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VIEWING GUIDE
What’s on TV and radio tonight:
House of the Dragon
Also tonight: Cult Massacre; Live Tennis: Queens; Lost Boys and Fairies; and more
What to watch on TV
Emma D’Arcy returns as Rhaenyra Targaryen for the second series of House of the Dragon
HBO
For full TV listings for the week, see our comprehensive TV guide
Viewing guide, by Toby Earle
House of the Dragon
Sky Atlantic/Now, 2am/9pm
Escape the fractious political jockeying and manoeuvring of the moment by returning to
Westeros, where the fractious political jockeying and manoeuvring is accompanied by the threat
of dragon warfare — a somewhat more formidable threat than a live TV debate. Close to two
years have passed since the conclusion of the first series of this prequel, the killing of Lucerys
Velaryon, son of Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), by Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell)
rending an irreparable faultline within the Targaryen family. In Succession, HBO’s other show
about dysfunctional elites, members of the Roy family hurled poison-coated verbal barbs at one
another; here the Targaryens are all too ready to resort to violence, and this second series begins
with battle lines drawn and war almost inevitable. Yet there is anything but unquestioning
loyalty within either side. Fiendish scheming by devious courtiers and second-tier nobles
