House Of The Dragon halftime report: How's the show going so far?
There’s only so much I can take of suspicious eyes darting around a room, and this episode gave me as much of that as I’ll need for the foreseeable future. I think it’s been kind of fun not really knowing who to root for or why, but this episode also went all in on everybody having secret, inscrutable motivations that don’t make sense to anyone but themselves.
This week was certainly no exception. In the first two scenes, the most lively character we’ve seen yet was cruelly mowed down by her estranged husband so that he can, hopefully, marry his niece, then we cut to Viserys who is puking and coughing blood into a napkin. As that washed over me, I prepared for an hour of bad feelings, and the show certainly delivered. The shots of Joffrey’s tenderized face were the cherry on top. Do I want to keep making appointments with Dr.
Having said all that, I’m here for Alicent coming into her own and would bemoan the loss of Emily Carey’s shrewd performance if the sure-to-be-brilliant Olivia Cooke weren’t taking over. That slow zoom as it dawns on Alicent that Rhaenyra lied, her father was right, and she has to decide how to survive this succession drama was fantastic.The first five episodes were really about setting the table for the rest of the series, and this episode completes that arc in spectacular fashion.
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