Dragons are unleashed in trailer for House of the Dragon Episode 203

The second season of House of the Dragon rolled on tonight with Episode 202, a very solid entry that followed up on the death of Prince Jaehaerys, featured a blow-out marital spat between Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen, and climaxed with a fight to the death between twin brothers.

Next up is Episode 203 (HBO is not being forthcoming with these titles). Watch the trailer below:

Now that Criston Cole is officially the Hand of the King to Aegon Targaryen, he's pushing the new king to be more aggressive in his war against Rhaenyra. And Rhaenyra will have to respond in kind. By the sound of it, her counselors will push her to use the dragons in her arsenal to light up the skies. That could get very deadly for the characters and very entertaining for us.

Meanwhile, it looks like Daemon Targaryen will take the castle of Harrenhal on behalf of his wife, although it doesn't sound like he's communicating with the rest of his team overmuch. Daemon is a loose canon at the best of times, and I'd be worried if he went incommunicado while I was waging a war.

We're two episodes down. Here's the full release schedule for this season of House of the Dragon:

• Episode 201, "A Son for a Son": June 16 (1 hour, 4 minutes)
• Episode 202: June 23 (1 hour, 12 minutes)
• Episode 203: June 30 (1 hour, 10 minutes)
• Episode 204: July 07 (60 minutes)
• Episode 205: July 14
• Episode 206: July 21
• Episode 207: July 28
• Episode 208: August 04

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