WiC Binges: The Dragon Prince

Welcome to WiC Binges, the series where we watch and review every episode of a show in rapid succession, the better to give you the true binge-watching experience, because releasing episodes one at a time is for the 20th century.

On the docket today: The Dragon Prince, an animated Netflix series from Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond. Ehasz was a head writer on Avatar: The Last Airbender, and it shows. That’s an awful lot of Avatar in this series, from the animation style to the humor to the plotting. But there’s a hefty helping of Game of Thrones, too, HBO’s megahit being the current show to beat, plus a dash of The Lord of the Rings. Is the mixture successful, or is The Dragon Prince a redundant experiment? Let’s walk through each episode and find out!