A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Reviews: Game Of Thrones Spin-Off Has Critics Saying The Same Thing |
Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as "Dunk" and "Egg" in the new Game Of Thrones prequel A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms
Following the global success of House Of The Dragon, a second Game Of Thrones spin-off has now debuted.
The first episode of A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms premiered on Monday morning – but while House Of The Dragon took the epic battles, graphic content and jaw-dropping twists that made Game Of Thrones such a hit and turned them up to 11, this new Westeros-based series takes a markedly different approach.
While critics can’t seem to agree on whether they’re on board with A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, one thing they’ve all picked up on is that the new series is on a far less grand scale than Game Of Thrones, with humour – and crude toilet humour and sex jokes at that – often the driving force of the episodes.
In other words, it’s Game Of Thrones, but not as we know it.
For better or worse, here’s a selection of what critics are saying about A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms so far…
The Independent (2/5)
“The sort of HBO-specialty gratuitousness that made Thrones such a buzzy provocateur is here, but seems crasser and more jarring than ever. We don’t get five minutes into the first episode before seeing Dunk expel faeces from his bare backside. (A nice ‘Welcome back to Westeros’, I suppose.) The very beginning of the second episode features a long shot of a man with a penis as big as a forearm, micturating in full view of the camera. It’s indecency for indecency’s sake.”
TheGuardian
“This is Game of Thrones at its best. A rich, politically complex meal, with sides of bone-snapping violence. Its........