'House Of The Dragon' Takes Home Best Drama Series At The Golden Globes
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It’s award season, and to kick it all off, the 80th Golden Globes was held on January 10th with more than notable pick-ups won by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg for The Fablemans, Michelle Yeoh for Everything, Everywhere All at Once, and Jennifer Coolidge for The White Lotus.
The Best Television Drama Series winner went to none other than House of the Dragon. Accepting the award on stage fell to Executive Producer Miguel Sapochnik, along with Emma D’Arcy and Milly Alcock, both of whom portrayed Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen at different ages in the HBO series.
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It was the only pick-up for the prequel series of the wildly popular Game of Thrones, which ended its eight-season run in May of 2019 to mixed reactions. The predecessor show, which takes place about two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones, however, enjoyed a strong first season, earning accolades such as the largest premier in HBO history. It further increased those numbers with the second episode and went on to have the highest viewership for a finale since the end of Game of Thrones.
D’Arcy, Sapochnik, and Alcock posing with the award at the after party.
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House of the Dragon is set approximately two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones and follows the beginning of the downfall of the House of Targaryen in Westeros. There are explicit tie-ins with the original series, expressed through a vision King Viserys shares with his daughter Rhaenyra, but that seems to mostly take a back seat to the usual political machinations that play out over a couple of decades for the show. The time jumps are why two actors are portraying Princess Rhaenyra and much of the cast over the course of the season.
By the end of the first season, it had set up what promises to be an exciting second season as the House of Targaryen prepares to go to war against itself. All of this is of course based on source material found in Fire & Blood, one of the books by the creator George R.R. Martin. The book traces the history of the Targaryen bloodline, and the show is based on one of those segments.
Season two was quickly renewed early on in the first season, and is set to air in 2024.
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Source(s): WSJ
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