We’ve just finished celebrating the finale of one of the great spinoff series of all time in “Better Call Saul,” and now the gods of television once again smile upon us with another potentially memorable prequel: HBO’s “Game of Thrones” precursor “House of the Dragon,” which gets off to bloody good start in the first six episodes and holds the promise of becoming must-see Sunday night TV.
It’s going to take a while to recognize all the new players without a scorecard (which is why we’ve provided a scorecard—see sidebar below) but I’m pretty sure we’re not going to have to worry about a time-jumping storyline in “Dragon” à la “Saul.” Jamie and Cersei Lannister, Arya and Sansa Stark, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen—their exploits lie ahead, in the distant future. As we’re told in the series premiere, we are in …
