House of the Dragon‘s second season will go down as one of the most controversial in HBO history, but the prequel isn’t worried about the past. It’s moving forward with its next season.

The first season of House of the Dragon, which aired on HBO and Max in 2022, had a full 10 episodes. The season had the space to tell a full arc front to back a

The Hightower family tree has grown a new branch with news from Variety that James Norton is joining House of the Dragon as Ormund Hightower, the first cousin of Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and the nephew of Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans).

Even though the second season hasn't matched the record-breaking numbers of the first season, which premiered with 9.986 million viewers in the summer of 2022, the continuous rise in viewership is a positive sign,