House of the Dragon' Episode 2

HOUSE of the Dragon is the hit new Game of Thrones prequel which is airing exclusively in the UK on Sky TV. Before the first episode premiered it leaked ...

House of the Dragon episode 1 reportedly appeared on pirate website almost 15 hours before it was shown officially for the first time. Before the first episode premiered it leaked early on illegal torrent and free streaming sites, and anyone thinking of watching episode 2 on illicit platforms need to be aware of the dangers doing so. "Identity theft, fraud and exposure to malware and viruses as a result of piracy are all too real.

The second episode of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel airs Sunday on HBO. Here's when and where to watch it.

[faded in the final two seasons](/culture/entertainment/game-of-thrones-season-8-george-r-r-martin-calls-out-toxic-backlash/), however, as the HBO show was created at a faster pace than Martin could crank out new books. The show is based on Fire and Blood, a book Martin wrote in 2018. Some of the show's shine 29. House of the Dragon airs on HBO at 9 p.m. [Game of Thrones](/culture/entertainment/every-game-of-thrones-season-ranked-best-to-worst/) before it, House of the Dragon will air one episode at a time. Those in UK and Ireland will have to stay up late, as the show airs on Sky UK at 2 a.m. House of the Dragon is set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. The show will hit streaming services around the world at the same time, including [HBO Max](/tags/hbo-max/) in the US. For those who missed out on last week's show, House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel that's all about the Targaryen family. It introduced us to key Targaryens like King Viserys, Princess Rhaenyra and Prince Daemon, laying out the essential elements of a Targaryen combustion. We find out what happens next in episode 2, "The Rogue Prince," which airs Sunday night on HBO.

House of the Dragon returns to HBO and HBO Max with its second episode this Sunday. What time does it arrive in your neck of the woods?

ET on Sunday, August 28 ET on the East Coast of the U.S. House of the Dragon premieres on HBO and HBO Max on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. If you’re one of them, here’s when you can expect it where you live. [House of the Dragon](https://bamsmackpow.com/tv/) is back! What time does it arrive in your neck of the woods?

Despite being leaked online, the first episode drew the biggest no. of viewers across the world, prompting HBO to renew 'House of the Dragon' for a second ...

The leaked episode also seems to be shorter in length as it doesn't include the start and end credits. ‘House of the Dragon’ was officially renewed for the second season this Friday after the record-breaking debut. The second episode of House of the Dragon is currently available on hundreds of pirate download and torrent websites.

The first episode set the wheels in motion for the Targaryen family drama, 200 years before the events depicted in Game of Thrones. The succession plan for King ...

Taking place a couple of centuries before Dany begins her quest to regain the Iron Throne, we see her House in its heyday, but not without a little family drama. So we already know a good bit about what House of the Dragon is all about, thanks to the original text and the Premiere, George R.R. The scene has been set for the newest George R.R.

Episode 2 of HBO's House of the Dragon finds Corlys, Daemon, and Rhaenyra all opposing King Viserys. Plus: a wedding proposal and an oncoming war.

In choosing Hightower, Viserys has begun to alienate both Corlys and Rhaenyra, the series' most powerful forces. Viserys later brings up the prospect of this marriage to his Hand, Hightower, who disapproves, bringing up his own wife’s death as a tactic to dissuade Viserys from marrying out of duty. The theft signals a desire to pass succession to Daemon. At Dragonstone, he is met with a defiant Daemon and his assumed wife Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno). Viserys meets with Lord Corlys and Rhaenys (Eve Best) (“The Queen Who Never Was”). Corlys apologizes for his earlier outburst but then proposes that Viserys marry his daughter to avoid speculation that the crown is unstable. Her suggestion is met with awkward silence and then she is dismissed to choose the new Kingsguard knight, a decision meant to punish her act of naiveté, though only emboldens her. The procedure seems administrative but will prove to be a moment of decisiveness for Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) as she adjusts to her position as next-in-line for the crown; by now it is clear that she wants to be Queen. Lord Corlys counters by highlighting Westeros’ weakness, made evident by the King’s brother, Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), who is now occupying Dragonstone with his army—an act of rebellion bordering on insurrection. Outside the council room, she immediately ignores the advice of Otto Hightower, who suggests choosing a Kingsguard from one of several influential families. The egg Daemon stole was meant for Viserys’ son Baelon, who died and was later mocked by his uncle. Pirates, believed to be supported by the Free Cities—located across western Esos and outside the control of Westeros’ ruling house—are responsible for the hostility.

A new alliance forms, Viserys makes a bold choice, and someone's face is eaten off by a crab.

For now, no one else knows about the king and Alicent (who is roughly 15 years of age, making her a decade or so younger on House of the Dragon than she is in George R.R. The Targaryens and Velaryons share Valyrian ancestry; they possess two of the most dominant forces in all of Westeros (aerial firepower and a sprawling navy, respectively); and the joining of their houses would signal “the crown’s strongest days are ahead.” On paper, it’s an easy match. Over the past half-year, Viserys and Lady Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey) have been meeting in private, a match made in the shadows. Less than a year has passed since the death of Queen Aemma (Sian Brooke), and already, expectations and overtures for Viserys’ next queen are beginning to boil. With Viserys and Corlys unable to find common ground on the matter, newly named heir Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) pitches a plan of her own: flying to the Stepstones on dragon back personally, as a show of force. It’s the handiwork of Craghas Drahar, better known as “the Crabfeeder,” who earned his nickname by…well, you know.

