the motivation behind Viserys choosing Rhaenyra as heir.” — HBO

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Ryan Condal, who co-created the series with the author George R.R. Martin, and Miguel Sapochnik who directed the first episode and serves as the co-showrunner with Condal, opened up about the beginning of the series and how it sets up all the future events. The first season will consist of 10 episodes, and we can already assume it’s a matter of time before HBO officially greenlights the second season.

House of the Dragon is the prequel series set 172 before the events of the original Game of Thrones series. The series is focused on the House Targaryen during the time when their dynasty ruled the Seven Kingdoms. King Viserys I Targaryen is the current king at the beginning of the series, and he decides to name his daughter Rhaenyra his heir instead of his brother Daemon, who was initially heir presumptive to the Iron Throne. This will cause the Civil War in the family, because only one person can sit on the throne, and we can’t wait to see how will that resolve.

House of the Dragon is starring Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Fabien Frankel, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, and Graham McTavish. The first episode of the series is now streaming on HBOMax.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.