A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026)
Action/Drama/TV HBO/Sky Atlantic Spoiler Free A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has been described as a comedy. It isn’t. It’s no more or less funny than its parent show Game of Thrones, which is to say it has a sense of humour; but so do The Sopranos, The Wire and even Oz. It just depends on your sense of humour. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is what I’m led to believe the book is, a short story from the Game of Thrones world. That’s no bad thing, or rather could be no bad thing. A “hedge Knight” (Knight without a house’s banner to back him), who is faking it till he makes it, Duncan (Peter Claffey), wandering a bit lost after squiring the recently deceased Ser Arlan, meets an odd and enthusiastic bald kid called Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) and tries to enter and survive a regional tourney. If you don’t know what any of that means, it doesn’t really matter, the show doesn’t need you to be au fait with Westerosy lexicon to get involved. If you’ve seen Brian Helgeland’s fantastically fun A K...
