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House of the Dragon Showrunner Ryan Condal Responds to Criticism of the Season 1 Finale
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House of the Dragon Showrunner Ryan Condal Responds to Criticism of the Season 1 Finale

Not many media outlets made one particular criticism of the House of the Dragon season finale, but RETRO and Variety did. Now showrunner Ryan Condal responds—and it’s as defensive as you might expect.

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ABOVE: Ryan Condal.

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Ryan Condal did a great job on the first season of House of the Dragon—until he didn’t.

RETRO covered the concering season finale here, raising a serious and potentially Season 2–impacting narrative framing error that didn’t seem to be part of the major media response to the season finale elsewhere. Then Variety, a leading …

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