House of the Dragon' Season 2

House of the Dragon co-creator and executive producer, Ryan Condal, has revealed Season 2 will begin filming early next year.

All episodes of Season 1 of House of the Dragon are now streaming on HBO Max. " He also noted that "...those will continue to be the home bases for the show." Whether a 2023 release date is possible is still not known; however, viewers can rest assured that the production team is hard at work on creating the second season. However, a war is, in fact, on the horizon for Westeros. Of the second season's expanding world Condal noted that "[j]ust as the original Game of Thrones grew in scope and expanse as it went, so, too, will ours." However, he also noted that there will remain several key settings that will ground the series, noting that the production has "...lived a good bit in three different worlds through this show: King’s Landing, Dragonstone and Driftmark.

The Dance of Dragons has begun. Rhaenyra Targaryen, the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, briefly considered bending the knee to her half-brother King Aegon ...

Of all the families mentioned in the episode, we have a special place in our hearts for the Starks. House of the Dragon has been playing fast and loose with the children’s ages throughout the series, and at this point it’s unclear who is and isn’t considered a grown-up ready to fight. Perhaps he interprets Viserys keeping the secret of the dream from him as a signal that Viserys never trusted Daemon or considered Daemon a possible heir to the throne. In the Season 1 finale, he tells Rhaenyra that Team Black has more dragons than Team Green. He tells her that Aegon the Conquerer subjugated the people of Westeros in part because he had a dream a Targaryen would need to sit on the Iron Throne when a great winter (i.e. And if her children continue to die, is Rhaenyra doomed to the same fate that Daenerys suffered in [Game of Thrones?](https://time.com/6206772/house-of-the-dragon-connects-game-of-thrones/) But in the final episode, we see a fissure between the Queen and her partner. In both cases, the dream serves largely as a plot device to confuse Alicent into believing her son ought to be crowned king and angering Daemon who never learned the secret prophesy from his brother. The Season 1 finale was named “The Black Queen,” and it seems that Rhaenyra is finally ready to take on that title. Early in the season, Viserys warned Rhaenyra that “the idea that we control the dragons is an illusion. Again, this seems largely to be choice on the part of the writers to complicate the character rather than a plot-driven decision. But the death of Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys at the hands of Aegon’s brother Aemond—mistake or not—enraged Rhaenyra and kicked off a civil war that will play out over several seasons.

A man with silver blonde hair places a gold crown on the head of a woman. All hail the Black Queen! Credit: Ollie Upton/HBO. If you absolutely ...

They attack the Red Keep and force Queen Helaena (Phia Saban) to choose which of her sons they will kill. On the one hand, we get the Starks back. [House of the Dragon](https://mashable.com/category/game-of-thrones). On the other, we get more traumatic child murder. I'll be going full spoilers here, so if you don't want to know the future of the Dance of the Dragons, turn away now. (If you're having any doubts about spoilers, now's definitely the time to turn back.) Using his connections to the underbelly of King's Landing, Daemon enlists the help of two unsavory characters known only as Blood and Cheese. Rhaenyra and Daemon (Matt Smith) will retaliate against Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her family in a big way. The bad news? The good news? Martin's Fire & Blood](https://mashable.com/article/house-of-the-dragon-book-vs-show), we have a few predictions as to the chaos coming our way. But with that epic cliffhanger comes the horrifying realization that we have to wait for Season 2 to find out what will happen next. We'll just have to sit tight and await any casting or production announcements HBO will send our way until then.

Despite some unconventional choices, including a mid-season time jump that saw series leads Milly Alcock and Emily Carey replaced by Emma D'Arcy and Olivia ...

However, shows such as [Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) on Disney+ and [The Rings of Power](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-rings-of-power) on Amazon have managed to look cinematic on TV without darkening the screen. [House of the Dragon](https://www.denofgeek.com/house-of-the-dragon/). Condon himself invoked Star Wars when talking about another fan issue – the popularity of Matt Smith’s character Daemon Targaryen. [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/house-of-the-dragon-finale-showrunner-interview-1235246992/), “The visual continuity of the show is something we will look at.” As the phrase “visual continuity” suggests, complaints about the franchise’s darkness are nothing new. “For TV, you’re releasing it onto a million different television screens and different setups and calibrations all over the planet,” Condon elaborated. Martin, but it comes after a largely disappointing final season of HBO’s [Game of Thrones](https://www.denofgeek.com/game-of-thrones/).

The Dance of the Dragons that Martin is referring to is the war of succession between Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Rhaenyra Targaryen told in the six ...

He wins an emotional victory for Rhaenyra by taking back the home of [the late Ser Harwin Strong](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-strong-larys-harwin-lyonel-explained/), that on his death was passed to his younger brother [Larys Strong](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-larys-strong-game-of-thrones-littlefinger/), and thus the Greens. As it was [the loss of his own eye](https://collider.com/is-alicent-right-eye-for-an-eye-house-of-the-dragon/) many years before that sent Aemond chasing after his nephew and unintentionally kicked off the deaths of so many. This in turn leads to an attempt for retaliation from the Greens which will lead to the duel between brothers and twins Rhaenyra's heir, Prince Jacaerys Targaryen (Harry Collett) will once again prove his worth as a future King of the Seven Kingdoms by flying to the Eyrie, and Winterfell (he also flies to Sisterton and White Harbor in the book) on his dragon Vermax and securing the loyalty of these houses for his mother. [Rhaenyra's King-consort](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-valyrian-weddings-explained/) makes his way to the Riverlands on the back of his blood-red dragon Caraxes to claim Harrenhal castle in the name of his wife. Siding with the Blacks are House Arryn of the Eyrie, House Frey of the Crossing, House Greyjoy of the Iron Islands, House Tarly of Horn Hill, House Stark of Winterfell, and [House Velaryon of Driftmark](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-velaryon-explained/) - with Lord Corlys to be named Hand of the Queen. In Fire and Blood they make a big move to remedy this, and we should get to see this early in Season 2. [House Hightower](https://collider.com/house-of-the-dragon-house-hightower-explained/) of Old Town, House Baratheon of Storm's End, House Lannister of Casterly Rock, and what remains of House Strong. Season 1 of House of the Dragon served mostly as an introduction to this by featuring the struggles that both King Jaehaerys I (Michael Carter) and Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) faced to choose their heirs within the previous chapter of Fire and Blood titled "Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession." The war is going to move from the shoring up of alliances to a ruthless bloodbath, and no one will come out of it unscathed. If Season 1 did the work of introducing audiences to the world, the characters, and the issues that they face then that should allow Season 2 to tell a far more detailed and in-depth story. So what can we look forward to seeing in House of the Dragon Season 2?