House of the Dragon Scores The Most-Watched Premiere Episode This Year

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HBO Releases Official Trailer And Character Posters For 'House Of The Dragon'

The first episode of the long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, premiered on August 21 on HBO and it’s currently streaming on HBOMax. Only one episode in, and the newest HBO hit series is already setting up the records.

According to Samba TV, the premiere episode was watched by 2.6 million households in the US only, which makes it the most-watched premiere cable or streaming premiere in 2022. House of the Dragon has easily beaten the premiere episode of Stranger Things 4, which was watched by 1.2 million US households.

After the premiere episode dropped on HBOMax, the streamer faced a crash because of millions of viewers who wanted to experience what the newest Game of Thrones has to offer firsthand. So far, the series received very positive reviews and reactions, and it seems like HBO has another global hit on its hands. Let’s just hope they have learned something from Game of Thrones’ last season and they won’t make the same mistake again.

Set 172 years before the events of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is following the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, whose head King Viserys I Targaryen, the current ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, named his daughter Rhaenyra as his heir instead of his brother Daemon, who was the heir presumptive to the Iron Throne.

The series is starring Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans. Additional cast includes Milly Alcock, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Emily Carey, Harry Collett, Ryan Corr, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Wil Johnson, John Macmillan, Graham McTavish, Ewan Mitchell, Theo Nate, Matthew Needham, Bill Paterson, Phia Saban, Gavin Spokes, Savannah Steyn.

The author of A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin serves as the co-creator and the executive producer of the series. The premiere episode of House of the Dragon 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.