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.

Have you seen our full review of the House of the Dragon premiere just yet? Take a look below, as it's a perfect way to prepare for tonight. Once you watch, be ...

[news yesterday](https://cartermatt.com/496725/house-of-the-dragon-season-1-episode-2-the-rogue-prince-tease/), tonight’s episode carries with it the title of “The Rogue Prince,” which in our mind strongly suggests that Daemon Targeryan (Matt Smith) is going to be a significant focus of the story. Be sure to share right now in the comments! There’s always going to be that school of thought that you can never have too much of a good thing, and this is a show that brought a LOT of awesome stuff to the table.

As the last scene sees Daemon stealing one of the 10 adult dragons and leaving King's Landing with his mistress, we can expect a fiery fight for the Iron Throne ...

[Binge](https://goto.binge.com.au/c/338476/767630/11099?subId1=whathifi-gb-1055382573939390600&sharedId=whathifi-gb&u=https%3A%2F%2Fbinge.com.au%2F) (opens in new tab) is the streaming service to sign up to in Australia to watch House Of The Dragon episode 2 and the rest of the series. (Apple users can use a UK phone number but should head to the [Apple ID website](https://apple.sjv.io/c/221109/473657/7613?subId1=whathifi-gb-1237776840396845800&sharedId=whathifi-gb&u=https%3A%2F%2Fappleid.apple.com%2Faccount) (opens in new tab) to sign up, rather than using an app on their device). It's $17.99/month for the HD version (or $12.99 for SD) but there's a there's a 7-day free trial to enjoy before you need to pay to continue. [HBO Max](https://www.whathifi.com/features/hbo-max-roku-fire-tv-stick-free-trial-and-how-to-watch-from-abroad-all-explained) (US) [HBO Max](https://www.whathifi.com/features/hbo-max-roku-fire-tv-stick-free-trial-and-how-to-watch-from-abroad-all-explained) on your browser or device and enjoy watching House Of The Dragon episode 2 online. It's $19.99 per month and the show airs at 9pm ET/PT each Sunday, just like in the States. There's 24/7 customer support and three months free when you sign-up You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. Open up the VPN app and choose the location of the service you wish to access. There's just one problem to solve: his line of succession. House Of The Dragon episode 2 arrives today with the familiar bloodshed and family feuds now well under in Westeros. Suffice to saw that you can watch The Rogue Prince, episode 2 House Of The Dragon, on HBO Max in the States and on Sky and Now in the UK.

With no heir apparent, his decision puts in motion the cataclysmic events of the Targaryen civil war. Episode 2 looks likely to focus on Prince Daemon, which is ...

[start again on our homepage](https://www.techradar.com). Please try searching our site or The page you're looking for has either been moved or removed from the site.

The Game of Thrones franchise finally returned to screens last weekend, with HBO's debut of prequel series House of the Dragon. Set about 200 years before ...

Given the familial connection and the power of his name, however, Corlys should be considered the safer of the two. Remember, the face of the entire series was killed before the end of the first season. Set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon follows the reign of King Viserys Targaryen, and what will eventually become the end of an era of peace in Westeros.

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).

House Of The Dragon dives deeper into the court intrigue and scheming that will set the stage for civil war to come in HBO's Game Of Thrones prequel.

“Some Myrish prince is feeding sailors to the crabs,” Daemon replies, and we see the prince in question carrying out his bloody business, hammering men into posts as they scream, crabs racing across the sand. Lord Strong, a man who seems to be a very loyal and pragmatic man, doesn’t outright say he’s against the union, but it’s clear that he thinks it’s a mistake. Sure, Martin always writes “grey” morality and complicated characters, but in Thrones there lots of characters you really wanted to see emerge victorious. She tells him that she came to him “to be liberated.” “From what?” he asks. Only Hightower opposes the union, though he minces words and beats around bushes, telling the king that he also dearly loved “mine own lady wife” and that he cannot comprehend how terribly difficult it would be to be pressured into remarrying so soon. The proud Sea Snake at the end of his rope. Rhaenyra herself, who observes the king and the young girl walking together, also approves, telling her father that she understands his obligation to remarry. Lord Corlys and his wife Rhaenys have offered their own daughter’s hand in marriage to the king. He looks down and then across at Hightower and the soldiers. It seemed clear that Hightower’s motives were that of an overly ambitious man with the skill to play his liege like a fiddle. “I want the same for my child.” Daemon and his men draw their swords; the king’s men draw their own, and then the red dragon, Caraxes, appears, looming over the scene menacingly.

In the second episode of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' prequel, Daemon makes a play, Rhaenyra wins the day, and Viserys gets the final say.

You may click on “Your Choices” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. If you click “Agree and Continue” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers.

