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Game of Thrones only scratched the surface, and there’s enough premium to be mined yet. The world of Westeros remains prime real estate.

House of the Dragon covers well-trodden ground: scheming, backstabbing, jousting, and orgy-ing all come into play as pretenders vie for control over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. If these markers don’t transport you back to Westeros, Ramin Djawadi’s textured strings are sure to put you under the spell again with their swirling intrigue. Seeing as the focus here is on the power struggles of the Targaryen family, expect lots of silver-blonde wigs, incestuous relationships and first names whose spellings the writer and editor must double-check.

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Set some two centuries before Daenerys Targaryen decided to burn it all, the new series takes us back to a time when her ancestors fought their own game of thrones, the result of which nearly wiped out their entire bloodline and their dragons with it. House of the Dragon, the first of these IP extensions, arrived this Monday, operating almost as if it had been asked to joust with one hand tied behind its back. With each IP extension HBO announced, excitement has been tempered with doubt for good reason. But Game of Thrones had taken an unprecedented freefall and landed with a thud, leaving a bitter taste.

Quality tends to wane across the seasons of any TV show, epic-scaled TV phenomena included. Only the investment didn’t provide the high returns they had grown accustomed to. Fans had invested in the HBO fantasy series for nearly a decade. King’s Landing lay in charred and ashy ruins at the end of Game of Thrones - much like the show’s legacy itself. Note: This review of the first six episodes of House of the Dragon contains no major spoilers.