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‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 2 Deep Dive

Joanna and Mal bestow the award for the episode’s Faceless Man and speculate what’s coming next in the series

By Joanna Robinson and Mallory Rubin
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Gods be good—Joanna and Mal return to discuss the second episode of House of the Dragon! They offer thoughts on the episode when they Rally the Realm (04:52). Then, they head to the Dragon Pit and dive deep into the episode (08:28). Later, they bestow the award for the episode’s Faceless Man (02:40:14) and engage in book spoilers and future-episode speculation (02:43:01).

Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory Rubin
Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman
Social: Jomi Adeniran
Addition Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal

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