'House of the Dragon' Season 1, Episode 2 recap: Find out what happens in the second installment of the 'Game of Thrones' prequel.

She ignores the Hand’s order to go home, then marches up to Daemon and — in High Valyrian — demands that he vacate Dragonstone, which is (on paper, at least) hers. He fills Daemon in on how Viserys doesn’t want to stop the Crab Feeder, but that stepping into that fight is how Daemon can show his power. Rhaenys brings up the point that the realm had the chance to have a queen back in the day, and passed. And then the dragon that Daemon and Mysaria rode at the end of the premiere appears behind him, causing Otto to have his men sheath their weapons. Corlys reasons that the family that has dragons and the family that has the world’s largest fleet should be “bound in blood,” which would be a sign to everyone that the crown hasn’t been weakened by recent events. (Ha!) There’s a lot of shouting about treason and whores, then Daemon dares Otto and his men to come and take the egg. The king’s hand (not to be confused with the hand of the king) is MUCH worse since he cut it in the premiere, and the maesters resort to submerging the appendage in a tray of maggots in order to try to save his pinky finger (which is blackened with decay). (Side note: I know we saw her in the royal box at the joust, but my brain was like, “Surely Corlys and Rhaenys have another daughter who’s, I don’t know, past puberty?” THEY DO NOT.) To his credit, the king is almost as uneasy with the whole thing as I am. The girls are in the sept, and Alicent suggests that Rhaenyra light a candle and pray for her mother, as a way to feel closer to her. Alicent quietly says that when she wants to talk with Otto, she has the make the effort, and Rhaenyra smiles, clasps her arm and thanks her. Upstairs, Viserys shows Alicent his model of Old Valyria, answering at least one of my questions from the premiere when he tells her that he reads the histories and provides the plans, but “the stonemasons build the structures.” He asks how Rhaenyra is doing (apparently she and her dad don’t talk much in the wake of the queen’s death), but Alicent encourages him to reach out to her himself. — especially in the very next scene, when Rhaenyra complains about how the small council is already trying to marry off the king, and Alicent is all, “Would it be such a bad thing if he remarried?”

With House of the Dragon's new episode, we finally get a title sequence ahead of all the Rhaenyra, Viserys, and Alicent Targaryen family drama.

The sound is the same. “Definitely the sound that Daenerys had is tied to the Targaryens. [House of the Dragon](https://www.polygon.com/house-of-the-dragon) would not reinvent the wheel there with their own title sequence. The title sequence brings back Game of Thrones’ original theme, but changes up the visuals to match the series’ focus on House Targaryen. Djawadi was [told to avoid flutes, pianos, and violins](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/game-of-thrones-music-ramin-djawadi/583213/) (since they have been featured so often in fantasy themes), and so instead he made an absolute banger out of cellos playing a minor key, making an animated map feel totally epic [and surprisingly versatile](https://www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones/2019/4/14/18310930/game-of-thrones-season-8-title-opening-credits-intro-sequence-changes). [Game of Thrones](https://www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones) be without its theme song?

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.

Daemon makes a bold play as House of the Dragon episode 2 begins to develop some bad habits.

The production value here is so high and Martin’s original tale so rich that it’s probably not possible for House of the Dragon to turn in a truly bad episode. The opening and closing shots of very literally-named warlord Craghas “The Crabfeeder” Drahar surveying the destruction he hath wrought are quite beautiful. Rhaenyra’s immediate understanding of her father’s plight does open her up for an even more acute betrayal when he chooses to marry her best friend, but that doesn’t make the scene before it any less of a missed opportunity. Anything you ‘wish’ you can make happen?” Instead she opts for the shockingly congenial “You are a king…and your first duty is to the realm. Truth be told, “The Rogue Prince” is filled with talky scenes where the quality of the talk just doesn’t pass muster. Forgive the potential hyperbole but Viserys’s brief conversation with his Master of Laws Lord Lyonel Strong (Gavin Spokes) might be among the least interesting and least necessary GoT/HotD scenes ever filmed. While one dragonrider flying to a fiery island to treat with another dragonrider may sound fairly epic in the annals of history, in practice viewers must concede that there’s not much to it. A lot of those educated guesses made their way into “The Heirs of the Dragon” and it’s perhaps why the episode so closely resembles the early Thrones seasons. But when Daemon announces his betrothal to the “Lady” Mysaria (Sonoyo Mizuno) and steals a dragon egg for their eventual child, the king is forced to act. Daemon folds far too quickly and the scene’s dialogue doesn’t really hold up – though newly-minted Kingsguard Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) reminding Daemon of who knocked him off his horse is admittedly satisfying. “The Rogue Prince,” however, doesn’t have many, if any, of those well-sourced scenes. This is an awkward hour of television that doesn’t fully extinguish the show’s hopes of being a worthy heir to the Iron Throne…but it does dim them.

