Home of the Dragon faces backlash over scenes which might be too darkish

HBO’s Home of the Dragon is nicely underway with offering viewers some content material for his or her craving of Recreation of Thrones-related urge for food. And historical past appears to be repeating in an fascinating manner with episode 7 of the Recreation of Thrones spin-off. Within the last season of Thrones, viewers complained in regards to the watching circumstances for the battle scenes that befell at the hours of darkness for the episode, The Lengthy Night time. 

In episode 7 of Home of the Dragon, Selection experiences that the sequence confronted backlash as viewers had additionally deemed this newest episode to be “unwatchable” in the course of the evening scenes. Joanna Robinson, a author and podcaster for The Ringer, had given a warning previous to episode air, “Watch it with all of the drapes closed,” in addition to flip the brightness setting of your tv up on excessive. When HBO acquired a grievance from a fan stating HBO wants “to concern a written apology for actually an entire episode of black display screen,” the assistance account for HBO merely responded, “We respect you reaching out a few evening scene in ‘Home of the Dragon’ Episode 7 showing darkish in your display screen.”

Official social media accounts for the present have defended the scenes as finished deliberately as a artistic resolution. The episode’s director, Miguel Sapochnik, had additionally directed The Lengthy Night time episode of Recreation of Thrones and lately said, “It made sense that this was the final hope humanity has, the final beacon of sunshine, and from the attitude of the place we wanted the story to go — which was to succeed in a surreal, chaotic climax — we wanted an atmosphere that was pleasant to that. So all the explanations for doing it have been there, and no person sat there and puzzled if it was gonna be too darkish.”

Home of the Dragon will be seen on HBO and streamed on HBO Max each Sunday evening at 9 pm ET.