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House of the Dragon’s Identical-Face-Off Deserves a Second Look


The Cargyll twins slash their way across the thin line between tragedy and comedy.

Director Clare Kilner adds tension to this sequence through Arryk assuming his brother’s identity and then taking a long walk through Dragonstone, past serving staff who ignore him and attendees who are busy replacing the map table’s candles. We know that the Red Keep staff leaked info to Mysaria back when she was a Flea Bottom power player known as the White Worm; training for and loyalty among those King’s Landing servants didn’t seem so hot. This woman is so good at her job that she doesn’t even drop the tray of Rhaenyra’s sleeping draught when an assassin bursts into the queen’s private quarters.

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