Aug 9, 2026 · 51 min · 9 segments
This week after a quick hello and episode overview (0:04), Blaine gets Adam and Donovan to join the episode where they begin with some non-spoiler thoughts on the penultimate episode of 'House of the…
We've taken in the penultimate episode this season, which is the penultimate season of House of the Dragon.
Did it feel like the usual HBO penultimate episode? Like they kind of have this style of either really raising the stakes or just giving you some bombast in the penultimate and then kind of sweeping up the dust in the last episode.
What about it? Did it fit that mold or didn't?
It did not to me.
Very much.
Like every season you could count on that.
And the
Sopranos
did it a lot.
Yeah.
The Wire too.
Didn't really do it.
Yeah.
It didn't.
Always think of the final episode of the season on Game of Thrones with there's got to be a morning after, you know?
Yeah.
Deadwood did it as well.
They had their huge set piece in the penultimate episode and the last one was like, let me just go and get you ready for the next season.
Is this an effect though? And obviously this veers immediately into spoilers, but we can still talk broad language here.
We'll talk broad language.
Yeah.
Not that those other shows didn't have high-stakes episodes, but with, say, the original Game of Thrones, you kind of know where they're steering, what the big conflict is going to be.
We've taken in the penultimate episode this season, which is the penultimate season of House of the Dragon.
Did it feel like the usual HBO penultimate episode? Like they kind of have this style of either really raising the stakes or just giving you some bombast in the penultimate and then kind of sweeping up the dust in the last episode.
What about it? Did it fit that mold or didn't?
It did not to me.
Very much.
Like every season you could count on that.
And the
Sopranos
did it a lot.
Yeah.
The Wire too.
Didn't really do it.
Yeah.
It didn't.
Always think of the final episode of the season on Game of Thrones with there's got to be a morning after, you know?
Yeah.
Deadwood did it as well.
They had their huge set piece in the penultimate episode and the last one was like, let me just go and get you ready for the next season.
Is this an effect though? And obviously this veers immediately into spoilers, but we can still talk broad language here.
We'll talk broad language.
Yeah.
Not that those other shows didn't have high-stakes episodes, but with, say, the original Game of Thrones, you kind of know where they're steering, what the big conflict is going to be.
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