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Positive:
80
Mixed:
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Critic Reviews
Aug 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
"House" often does work well as straight history. It's that fantasy part that's missing. Other than dragons, there's little magic or mystery in this corner of Westeros — or that epic sense of wonder that made "Thrones" so thrilling through the first seven seasons. At least those dragons are fun.
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The PlaylistJun 22, 2026
Season 3 Review:
It is essentially a historical retelling of fictional events, made for a crowd of geek obsessives who know the granular details that fill in the larger sandbox in which the war between Alicent and Rhaenyra’s loyalists is fought. .... There’s a sense of cloudiness about the bits and pieces of each of the show’s plotlines–even in its third season, when clarity should be at its sharpest.
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The TimesJun 15, 2026
Season 3 Review:
It tries its best, even giving Rhaenyra a speech about having the “weak and feeble body of a woman”, which borrows almost word for word from Elizabeth I’s famous address at Tilbury before the Spanish Armada arrived. But this points to an essential difficulty I have with this show: all too often it feels so old hat, so reheated and, well, so, so boring.
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Jun 17, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The best I could muster at the end of their sweaty, bloody passion play was, "Ouch." Again: the subpar writing deserves the blame for that, not the performers. .... We may find that the back half of this one finds ways to remedy the diluted storytelling leaving us cold. The fourth episode fuels that hope even as the action within drains whatever dregs of assurances are left for the realm.
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The Daily BeastAug 19, 2022
Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
House of the Dragon’s rote mimicry of its predecessor undermines character development and dampens any sparks generated by its ensemble, and literally, due to a lack of sustained time with the titular creatures. ... The problem is not just that the dragons here feel less physically tangible than they did before or that they lack definitive personalities. It’s that House of the Dragon takes them for granted, just as it does our attention.
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Aug 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It ultimately is more interested in fan service—offering up more dragons, more gore, more surprise murders, a more expensive historical re-enactment—than it is in developing scenes that ring true. ... It’s as hollow and brittle as the massive scale model of the kingdom that Viserys takes pride in building.
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