The Queen Who Ever Was | House of the Dragon

About this episode

The episode discusses Episode 18 of HBO's House of the Dragon, covering character developments, emotional moments, and a review of Season 2.

This week we're covering The Queen Who Ever Was, Episode 18 of HBO's HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. This season we are covering the Game of Thrones prequel series every week as the episodes premiere. This week we're talking about Tyland Lannister's pirate harem, Daemon becoming a Big Wife Guy, Helaena astral projecting into everyone's dreams, Aegon and Larys joining an improve comedy troupe, Caraxes' all-pork diet, and of course Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower having the most emotional secret meeting since... their last emotional secret meeting. We also step back and review Season 2 at large, giving out seasonal awards, discussing some of the very noticeable cut content, and figuring out which storylines we'd re-write to fix the show's pacing this year. Be sure to find on us on Twitter at @itsnottvpod , and make us feel good about ourselves by leaving a review on iTunes . If you write us a good review, we'll read it on air! If you write us a bad review... we will also read that on air. It's Not TV is hosted by David Milone and Nicole Talbot , produced by Matt Milone with support from Next Day Podcast, and is a production of Bruit Media.

People in this episode

Hosts: David Milone, Nicole Talbot

Topics covered

• House of the Dragon
• Game of Thrones prequel
• character analysis
• season review
• emotional moments
• storyline pacing

Keywords

• House of the Dragon
• Game of Thrones
• Rhaenyra Targaryen
• Alicent Hightower
• season review
• character analysis
• Tyland Lannister

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HBO

Books & works: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, Game of Thrones

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