A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is continuing to smash all expectations on HBO Max, ranking among the service’s top 2026 titles and remaining in top ten lists months after its January debut.
Hopefully this leads to more shows like this but we can branch out to new original IPs.
Personally was not a fan of this. The show runners totally flubbed the tone of the original story by trying to cram so many unnecessary attempts at bad humor.
I thought it was enjoyable enough but the humour did feel very forced at times. The main character isn’t particularly interesting, either. Like I get that it’s trying to subvert expectations by making the protagonist shit at everything but it just makes some scenes, like combat, way more tedious and uninteresting than they otherwise would be.
I assume the story picks up or he develops as a character, because I don’t see how people can watch multiple seasons of this as it is. It basically has one gimmick, being the anti-Game of Thrones, and that wears thin within the first short season.