But King Viserys Targaryen doesn't want to start a war with the free cities (who are presumably funding these “pirates”). The Seven Kingdoms have never so and ...

Later, he faces the wrath of Mysaria, who is not pregnant and not betrothed to him but is angry Daemon would use her as a pawn. Viserys also puts Rhaenyra’s worries at ease: Although he must remarry for the sake of the realm, he does not intend to replace her as his heir. As Laena and Viserys take a walk in the gardens together, the king is visibly uncomfortable. Rhaenyra returns to King’s Landing to find her father upset that she flew off without warning, but he’s soon comforted by the news that she took care of Daemon’s mess sans bloodshed. Down in the sept, Rhaenyra vents to Alicent about her father and the council not taking her seriously. Rhaenys gets it, but instead of comforting Rhaenyra or offering guidance, Rhaenys puts her in her place with the cold, hard truth: “Men would sooner put the realm to a torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne. Otto suspiciously disapproves of this union, but, as a widower himself, he empathizes with Viserys on the prospect of “replacing” his wife. Join their two houses, the royal Targaryens with the wealthy Velaryons, as a display of power to their potential foes. (Viserys is such a history buff that he’s had the stonemasons build a miniature replica of Old Valyria, which he keeps in his room. Otto ordered Alicent keep the king company in his chambers while he grieves, and so far, they’ve been bonding over the history of Westeros. He's had enough; he wants to seize the Stepstones by force and get the Crabfeeder out of his territory. The visual is unappetizing, however: swarms of tiny crustaceans are feeding on dying and decaying bodies on the shores of the Stepstones, a set of rocky islands in the sea between Westeros and Essos.

After naming Rhaenyra his heir, Viserys makes some reasonable decisions until he decides to wed Alicent Hightower. Daemon causes trouble on Dragonstone.

And now she’s furious with Daemon for carrying her off to a misty, miserable island and using her as a pawn. Princess Rhaenys (who still needs more to do, for the love of the Seven) gloatingly reminds her that “the order of things” demands a male heir, but like her eventual descendant Daenerys (“I will break the wheel!”), Rhaenyra has plans of her own: “When I am queen, I will create a new order.” But with House Velaryon’s ships and the threat of more heir come to nudge him down the ladder, Daemon may not resist the allure of blood for much longer. Vhagar, the largest and fiercest living dragon, who Tyrion Lannister claims is so big that you could ride a horse down her, is nested somewhere on the coast of Westeros, though Viserys doesn’t know precisely where. But when Syrax and Caraxes face off on the giant stone ramp to Dragonstone, there is finally some delicious, vicious tension in the air. Down in the Stepstones, the Triarchy — a collective from the Free Cities across the Narrow Bay — is nailing Westerosi sailors to pieces of driftwood and then setting crabs on them to tear through their skin and then eat their insides. (It’s a novel portmanteau of cruelties from Game of Thrones: the crucifixions outside Meereen plus the gut-eating rats employed by the Tickler at Harrenhal.) Lord Corlys — the Sea Snake, owner of more than half of Westeros’s sailing vessels, and Master of Ships — sees a direct threat to his livelihood and a threat to the crown. Surely they will all grow in complexity and depth over the next few episodes, but even small hints would do a lot to add as much color to the rest of the cast as Daemon and Otto and Rhaenyra are drenched in. Corlys’s wealth would bolster the crown, and his dominance of the sea between Westeros and Essos (Driftmark is on an island outside Blackwater Bay) would serve as a bulwark against incursion. Alicent Hightower is lovely, and pretty, and a little sad, and she picks her cuticles, but that’s about all the development we get for a young woman who is soon to be at the center of a kingdomwide power struggle. Viserys has proven himself a remote father and a selfish husband — if he has to occasionally sacrifice a wife to the proto-surgeon’s sharp blade, well, he’ll do it for Westeros — but mostly he aims to check all the royal boxes: Produce an heir, rule justly, govern wisely, blah blah blah blah blah. Not to mention that characters are so accustomed to the strange magic of Old Valyria that they don’t wonder at the mysticism of it all.

Richard Lawson and Josh Wigler break down the show's second episode, from crab-eating to dragon egg-tossing and some non-animal related matters, too.

And while the people being eaten alive by crabs in the episode’s opening scene aren't exactly a direct result of that decision, they’re the first of many signals that not all is well in Westeros. [Subtext](https://joinsubtext.com/stillwatching)— send us your questions, theories, or anything else you’d like Josh and Richard to discuss on the show. Take a listen below