Good news for anyone upset that A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms has nearly wrapped its first season: your return trip to Westeros is just a few months away. Yes, it’s time to grab a gaggle of dragons, a swathe of psychos, and dial up the paranoia, because House Of The Dragon is back for Season 3, unfolding the next chapter in the Targaryen Civil War. Across Season 1 and 2, the series established how childhood friends Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower became mortal enemies – and now, their extended family trees are engaging in all-out dragon-on-dragon warfare for the Iron Throne. Spoiler alert: none of this will end happily. Check out the Season 3 trailer:
This season, it looks like we’re up for more dizzying aerial battles, all the fire and blood you could ask for from Daemon Targaryen, and fresh wounds in the Rhaenyra-vs-Alicent face-off – despite the two having a very tense secret heart-to-heart in the back half of Season 2. And entering the fray this time around is James Norton as Ormund Hightower, cousin to Alicent and niece to Otto, set to be another thorn in Rhaenyra’s side as the war presses on.
Hopefully, things should escalate in this third run – since showrunner Ryan Condal has previously expressed that the show would last approximately four seasons. Season 4 is already confirmed. Brace, then, for more tragedy this time around. Plus, it remains to be seen how House Of The Dragon fares now in the wake of author George RR Martin’s very public comments regarding his deteriorating relationship with Condal, and his disagreements with the treatment of the source material. Sounds like the kind of drama worthy of Westeros itself.
We’ll witness the next steps in the ‘Dance of the Dragons’ when House Of The Dragon Season 3 comes to HBO Max in June. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Dunk & Egg.
