WiC Weekly: August 14-20

We’ve got early reviews of House of the Dragon, late reviews of Westworld, tales of executives gone wild and Sandman surprises!

House of the Dragon premieres tonight! Naturally, a lot of our stories over the past week focused on HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel, starting with this editorial about a character who’s missing in action:

Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy says that the endgame for the show has been planned since the pilot. If the show is renewed for season 5, we’ll get to see it.

There are no shortage of morally gray characters in Westeros, but Graham McTavish’s Ser Harrold Westerling is one of the few who strives to always do good.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the most expensive TV show in history. But Jeff Bezos says it’s about more than just money.

Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany really thought it would be a good idea to get in front of a crowd and call Emilia Clarke a “short, dumpy girl”:

Everything is just fine at HBO Max, y’all.

House of the Dragon has infinite potential to be great…if it does things by the book. Here are nine things that the show needs to do right to succeed:

This one was wild, y’all:

Okay, we’ve talked a lot about House of the Dragon. We’ve seen the first six episodes. What’s the verdict?

Finally, we interview author R.R. Virdi talks to us about his new book The First Binding:

And there’ll be lots more where that came from, particularly now that House of the Dragon is finally here! Stick around WiC.

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