Rhaenyra receives some surprising news, and Viserys likely sets into motion the thing he's been trying to avoid.

I don’t know that there was a way to frame this for Rhaenyra that would have made it more palatable, but I do know that springing it on her in front of the gods and Small Council and everybody, leaving her feeling shocked, deceived and betrayed by the two people closest to her, was the worst way to let her know. The only thing more shameless than his tweaking of the king’s grief, when he learned of the Lady Laena betrothal plan, was his “checkmate, Sea Snake” grin later after Viserys announced that he would marry Alicent instead. Setting aside the ick factor that apparently wasn’t a big deal back then, another possible consideration in Viserys’s choice of Alicent is that he may not have enough time left to wait for a child bride to grow up. The broad, sweeping shots in particular — aerial views of King’s Landing, the backdrops at Dragonstone — have a two-dimensional C.G.I. “This is an absurdity!” the Sea Snake said in response to Viserys’s big reveal, and at first he seemed to have a point. Fortunately, they were able to shoot much of the show on When Otto stared at Rhaenyra with a new respect for her formidableness as she soared off, I’m guessing he was pondering future clashes as much as the present one. Both are more introspective and sensitive than others in the royal court, and they enjoy the escapism of stories and myth. par for the course for “Game of Thrones” nuptials. But “he’s got a strange moral compass of his own,” the actor said. It endangered Viserys’s relationship with the Sea Snake, his most important ally — who wanted the king to choose his preadolescent daughter, Laena (Nova Fouellis-Mose) — and shattered Rhaenyra just when she was starting to feel OK about things. A different princess, her own dreams dashed by men long ago, might coolly describe all this as “the order of things.” But that doesn’t make it any less painful.

Episode 2 of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel is about King Viserys' awkward duty to remarry.

"And so your first duty is to the realm. "You are the king," she says. "I will speak of my brother as I wish," he says while villainously staring over the fire. Because that is the order of things." In order to save his finger, which the maesters have presumably been treating with cauterization (fire), the King's medical help submerge his hand in a bowl full of maggots. "My father named me Princess of Dragonstone," she says as she confronts her uncle, "that is my castle you're living in." "Is that what your father told you to say?" (Valyria is a region in Westeros, for those struggling to keep up with the lore.) In episode 1, we were introduced not only to King Viserys, Prince Daemon and Princess Rhaenyra, but also Hand of the King Otto Hightower, his daughter Alicent, and the "Sea Snake" Lord Corlys Velaryon. "The King's own brother has been allowed to seize Dragonstone and fortify it with an army of his Gold Cloaks. "Sea Snake" Lord Corlys Velaryon has been complaining loudly to the Small Council about "the Triarchy," an alliance between the Free Cities of Myrs, Lys and Tyrosh. [House of the Dragon's premiere episode](/culture/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-recap-the-heirs-of-the-dragon/), King Viserys declared his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, the heir to the throne.

At the end of the strong opening episode to this Game Of Thrones spin-off, everything seemed to be unusually hunky dory for Westeros. Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly ...

After storming out of council when the king announces his plans to marry Alicent, Lord Corlys retreats to his home on Driftmark and invites Daemon to visit. Given that the wedding seems to be news to Mysaria, and that she isn’t pregnant, this is acting out on a royal scale. Smith, meanwhile, is great at the sort of sudden turn that Daemon does, arguing for his rights one minute and flipping over the disputed egg the next, apparently on a whim. Sure, he’s offended his brother, his niece, and his girlfriend, but Daemon knows when to cut his losses and wait for the next chance for mischief. Ifans does a lot with very little in this episode, showing a wariness of Rhaenyra, an iron fist with Alicent, and a delicate sense of what will sway the king. Watch the early scene where he talks of the wisdom of a match between Viserys and Laena, but bemoans the “pain” of marrying for duty that the king must bear. [Wheel Of Time](/articles/the-wheel-of-time-premiere-review-episode-1-3) for example, because it’s one thing to conceive of dragons but another to conceive of sexual equality. She’s the king’s first cousin once removed, so continues the Targaryen tradition of intermarriage; she is also the daughter of his oldest ally, House Velaryon, and marrying her would show that the two old Valyrian houses are as tight as ever. The problem is not simply that he’s marrying Alicent – though marrying your daughter’s bestie is simply not a good look. This seaside carnage is the first sign we’ve seen of the large-scale massacre we’re accustomed to in Westeros; if last week was all about the carefully limited violence of the joust and the all-too-real dangers of childbirth, here the scope widens to whole battlefields of victims at once. That rift is torn wider by the episode’s main plot: the question of the king’s remarriage. A mysterious figure, he fires on Westerosi ships and stakes out his victims on the shore at low tide to be devoured by Westeros’ apparently vicious crustacean inhabitants (I suppose it makes sense that even the crabs are cursed with an insatiable bloodlust there).