Back in March, HBO announced it was cutting the Season 2 episode order for House Of The Dragon from ten to eight. There wasn’t a clear reason given at the time, and the announcement resulted in some differing perspectives within the Game Of Thrones fanbase. At the time, I expressed some concern about the shortened season but wanted to hear more details on why the choice was made. Well, some of those details finally came this week from HBO exec Francesca Orsi, and now I’m not sure how to feel.
The HBO Head Of Drama sat down for a lengthy interview with Deadline and talked about a variety of different projects including Succession, The Last Of Us, Perry Mason and more. During the chat, the subject of House Of The Dragon came up and she talked about how the show locked all its scripts prior to the writer’s strike and is currently filming. That’s when the episode count came up, and Orsi offered the following thoughts…
