The big television news of the week has been the fantastic conclusion of the first season of The House of the Dragon, which has left things at the top and generating enormous expectations among its viewers. The Game of Thrones comparisons have been there since day one, especially considering the massive success of the original series despite its disappointing close. This being the case, now the time has come to take stock and the truth is that the The first season of The House of the Dragon has lived up to that of Game of Thronesat least according to the ratings of the fans in the portal specialized in cinema and series IMDb.
As you may already know, on this website you can not only rate a series, but also each of the episodes individually. In this way, we have added the scores of all the episodes of the first season of Game of Thrones and The House of the Dragon and we have divided it by the number of episodes to obtain the average score. The result is surprising. Following this formula, the first season of Game of Thrones gets an average grade of 8.97while that of The House of the Dragon stays in a more than worthy 8.8. By way of comparison and without any intention of drawing blood, the first installment of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power would get a 7’25 with this method, very far from the previous two.
When it comes to the highest rated episodes, The House of the Dragon has seen a rise in popularity in its final stretch. The episode 8, Lord of the Tidesis he best rated in the series with a 9.4. The black queen, the tenth and final, has a 9.3. The podium is closed by Mercaderiva, seventh, with a 9.2. Now it only remains to be seen if The House of the Dragon will be able to continue this upward trajectory with its second season, which does not yet have a scheduled release date.