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Positive:
80
Mixed:
28
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sometimes the series overreaches in its effort to be bloodier, sexier, more risqué. ... But it is, for the most part, just fine to be back in Martin’s robust and intriguing history, an intricate tangle of noble houses, doomed knights, scheming strivers, and hopeless dopes.
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Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There’s much to praise in this show’s telling a new story that still chimes familiar themes, a succession drama that’s of Westeros but not reheated. ... But the show can, at times, be more easily admired than watched. ... Scenes tend toward the short and pointedly written, giving us much data but only the general contours of characters.
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Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[The series makers] reliance on sadism, cruelty and occasional disemboweling suggests either an adolescent impulse to push the violence as far as it will go or an understanding that what bonds the "Game of Thrones" community is a shared stomach for edgy mayhem. ... Only the first six episodes were made available for review, but those chapters establish a very convincing world and its people.
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Jun 14, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Those who happen to like how “House of the Dragon” challenges some of the more irritating aspects of “Game of Thrones” will probably enjoy this new season, which promises more of the same, along with twists and dragons aplenty. (“House of the Dragon” has been also renewed for a third season.) For those who prefer the latter for its vast network, menacing speeches and subterfuge, this world will probably continue to feel a little impoverished.
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Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The most thrilling or unsettling surprises of the original show were rooted in character, and so it is with the new series. It’s too bad “House of the Dragon” takes such a long time to define and shade the Targaryens and those in their orbit. But once it’s done, their viciousness gleams all the more against the darkness.
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