House of the Dragon’ Episode 7 Recap: Ruling Westeros? Child’s Play

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Being surprised: a mixed bag, it turns out. There’s a certain thrill, in this landscape of endless streaming and must-watch television, when a show shocks you; a moment to sit back, eyes wide open, and exclaim, “I can’t believe they did that.” On the other hand, we’ve become so accustomed to adult-rated TV, so inured to the blood-drenched weddings and deadly South Korean game shows, that it takes something really startling to prompt that emotion these days. Which leads us to House of the Dragon’s seventh episode, ‘Driftmark’, where a child viciously slashes another child’s face and cuts his eye out. Event television!