House of the Dragon' Episode 5 release date

House of the Dragon is about to release its fifth episode and with it, comes the expectation from the upcoming timeskip where a variety of cast members will be ...

I only now realize how well calculated it was.” – King Viserys. Otto Hightower receives news of the pleasure house visit and tells King Viserys, who is understandably appalled at such an accusation. However, Rhaenyra decides that she is not done for the night and ends up sleeping with her bodyguard Ser Christon Cole. The two spend the evening enjoying local entertainment and then proceed to enter a pleasure house. But I am glad you’re home. However, we are getting too far ahead of ourselves; we still have another hour of political manoeuvring, secret sharing and high-stakes romantic liaising to get through.

HBO's popular Game of Thrones prequel just keeps getting better as we reach the halfway point of Season 1. If you need a recap on last week's episode (Episode 4 ...

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Episode 5 of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' spin off gets its ducks — and its geese — in a row. A royal celebration goes off with a great big bloody hitch.

He says he'll be flying to the Eyrie, the seat of House Arryn in the Vale, and petitioning Lady Jeyne to give it to him. If the point of that is to show how people get ground up in the gears of the Targaryen Dynasty, box checked. On a show called House of the Dragon! In the Driftmark dunes, Laenor and his horseplay pal Ser Joffrey demonstrate how Joffrey got the nickname "Knight of Kisses." The hall of the Iron Throne has been turned into the welcome reception for the royal wedding. Corlys suggests that Laenor's "true nature" is just a phase, and that the realm will welcome Rhaenyra's succession, which is a real one-two punch of pure wrongness there, my guy. "It is the only thing I have to my f***ing name!" Back in the godswood at the Red Keep, Queen Alicent runs into the prodigiously creepy Larys Strong (son of Lord Lyonel, brother to Harwyn Strong, who's turned up a couple times on the show, and who's gonna be hopping a few rungs up the call sheet next week). says Laenor, which only serves to make us imagine the endless string of disappointed and frustrated geese that have had to put up with Laenor's yeomanlike ministrations. The show takes this as the first of several opportunities to direct our attention to the king's less-than-robust health (drink!). A coughing, wheezing king (drink!) is greeted by Corlys, who steps off the Driftwood Throne to bend the knee. This recap of House of the Dragon's fifth episode contains spoilers for ...

It's finally time for Rhaenyra Targaryen to say I do. Meanwhile, Queen Alicent continues to deal with the fallout of Otto Hightower's dismissal.

"Ser Laenor is quite dear to me, as I know the princess is to you. Next up to congratulate the royals is a lord from House Royce. Daemon calls it a tragic accident, but Ser Royce accuses Daemon of being the culprit. "I've always feared the day you'd have to marry a woman, and now it comes," the chap says. Queen Alicent is watching the commotion from the balcony of her chambers. Strong keeps rambling sycophantically about being glad that Rhaenyra is well enough to sail to Driftmark, but the implication of his revelation was clearly grasped by the Queen. Viserys and the new Hand of the King exchange concerned glances. "The time is coming, Alicent. "The King will die. With a backdrop of pouring rain, as with all good farewells, she tells her father that she regrets the King's decision to expel him. We've heard a few references to Daemon Targaryen's wife – Rhea Royce, or "the bronze bitch" as Daemon calls her – but we've never actually met her. After being dismissed as Hand of the King in the final moments of episode 4, Otto Hightower is on the way out of King's Landing.

It's wedding time in Westeros on another talky episode of House Of The Dragon that further exposes the cracks in the Targaryen armor.

It’s been a talky episode to this point, with some good heart to hearts between Alicent and Otto (Rhys Ifans), for instance, and between Rhaenyra and Laenor. Her green gown should be a major moment – but House Of The Dragon has to tell us that instead of showing it because it hasn’t established any of the necessary background. But it’s a bad idea to tie the knot while rats nearby feed on the congealing blood of your husband’s recently deceased lover. It’s also not a super great sign if your own lover is considering seppuku at the same time, only to be stopped by your hostile stepmother. The week-long festivities planned for the royal wedding are derailed almost instantly when Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel), in all his heavy armor, gets into an altercation with the velvet-clad Joffrey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod), aka the Knight of Kisses, aka Laenor’s boyfriend. After that chat, when Alicent enters the engagement party in green, she’s supposed to be making a major statement of independence from the Targaryens. Alicent (Emily Carey) finally decides to strike back this week, infuriated that Rhaenyra lied to her (she didn’t exactly, but it’s a question of degree), and acts out against both husband and heir. The shadowy sets and general darkness of the show cause a few problems this week, and there’s one aspect of costuming that should be shocking and just… It’s worth noting that she’s egged on in that by Ser Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), who seems to be a little bit of a Littlefinger here. But you can’t keep a good(?) man down for long, and sure enough he’s back on his feet in no time, quietly murdering his wife to leave the way open to marry his niece. Driftmark makes for a pretty cool location: it’s a combination of St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and dimly lit studio sets filled with the riches of the sea, brought back from the Sea Snake’s many voyages. Warning: The below contains full spoilers for Episode 5 of House Of The Dragon, which aired on HBO on Sept.