House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake is Mary & Blake Media’s TV-first House Of The Dragon podcast, with episode recaps, reactions, listener feedback, character analysis, story craft, theories, dragon nonsense, and a frankly irresponsible amount of conversation about the Targaryen family.
After every episode, we pull up a chair and talk through what happened, why it mattered, which character made the worst possible decision available to them, what worked underneath the storytelling, and where the Dance of the Dragons may be headed next.
Spoiler policy: We have read A Song of Ice and Fire, but we have not read Fire & Blood. Our coverage is TV-first. Once an episode has aired, we discuss that episode in full, but we avoid knowingly spoiling future events from George R. R. Martin’s history of the Targaryen civil war.
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Our podcast archive follows the Dance from Viserys trying desperately to keep his family together through the point where absolutely nobody is keeping anything together anymore.
Choose a season to find episode recaps, reactions, listener feedback, explainers, reviews, and the larger Mary & Blake coverage surrounding each chapter of the story.
Season 1
The Family Breaks
Viserys, Rhaenyra, Alicent, Daemon, succession, inheritance and the choices that make civil war inevitable.
Season 2
The War Begins
Blood and Cheese, Rook’s Rest, Harrenhal, dragonseeds and a realm moving from threat into actual war.
Season 3
The War Eats Everyone
The Gullet, King’s Landing, Tumbleton, Rhaenyra’s rule and the consequences of turning people into weapons.
What You’ll Get In Every Episode
- Recap & reaction — what happened, what mattered, and the moments that made us yell at the television.
- Character analysis — Rhaenyra, Alicent, Daemon, Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, Daeron, Corlys and everybody else trapped inside the Targaryen disaster machine.
- Story craft — why a scene works, why another one does not, how character choices create consequence, and what the writers are actually doing underneath the dragons and spectacle.
- Political and family drama — power, inheritance, legitimacy, propaganda, resentment and the astonishing ability of this family to turn emotional wounds into national policy.
- TV-first theories — where we think the show may be headed without using future Fire & Blood events as a cheat sheet.
- Listener feedback — your theories, disagreements, questions, hot takes, ratings and emotional damage after each episode.
Why Mary & Blake Cover House Of The Dragon This Way
We love the dragons. Obviously.
But House Of The Dragon gets really interesting when the spectacle becomes consequence.
The heart of this show is not simply who sits the Iron Throne. It is what happens when grief, inheritance, family resentment, prophecy, political power and self-mythology become impossible to separate from one another.
That is why our conversations tend to move beyond simple plot recap. We want to know why Rhaenyra makes the choice she makes, what Alicent needs to believe about herself, why Daemon keeps discovering that power cannot solve the thing actually hurting him, why Aegon and Aemond understand legitimacy so differently, and what the story is saying when another person convinces themselves that a dragon will solve an emotional problem.
Sometimes the answer is profound.
Sometimes the answer is that somebody has made an absolutely bananas decision while standing next to a giant fire-breathing animal.
Both are worth discussing.
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October 20, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 8, “The Lord Of The Tides,” where Viserys saves Rhaenyra, Daemon kills Vaemond, the family shares one last dinner, and one misunderstood prophecy dooms the peace.
We discuss why the characters are finally starting to feel true to the story, the irony in King Viserys’ final night, and why the dragon keepers need to invest in Shout sticks…
October 15, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 7, “Driftmark,” where Aemond claims Vhagar, Lucerys takes his eye, Alicent snaps, Laenor escapes, and the children pay in blood for their parents’ lies.
We discuss the validity of the show holding the twist from you, why the night scenes look so…odd, and why Mary always gets her christmas shopping done BEFORE Halloween(!)…
September 30, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 6, “The Princess And The Queen,” where the time jump turns Rhaenyra’s children into evidence, Alicent into open opposition, Laena into tragedy, and motherhood into war.
We discuss the effectiveness of the time jump, how two characters go from 0 – 100 real quick, and why Viserys totally has dragon stick figures on the back of his carriage…
September 20, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 5, “We Light The Way,” where Alicent wears green, Criston snaps, Daemon murders Rhea Royce, Viserys collapses, and a royal wedding becomes a war cry.
We discuss the need-for and burden-of chaos, rat imagery, and why Mary has put on a green dress and called her banner men to arms!
September 16, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake chat about House Of The Dragon Episode 1.04 – “King Of The Narrow Sea”.
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 4, “King Of The Narrow Sea,” where Daemon returns, Rhaenyra claims desire, Criston crosses a line, Otto falls, and private choices become public evidence.
September 7, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 3, “Second Of His Name,” where Aegon’s name day pressures Rhaenyra’s claim, the white hart appears, Daemon becomes a myth, and Viserys’ legacy starts turning into a trap.
We discuss the the theme of legacy for Daemon and Viserys, why the visual language of the open was vintage GOT, and who we think is the Lady Whistledown of the Targaryen court…
We discuss the “big breath in”, why Aethelhelm is right (from a certain point of view), and why Finan is totally a Gilmore Girls fan…
August 30, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 2, “The Rogue Prince,” where Daemon steals a dragon egg, Rhaenyra proves herself at Dragonstone, Viserys chooses Alicent, and the order of things starts creating the next war.
In this episode, why we think there are such low stakes right now, how the kingdom has suffered because of “the order of things” and why Ser Cristan Cole is Pearl Jam guy — but only the early stuff…
August 23, 2022
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon
Mary & Blake recap and review House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 1, “The Heirs Of The Dragon,” where Viserys names Rhaenyra heir, Aemma dies, Daemon crosses a line, and the family wound that starts the Dance begins.
In this episode, we chat the argument between prologues or being thrown into a show, why the show invites comparison to Game Of Thrones through visual language and writing itself, why NOT having archetypes can sometimes be a bad thing, and why were are soooooo frakking happy to be back in Westeros…
June 11, 2019
Blake
House Of The Dragon With Mary & Blake: A Podcast For House Of The Dragon, The North Remembers
Hosts Mary & Blake discuss the Game Of Thrones documentary, and...