Since its premiere, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 episodes have been dropping Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET on both HBO and HBO Max. However, that strategy shifted in an unexpected way with the release of the show’s fourth episode.
In an effort to avoid debuting A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1, episode 4 on the same night as the Super Bowl, HBO decided to drop the episode a few days early. While the linear HBO debut will come on Sunday at the show’s usual 10 p.m. ET time slot, the episode arrived on HBO Max at 3:01 a.m. ET on Friday, February 6, giving fans the chance to dive into the episode early this week. And what an episode it was.
We won’t go too far into spoiler territory, but it’s fair to say that episode 4 was the strongest episode of the show thus far, and its ending left fans desperately wanting the next episode as soon as possible. This is because the episode set up the trial of seven, which will play out in episode 5 and is sure to up the stakes even further to deliver the season’s biggest and most brutal episode yet.
Fans are eager to get their hands on episode 5, but sadly they’re going to have to wait a bit longer between episodes due to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 4’s early release.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 release date brings a return to normalcy for HBO
Although A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms fans were able to enjoy the show’s fourth episode a few days early, this was a one-time occurrence and is not about to become the new reality for the show. Beginning with episode 5, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will return to its usual Sunday night perch to close out the season.
The highly anticipated fifth episode of the show will debut on both HBO and HBO Max at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 15.
With episode 5 dropping on February 15, this does mean that fans will have to wait a bit longer between new episodes thanks to episode 4’s early release. Instead of there being a week between episodes, fans will have to wait nine days between the episodes—which thankfully isn’t too long of a wait, but the wait is certainly going to feel long given how episode 4 ended.
Of course, we’d love it if we didn’t have to wait over a week between episodes, as these next few days are going to feel excruciatingly long at this point. That said, the fifth episode is sure to be one of the show’s most-watched episodes yet, and it’s an episode that will certainly be worth the wait.
New episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premiere every Sunday night on HBO and HBO Max. Keep reading Winter is Coming and tune in for our weekly podcast, Take the Black, to follow along with our coverage all season long.