The showrunner of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” says the second season will offer more familiar “Game of Thrones”-esque thrills and humour.
Speaking with The Times of London, executive producer Ryan Condal says the narrative for the first season was deliberately slowed to ensure viewers had time to get invested in the new characters.
That changes with the next season, which can open up and engage in more action now that the stakes and characters are better estsblished:
“We will get to the spectacle. But you have to understand these people’s complexities before they’re thrown into war.
Series two will hit the rhythms people came to expect from the middle run of Game of Thrones, but it will have been earned, and viewers will feel the tragedies because we put the work in.”
Condal adds there will be more lighthearted moments too in the next season, saying the writers will try to introduce “natural pathways into moments of levity” in the drama.
The show has so far been a success for HBO, pulling in a respectable average of 29 million viewers in the US per episode.
