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The Independent
|January 14, 2026
'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' is a puerile 'Game of Thrones' prequel, dripping in bodily fluid
What is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? Having watched the entire first season, coming to Sky Atlantic, I’m still not sure I could tell you. It’s obvious that the second of HBO’s Game of Thrones spin-offs seeks to zag where House of the Dragon zigged, the latter a far more conventionally Thronesian epic of dynastic warfare. A Knight seems by comparison a modest, nutrition-light souffle of a project - if indeed souffle is the right word for a series with an unabashed zeal for bodily fluids. Blood, vomit, urine and excrement abound.
Set some 89 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and several decades after
This story is from the January 14, 2026 edition of The Independent.
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