House of the Dragon

HBO's Targaryen prequel — set roughly 172 years before Game of Thrones — delivered what many thought impossible: a worthy successor. The story of the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons brings all of Martin's moral complexity and tragic inevitability to a new cast. Paddy Considine's King Viserys is one of the great tragic figures in television history, and the dragon sequences far exceeded the original series in scale and visceral impact.