The massively mounted ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel series ‘House of the Dragon’ started streaming exactly one month back on HBO Max and in India on the Disney+ Hotstar OTT platform. The show’s fifth episode is out now on both these streaming platforms and has garnered a lot of critical acclaim and audience appreciation.
‘House of the Dragon’ episode-5 titled ‘We Light the Way’ started streaming on 19th September and as of now, the episode boasts of a fantastic IMDb user rating of 9.1/10 based on around 23k votes.
So, this makes episode-5 the show’s highest rated episode so far on IMDb. ‘House of the Dragon’ will have a total of ten episodes for Season-1. While E1, E2, E3, and E4 of the ‘House of the Dragon’ series currently hold IMDb user ratings of 8.7, 8.4, 8.8, and 8.6, respectively. Presently, the overall IMDb rating for the show is 8.7/10.
And as far as ‘House of the Dragon’ viewership is concerned, Episode-5 has purportedly registered a 3% increase from US-based viewers compared to Episode-4. The show now boasts of a whopping overall average of 29 million viewers per episode for the first five episodes.
Now, all eyes will now be on the remaining five episodes of ‘House of the Dragon’ and whether they can manage an upward trend as far as critics’ and user ratings are concerned. Interestingly, the series will witness a major time jump from episode-6 and accordingly the story and the characters will also mark a significant shift from the next week.
The ‘House of the Dragon’ series is based on George R. R. Martin’s 2018 fantasy novel ‘Fire & Blood’ and the goings-on takes place around two centuries before the events of ‘Game of Thrones’ and revolves around the beginning of the end of House Targaryen.