House of the Dragon cast

The show is set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, who is a teenager at the start of Game of Thrones. This image released by HBO Max shows ...

He was followed by his younger brother Maekar I, and then Maekar I’s youngest son, Aegon V. In the US, it first aired on Sunday 21 August at 9pm on HBO and HBO Max. As we discovered in Game of Thrones, Rhaegar secretly married Ned’s sister, Lyanna Stark, and had a son – Jon Snow – real name Aegon Targaryen. [ set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/house-of-the-dragon-when-set-game-of-thrones-prequel-targaryens-timeline-explained-1805549?ico=in-line_link), who is a teenager at the start of Game of Thrones. Aenys I married his eldest daughter Rhaena to his eldest son Aegon – the Targaryens famously do not have a problem with incest. Maegor was succeeded by Aenys’s only remaining heir, Jaehaerys, after his death.

Matt Smith would like Daemon to be played by Big Bird, but Milly Alcock thinks Count Von Count is more fitting. Here's all the Sesame Street characters the ...

“He’d be Balerion the Black Dread,” says Condal, referring to one of the most monstrous dragons in Westerosi history. [ this blog](https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/#196d790943ab) for all my TV recaps and reviews including every episode of House of the Dragon and the upcoming Rings of Power. “I think we need to be Statler and Waldorf,” he says, referring to himself and co-showrunner and Game Of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik. Corlys is certainly a grouch, but once again Milly Alcock has a better idea: “Oscar the Grouch” she said, should “play Rhys.” She’s referring to Rhys Ifans who plays the ever-gloomy Otto Hightower, Hand of King Viserys, in the show. Some House Of The Dragon stars wanted the same Sesame Street character to play different House roles in this hypothetical parody. In the sketch, the lords and ladies of Jesteros need to figure out who will be the next King and to do so they play a game of chairs. At this point a red-haired Muppet pops up and says “The monster is blue and full of errors.” Olivia Cooke, who plays the grownup version of Alicent Hightower, isn’t much better when it comes to Sesame Street trivia. “He’s like a vampire when he counts.” To be fair, Daemon is definitely more of a vampiric character in the show—ruthless, white-haired and pale. It’s musical chairs, of course, which is basically as sensible a means to determine who gets to be king as picking the next spoiled—likely developmentally stunted—male brat in line based entirely on luck, age and Y chromosomes. The chairs the game is actually played with include a Baseball Bat Throne, a Ping Pong Paddle Throne and a Nine-Iron Throne. House Of The Dragon is a very, very dark and disturbing grimdark fantasy show, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun.