Wrestling for the Iron Throne: Paddy Considine and Milly Alcock in “House of the Dragon”
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Like a “Christmas Eve in Italy”: impressions of the premiere of the new series from George RR Martin’s universe, “House of the Dragon”. Can she further increase the cult of “Game of Thrones”?
London in late summer doesn’t leave even Londoners cold. The air is a few centimeters above the patch. Heat vortices pick up dry leaves and the smell of urine from the ground. People from across the Kingdom and beyond crowd the streets looking for a distraction, a cool down or “a few pounds so I can get drunk – hey, at least I’m being honest”. With a little imagination, especially to block out the English police sirens, one is transported from the Queen’s seat on the Thames to King’s Landing on Blackwater Rush, the capital of the Kingdom of Westeros, in George RR Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire “ is located.
From 2011, the American pay channel HBO created eight seasons of the series, which is named after the first of five volumes that have been published so far: “(A) Game of Thrones”. It is about the struggle of various noble houses in Westeros for the Iron Throne and how a young destitute woman prepares, by virtue of her royal lineage, to claim for herself the throne once forged in dragonfire from the swords of vanquished enemies – only to face an even greater threat than human lust for power: a kind of zombie winter.
