This Week: At Least We'll Always Have David Tennant

What are you all watching?

I have to say that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is not working out for me. I keep doing that painful yawning where tears come into your eyes. I was so thrilled when they cast Holly Hunter as the lead, but what are they doing to her?

House of the Dragon: The Queen Who Ever Was

“The dragons dance, and men are like dust under their feet. And all our fine thoughts, all our endeavors are as nothing. We march now toward our annihilation.”

House of the Dragon: The Red Sowing

“The order of things has changed, Your Grace. Why not embrace it?”

Game of Thrones had a tradition of delivering amazing penultimate episodes, for most of its run anyway. This was a pretty amazing penultimate episode for House of the Dragon.

Juliette's Best of 2024

Thank you as ever to Billie and everyone at Doux Reviews for letting me come back and write one of these every year even when I haven't had time to write anything else for the site since the last one! I do love doing them.:)

House of the Dragon: Smallfolk

“It’s not a prize to be won, but a burden to bear.”

Everyone's strategizing. And if they're not strategizing, they're restrategizing.

House of the Dragon: Regent

“Was it worth the price?”

While not nearly as impactful as the previous episode, this one does portray the aftermath quite well. And keeps the ball rolling, as far as the plot goes.

House of the Dragon: The Red Dragon and the Gold

“I inherited eighty years of peace from my father. Before I was to end it, I needed to know there was no other path. And now I do. Only one choice remains to me: either I win my claim or die.”

People were clamoring for more action. Well, they got it.

House of the Dragon: The Burning Mill

“Sin begets sin begets sin.”

The show continues to slowly build its pieces, even as everything continues to unravel in the plot. Not much happened in this episode — and not all that happened was entirely satisfying — but it is a juicy bit of setup.

House of the Dragon: Rhaenyra the Cruel

"And what if the hand that's done it is not the one to blame. The gods punish us."

The season premiere was mostly about regrouping with everyone and setting the scene for the escalating war. Now that the escalation is underway, things are starting to get interesting. And very intense.

House of the Dragon: A Son for a Son

“There’s a chill in the air. Summer is well and truly through.”

Well, it’s about to heat up.

House of the Dragon: The Black Queen

“It's been said that as Targaryens, we are closer to gods than to men. And the Iron Throne puts us a touch closer, perhaps."

House of the Dragon: The Green Council

"There is a beast beneath the boards!"

In a twist, instead of publishing House of the Dragon Season One's penultimate episode and finale reviews in their own consecutive weeks, I chose to do what many of us pray George R.R. Martin is doing with his final two A Song of Ice and Fire books: finish writing both and publish them back-to-back.

House of the Dragon: The Lord of the Tides

"I must put things right..."

This episode was very impressive, sad and moving. Makes what’s about to happen all the more tragic. This is the calm before the storm.

House of the Dragon: Driftmark

“They will fear what else we might be capable of.”

The last few episodes have been especially dramatic and intense, but this may be the most dramatic yet.

House of the Dragon: The Princess and the Queen

"Once they're fully bound to you, they will refuse to take instruction from any other."

This is where things start to get real complicated.

House of the Dragon: We Light the Way

“Congratulations, stepdaughter. What a blessing this is for you.”

It's a wedding episode. So, naturally, we begin and end with murder.

House of the Dragon: King of the Narrow Sea

“It's where people come to take what they want.”

Let's get naughty.

House of the Dragon: Second of His Name

“The lords of the realm gather like crows to a carcass, hoping to feast on my bones.”

Enter: Aegon...

House of the Dragon: The Rogue Prince

“To elude a storm, you can either sail into it or around it. But you must never await its coming.”

And so it begins.

House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon

"The only thing that could tear down the house of the dragon was itself."

Let's get those knees bending, folks.