How the ‘House of the Dragon’ Blood and Cheese Murder Differs from the Book
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Season 2 of House of the Dragon. A long-awaited return to Westeros in the time of Daenerys Targaryen’s ancestors took place in Season 2 of the Game of Thrones spinoff show House of the Dragon, which launched Sunday night on HBO and Max.
The first episode of the second season took no time in plunging viewers back into the violence and backstabbing that prove key to the series.
In the background of the bloody fight for The Iron Throne, a key plot point — The Blood and Cheese murder — from George R. R.
Martin’s book — saw some changes at the end of Episode 1, titled “A Son For A Son.” As viewers will recall, Season 1 ended with the tragic death of Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) son Lucerys or “Luke” (Elliot Grihault) at the hands of Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) and his dragon Vhagar.
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