Television

8.4Skry

House of the Dragon

2022

Set roughly two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones, this prequel series is structured as a slow-burn succession drama — the kind where the catastrophe is visible long before anyone can stop it. Martin and Condal build the conflict through court procedure rather than battlefield spectacle: a king's naming of his daughter as heir, the son who follows, and the factions that crystallize around both. With fifteen dragons in service to one house, the Targaryen dynasty arrives at peak power and begins, almost immediately, to fracture along dynastic lines. The show works as political theater, positioning Matt Smith and an ensemble of rival claimants inside an institution that's eating itself.

7.8Skry

Lanterns

2026

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe

2026

A comic book store owner who accidentally fractures the multiverse into competing realities is not the obvious choice to fix it — which is more or less the structural engine here. Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady build the show as a high-concept farce held inside a deliberately small-scale world: Stuart Bloom, familiar from years as a recurring presence in The Big Bang Theory, now carries the premise rather than supporting it. The comedy runs on that mismatch — catastrophic stakes, deeply provisional hero — while the quantum-interference MacGuffin gives the season something to chase through whatever realities it needs to visit.