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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 3 REVIEW
It’s been two years since season two of House of the Dragon premiered and the world has been waiting with bated breath to finally see some action in the show. We last left our heroes walking into a giant battle and season three picks up immediately in the thick of it. Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) allies have banded together to crush King’s Landing’s forces from land, sea, and air and quite impressively does so but with a great cost. Where the first two seasons took their time plotting away everyone’s desires to rule the seven kingdoms, season three takes a firm stand in ramping up the action and story to sprint towards the finish line. Through Rhaenyra’s faith in Alicent (Olivia Cooke), she and Daemon (Matt Smith) almost single handedly take over the iron throne. It’s quite shocking to see House of the Dragon speed up the story and bring our characters to their final destinations and yet, the middle of this season brings back familiar plotting and pacing. Now that Queen Rhaenyra has taken over King’s Landing, she finally experiences what it’s like to rule and deal with all of the daily troubles a kingdom goes through. Luckily, we have multiple storylines that carry the show on it’s back. Surprisingly, the most interesting is the side quest of King Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Lord Larys (Matthew Needham) as they try to find refuge away from the chaos. What we’re left with is a more action forward season that still suffers from boring story structure, but at least this time the show knows how to stick the landing. Listen as Wright, Dom, and Ryan discuss the third season of House of the Dragon!
CREATED BY: Ryan Condal, George R. R. Martin
STARRING: Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, James Norton, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Matthew Needham, Sonoya Mizuno, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Harry Collett, Phia Saban, Bethany Antonia, Jefferson Hall, Abubakar Salim, Clinton Liberty, Phoebe Campbell, Kurt Egyiawan, Freddie Fox, Gayle Rankin, Kieran Bew, Tom Bennett, Joplin Sibtain, Ellora Torchia, Tommy Flanagan, Simon Russell Beale, Dan Fogler, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
YOUR REVIEWERS
Wright Sulek (The Other Boss, Trash in the Can, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, One Man’s Trash, Screener Squad)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox. As of 2024, Wright has now been inducted into the Austin Film Critics Association as well as co-owns the One of Us network with Chris Cox.
Ryan Aleck Hill (Screener Squad, Video and Audio Editor)
Ryan is a Washington D.C. based filmmaker & video editor who loves watching and talking about movies more than just about anything. He currently works at a creative agency as a director of photography/video editor, and does freelance video editing for Anthony Fantano/TheNeedleDrop. He also has a YouTube channel (Downhill Media) where he works on a weirdo art explainer series called “Artsplained” with his partner Michelle. He was a part of the Spill.com community way back in the day, where he was cursed with an obsession for movies. In an effort to break the curse, he shows up on the Screener Squad podcast every once in a while and edits for One Of Us. Chris Cox claims that this is the only way it can be broken. You can follow him on Twitter but you’ll probably regret it.
Dominic Rizzi (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
Born and raised in the Hudson Valley, NY, Dom “the Movie Nerd” Rizzi fell in love with film at a young age. After majoring in film in both community college and achieving a Bachelor’s degree in film from SUNY Oswego, Dom went on to start his own podcast Talkin’ TV during Covid before studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Relentlessly passionate about everything related to film, Dom has shot and produced several short films, as well as having written several scripts. Working at a liquor store by day, Dom has continued to pursue his passion for cinema in any capacity he can, because to follow his dreams, in the words of Shia LaBeouf pre-descent into insanity, “just do it.”
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