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‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap And Review: A Season Finale Rivaling The Best Of ‘Game Of Thrones’

House of the Dragon

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Post updated 08/10/26. See updates below.

Heavy lies the crown. Sunday night’s brutal, devastating episode of House of the Dragon certainly made that point abundantly clear. As Rhaenyra slowly descends into a pit of despair, cruelty and desperation, Daemon and his armies run into some snags on their assault of Tumbleton thanks to the various tricks Lord Ormund has up his sleeves. A couple big problems persist, which I’ll get to below, but overall, this was a tremendously entertaining episode of a series that often spends much more time in dramatic dialogue than in clashes of arms.