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Total Film
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Lauren Milici

House of the Dragon showrunner says season 3 goes to "extremely dark places" – and says fans shouldn't expect a happy ending: "We're crafting a very faithful adaptation"

Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon season 3.

House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal says we can expect season 3 to get even darker, as the show is staying pretty faithful to the Fire and Blood saga.

"I mean, I don't know. Do you, do we really expect happy endings in Westeros? I think this show goes to extremely dark places, places we've been, places we're yet to go," Condal said at a press conference attended by GamesRadar+. "But I will say, one of the big challenges of adapting Fire and Blood is not making this an aimless, bleak death march, just because of the nature of the history. It's based on The Anarchy, which is this very dark period. This one family that tears itself apart over whether a woman should sit on the throne. That's this great period in British history and the islands acting on either side."

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