As Daemon Targaryen suffers from nightmares week to week in the dark, dank rooms of Harrenhal, many House of the Dragon fans have had one question on their minds: “When will this be over?”
But as Game of Thrones fans shout “Filler!” and craft Luigi’s Mansion memes, I’m here to argue in favor of the Harrenhal happenings, and to celebrate the weird, spooky, and incestuous goings on in the Riverlands. Harrenhal has allowed House of the Dragon to flesh out its mystical side amid much politicking in Dragonstone and King’s Landing, and bloody skirmishes elsewhere, and has given the show an injection of aesthetic diversity. I’ll say it: Harrenhal is beautiful and terrifying, and refreshingly unlike everything else we see in Westeros. (Not to be all “Getting a lot of ‘Boss Baby’ vibes from this,” but Harrenhal’s exterior is giving me warm and fuzzy ‘Shrine of Storms from Demon’s Souls’ vibes.........